A quantitative method was used to explore the financial performance of the firms listed on the Kuwait Stock Exchange. The number of firms explored was 196 out of a possible 206 (two firms are subsidiaries of one of the firms and others are insurance firms excluded from this study). The listed firms were observed from 2009-2014 to understand their status in the market and the direction they were heading towards. The financial data were gathered from the published annual reports of the respective firms and the financial statements from the Kuwait Stock Exchange website. This exploration is a...