Online Financial Ratios Analysis Lessons

 
 

Online Financial Ratios Analysis Lessons

Financial ratios highlight the strength and weakness of a company and help you to evaluate a business for making better investment decisions.

Financial ratios can be further divided into six main categories namely accounting based financial ratios, management efficiency ratios, profitability ratios, risk and debt ratios, liquidity ratios and operation efficiency ratio, the rest are group under other ratios session. There listed all the financial ratios sample for your reference.

Accounting based financial ratios such as net tangible asset backing (NTAB) or Book Value (BV), Price to book value (P/BV) and prince per earning ratio (PE) tell you how much the business it worth (NTAB) and the the premium (P/BV) you have to pay for it compare to the book value. PE ratio tell you how much you have to pay for the stock price compare to the current profitability of the company.

Bankruptcy index or Z score, gearing or leveraging and debt ratios such as debt to asset ratio, interest coverage ratio and long term debt to shareholder's equity ratio are all group under Risk and debt or leveraging ratio.

Cash ratio, quick ratio, current ratio and inventory to net working capital are categorized under liquidity ratio. Liquidity ratio measure how good a company to pay off it short term obligations from cash or current assets.

Management efficiency ratios such as return on investment (ROI) and return on equity (ROE) provide information about how good the company business return express in net income compare the invested assets (ROE) or invested shareholder's equity.