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Financial Analysis of Husky Injection Molding Systems Ltd.

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global supplier as well as information regarding the companys recent acquisition of an unsecured line of credit in the amount of $74 million. CURRENT INFORMATION Husky Injection Molding Systems  Limited is based in Canada with facilities in the United States, Luxembourg and Japan. This month the company was able to close on a "$74 million committed, unsecured, multi-currency  revolving credit facility with four Canadian banks" (Husky, 2002, PG) and the Luxembourg subsidiary has also established a "Euro 10 million committed, unsecured revolving credit facility with Dexia Banque Internationale  ? Luxembourg" (Husky, 2002, PG). These will serve to address the companys credit requirements through the fall of 2003. Husky Ltd. has more than forty sales and service centers  with customers in well over one hundred countries. Of the more than $20 billion injection molding equipment market Husky controls a substantial portion, being one of the largest suppliers globally.  FINANCIAL ANALYSIS With more than $640 million in worldwide sales for the fiscal year ended in 2001, Husky is maintaining a high profile in their market segment. Based  on the quarter ending in April 2002, some of the following financial ratios will give the student a good idea of the stability of this company. Using assets, earnings and  dividends, the capitalization structure should be analyzed by the student, as this can be helpful information in determining the manner in which a firms assets are financed; that is, the  right-hand side of the balance sheet. Capital structure is normally expressed as the percentage of each type of capital used by the firm such as debt, preferred stock, and  common equity. The gross operating profit per dollar of operating revenue is determined by dividing the gross operating profit by operating revenue. Therefore, Huskys gross profit margin is 18.67