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If Wilma's Widgets, Inc., earns $5 million after taxes and makes $10 million in sales, what is its net profit margin?
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50 percent. Net profit margin is earnings after taxes divided by sales. In the case of Wilma's Widgets, Inc., that amounts to 0.5, or 50 percent.
2.
You will find a company's audited financial statements in its ________.
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Annual report. The annual report contains audited confirmations of its financial statements.
3.
Taxes are among the expenditures on an income statement.
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True. Taxes are subtracted from income.
4.
If a company with a beta of 3.0 is expected to get a return of 15 percent, what can we expect the return of the overall market to be?
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5 percent. A beta of three indicates three times the earnings possibility of the overall market. Thus, the overall market's return would be only one-third that of our company.
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A company's book value is _______.
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The value of its assets minus liabilites. Book value is the value of a company's assets.
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Low earnings can make a price/earnings ratio very high. This fact may not mean that the company is overvalued. Instead, there may simply be an industrywide ________.
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Recession. A recession may lower earnings.
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A high inventory turnover ratio indicates that _______.
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A company is managing its inventory efficiently. It is a measure of a company's success with inventory.