Help compare the financial ratios listed for Apple Inc and Alphabet Inc

Help compare the financial ratios

Please review the following ratios for both Apple and Alphabet:

* Accounts Receivable Turnover

* Return on Assets

* Asset Turnover

* Inventory Turnover

* Average Collection Period

* Days in Inventory

* Times Interest Earned

* Debt to Asset (for Apple)

* Free Cash Flow (for Apple)

* Note: Earnings per Share:

o Apple - $9.27

o Alphabet - $18.27

You did not show the calculations so I'm not sure how to guide you with some of your figures. Please know that I posted check figures for Alphabet in the Announcements and I would review the last two weeks recordings of our weekly huddle where I walk you through some of these figures.

Alphabet, Inc. Check Figures

· EPS (12/31/2017) = $18.27

· Current ratio = 5.14

· Gross (Profit) Margin Percentage = 58.9%

· Rate of Return (Net Profit Margin) on Sales = 11.4%

· Inventory Turnover = 89.6

· Days’ inventory outstanding (DIO) = 4 days

· Accounts Receivable Turnover = 6.8

· Days’ sales outstanding = 53.5 days

· Asset turnover = 0.61

· Rate of return on total assets (ROA) = 6.9%

· Debt Ratio = 22.7%

· Times-Interest Earned ratio = 250.5

· Dividend Yield on Common Stock = 0.0%

This ratio might change based on the date you picked for the dividend per share of common stock 

· Rate of Return on Common Stockholder’ Equity (ROE) = 8.7%

· Free cash flow = $23,907 in millions

· Price/Earnings Ratio = 57

Below is the link for the financial statements for Apple Inc. for the fiscal year ending 2017.

https://investor.apple.com/investor-relations/default.aspx (Links to an external site.)

Below is the link for the financial statements for Alphabet, Inc. for the fiscal year ending 2017.

https://abc.xyz/investor/previous/#numbersLink (Links to an external site.)