Each answers a unique question:
1. Balance Sheet: What’s your net worth?
2. Income Statement: Are you profitable?
3. Cash Flow Statement: Are you generating cash?
How to analyze a:
▪️Balance Sheet
▪️Income Statement
▪️Cash Flow Statement
In less than 5 minutes:
Each answers a unique question:
1. Balance Sheet: What’s your net worth?
2. Income Statement: Are you profitable?
3. Cash Flow Statement: Are you generating cash?
Each views a company’s financials from a different angle.
When combined, they provide a more complete view of a company’s true financial position.
1⃣ Cash & Equivalents: How much?
2⃣ Debt: How much vs. cash?
3⃣ Goodwill: How much?
4⃣ Retained Earnings (+ T.S.): Positive?
5⃣ Receivables & Inventory: How much?
1⃣Cash & Equivalents: More than debt
2⃣Short & Long-Debt: None
3⃣Goodwill: Zero
4⃣Retained Earnings (+ T.S.): Positive
5⃣ Receivables & Inventory: None
This tells you if a company is “profitable” or not during a period of time
Layout:
What I focus on first:
1⃣Revenue: Up or down?
2⃣Gross Profit: Up or down?
3⃣EPS (Diluted): Positive or negative?
4⃣Shares Outstanding: Up or down?
5⃣Operating Expenses: Up or down?
1⃣Revenue: Up 30%+
2⃣Gross Profit: Up 30%+
3⃣EPS: Up 30%+
4⃣Shares Outstanding: Down 4%+
5⃣Operating Expenses: Stable
This tells you how cash moves in and out of a business over a period of time.
Layout:
1⃣OCF: Positive or negative?
2⃣CapEx: More or less than OCF?
3⃣NCC: Any big numbers? S.B.C.?
4⃣Stock: Issuance or buybacks?
5⃣Debt: Borrow or repay?
1⃣ OCF: Positive (+ Growing)
2⃣CapEx: Much less than OCF
3⃣NCC: Nothing noteworthy + Low SBC
4⃣Stock: Buybacks ✅
5⃣Debt: Repayment✅
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Read this thread I wrote about the cash flow statement next:
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If you pick stocks, you MUST learn how to read a Cash Flow Statement.
— Brian Feroldi (\U0001f9e0,\U0001f4c8) (@BrianFeroldi) September 11, 2022
Here\u2019s everything you need to know:
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Everyone knows Apple, Amazon, Microsoft...
But how do you find the next $AFRM, $PLTR, or $USPT early?
Here are 9 GREAT resources for finding stock ideas (8 of them are FREE):
1: ETFs
Look through the holdings of high-growth ETFs
Google the ETF symbol and “holdings”
These are worth cracking open:
▪️ $ARKF / $ARKG / $ARKK / $ARKW
▪️ $FFTY
▪️ $HACK
▪️ $IZRL
▪️ $TMFC
2: Fund Managers
Type a fund you respect into @Whalewisdom
You can see all their holding and get emails of any changes
These funds are worth tracking:
▪️AKre Capital
▪️AKO Capital
▪️Dorsey Asset
▪️Fundsmith
▪️Polen Capital
More
3: Newly Public Companies
▪️Direct Listings
▪️IPOs
▪️SPACs
Are a great idea source
Helpful resources:
▪️ https://t.co/jJW01WpJQh
▪️
4. Screeners
@Finviz is great for screening by sector/industry
@Stockcard is great for screening by themes (like the mega-trends listed below)
But how do you find the next $AFRM, $PLTR, or $USPT early?
Here are 9 GREAT resources for finding stock ideas (8 of them are FREE):
1: ETFs
Look through the holdings of high-growth ETFs
Google the ETF symbol and “holdings”
These are worth cracking open:
▪️ $ARKF / $ARKG / $ARKK / $ARKW
▪️ $FFTY
▪️ $HACK
▪️ $IZRL
▪️ $TMFC
2: Fund Managers
Type a fund you respect into @Whalewisdom
You can see all their holding and get emails of any changes
These funds are worth tracking:
▪️AKre Capital
▪️AKO Capital
▪️Dorsey Asset
▪️Fundsmith
▪️Polen Capital
More
Here are some of the big investors that track:
— Brian Feroldi (@BrianFeroldi) February 17, 2021
Altarock Partners
AKO Capital
Appaloosa
Akre Capital
Broad Run
Dorsey Asset
Duquense
Ensemble
Fundsmith
Polen Capital
Third Point
Here are their current top 10 holdings (in order) and links to their latest buys/sells \u2b07\ufe0f
3: Newly Public Companies
▪️Direct Listings
▪️IPOs
▪️SPACs
Are a great idea source
Helpful resources:
▪️ https://t.co/jJW01WpJQh
▪️
4. Screeners
@Finviz is great for screening by sector/industry
@Stockcard is great for screening by themes (like the mega-trends listed below)
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Microorganisms in biofilms are enclosed by an extracellular matrix that confers protection and improves survival. Previous studies have shown that viruses can secondarily colonize preexisting biofilms, and viral biofilms have also been described.
...we raise the perspective that CoVs can persistently infect bats due to their association with biofilm structures. This phenomenon potentially provides an optimal environment for nonpathogenic & well-adapted viruses to interact with the host, as well as for viral recombination.
Biofilms can also enhance virion viability in extracellular environments, such as on fomites and in aquatic sediments, allowing viral persistence and dissemination.
Viruses and other pathogens are often studied as stand-alone entities, despite that, in nature, they mostly live in multispecies associations called biofilms—both externally and within the host.
https://t.co/FBfXhUrH5d
Microorganisms in biofilms are enclosed by an extracellular matrix that confers protection and improves survival. Previous studies have shown that viruses can secondarily colonize preexisting biofilms, and viral biofilms have also been described.
...we raise the perspective that CoVs can persistently infect bats due to their association with biofilm structures. This phenomenon potentially provides an optimal environment for nonpathogenic & well-adapted viruses to interact with the host, as well as for viral recombination.
Biofilms can also enhance virion viability in extracellular environments, such as on fomites and in aquatic sediments, allowing viral persistence and dissemination.
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I like this heuristic, and have a few which are similar in intent to it:
Hiring efficiency:
How long does it take, measured from initial expression of interest through offer of employment signed, for a typical candidate cold inbounding to the company?
What is the *theoretical minimum* for *any* candidate?
How long does it take, as a developer newly hired at the company:
* To get a fully credentialed machine issued to you
* To get a fully functional development environment on that machine which could push code to production immediately
* To solo ship one material quanta of work
How long does it take, from first idea floated to "It's on the Internet", to create a piece of marketing collateral.
(For bonus points: break down by ambitiousness / form factor.)
How many people have to say yes to do something which is clearly worth doing which costs $5,000 / $15,000 / $250,000 and has never been done before.
Here's how I'd measure the health of any tech company:
— Jeff Atwood (@codinghorror) October 25, 2018
How long, as measured from the inception of idea to the modified software arriving in the user's hands, does it take to roll out a *1 word copy change* in your primary product?
Hiring efficiency:
How long does it take, measured from initial expression of interest through offer of employment signed, for a typical candidate cold inbounding to the company?
What is the *theoretical minimum* for *any* candidate?
How long does it take, as a developer newly hired at the company:
* To get a fully credentialed machine issued to you
* To get a fully functional development environment on that machine which could push code to production immediately
* To solo ship one material quanta of work
How long does it take, from first idea floated to "It's on the Internet", to create a piece of marketing collateral.
(For bonus points: break down by ambitiousness / form factor.)
How many people have to say yes to do something which is clearly worth doing which costs $5,000 / $15,000 / $250,000 and has never been done before.