Fundamentals of Corporate Finance
11th Edition
ISBN: 9780077861704
Author: Stephen A. Ross Franco Modigliani Professor of Financial Economics Professor, Randolph W Westerfield Robert R. Dockson Deans Chair in Bus. Admin., Bradford D Jordan Professor
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 3, Problem 21QP
Profit Margin [LO4] In response to complaints about high prices, a grocery chain runs the following advertising campaign: “If you pay your child $1.50 to go buy $50 worth of groceries, then your child makes twice as much on the trip as we do.” You’ve collected the following information from the grocery chain’s financial statements:
| ($ in millions) | |
| Sales | $710 |
| Net income | 10.65 |
| Total assets | 390 |
| Total debt | 280 |
Evaluate the grocery chain’s claim. What is the basis for the statement? Is this claim misleading? Why or why not?
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