The paper is an overview about the Integrated Latin America Market (MILA) until December 2014, including the Mexico Stock Market in the analysis. The papers describes how the market has been developing during the last five years, showing some aspects about the market capitalization, the most traded shares and the S&P MILA Andean 40 index. Besides the paper shows the benefits about the MILA to investors and the relation between the stock exchange index and the exchange rate in those markets, using a correlation model.

This document explains in a simple form the principles related to the calculation and interpretation of the financial ratio analysis, the formulas of the different kinds and the importance in the day-to-day analysis done by the market. All the knowledge provided will be applied in analyzing four Peruvian listed companies from different industries (cement extractor and seller, food, beverages and mining). These four companies were selected using a importance analysis, which was highly related to choose the companies with the most relevant and significant operations to the Lima Stock Exchange and the Peruvian industrial sector between 2012 and 2014.