Apple vs. Microsoft Financial Ratio Dashboard

A side-by-side view of liquidity, leverage, efficiency, and profitability ratios built from the provided ratio analysis export.

Liquidity leader
Leverage leader
Efficiency leader
Profitability balance
Balance-sheet profile

Microsoft shows the stronger short-term coverage position and the lighter leverage profile in this dataset. It leads all three liquidity ratios and all four leverage measures once lower debt intensity is treated as favorable.

Apple Microsoft
Operating efficiency

Apple is more efficient on asset turnover and receivables turnover, while Microsoft posts the faster inventory turnover figure. The efficiency category therefore stays close, with Apple ahead on two of three measures.

Profitability pattern

Microsoft delivers stronger gross, operating, and net margins. Apple counters with higher return metrics, posting stronger ROA, ROE, and ROIC, which leaves profitability split evenly between margin strength and return intensity.

Category win count overview
Each bar counts how many ratios each company leads within a category. Higher is better for most ratios; lower is favorable for debt-to-equity, debt-to-assets, and equity multiplier.
Liquidity ratios
Dumbbell markers place Apple and Microsoft side by side on each ratio so the spread is easy to read without splitting the comparison across multiple charts.
Leverage ratios
Log scale is used here because interest coverage and leverage ratios span very different magnitudes.
Efficiency ratios
Log scale keeps turnover ratios comparable even though inventory turnover is much larger than asset turnover.
Profitability ratios
Profitability values are shown as percentages for a cleaner read across margins and return measures.
Ratio comparison table
Exact values for every ratio used in the comparison charts.
Category Ratio Apple Microsoft Leader