Financial Ratios
Financial Ratios
Financial Ratios
1. Trend or time-
series analysis: to evaluate company’s
performance over time
2. Cross-
sectional analysis: used to compare co
mpany’s performance to other firms in the
same sector at the same period
industry comparative analysis
2. Return on assets
𝑁𝑒𝑡 𝐼𝑛𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒
Measures the overall effectiveness of management in generatin
g profits with its available assets, also called the return on
investment 𝑇𝑜𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑡𝑠
3. Return on equity
𝑁𝑒𝑡 𝐼𝑛𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒
Measures the return earned on the common stockholders’ inves
tment in the firm 𝐸𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑡𝑦
HOW/ FROM WHERE DO WE CAL
CULATE THE RATIOS?
Sources
1. https://www.investing.com
/
2. https://www.egx.com.eg/e
n/homepage.aspx
3. https://www.nasdaq.com/
4. https://english.mubasher.inf
o/countries/eg
Short Term Liquidity
1. Current ratio
𝑇𝑜𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝑐𝑢𝑟𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑡𝑠
Measures the firm’s ability to cover its short-term obligations 𝑇𝑜𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝑐𝑢𝑟𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑙𝑖𝑎𝑏𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑠
2. Quick ratio
𝑇𝑜𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝑐𝑢𝑟𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑡𝑠 − 𝐼𝑛𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦
A better measure of liquidity using easily converted assets into cash
𝑇𝑜𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝑐𝑢𝑟𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑙𝑖𝑎𝑏𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑠
𝑇𝑜𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝑙𝑖𝑎𝑏𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑠
2. Debt to Equity
𝑇𝑜𝑡𝑎𝑙 Equity