The most common time periods are:
▪️1 Quarter
▪️1 Year
▪️Year-to-date (usually 6 or 9 months)
The time period is at the top. Here's $NFLX recent cash flow statement time period.
Accounting is the language of business.
If you buy stocks, you MUST learn how to read a Cash Flow Statement.
Here’s everything you need to know:
The most common time periods are:
▪️1 Quarter
▪️1 Year
▪️Year-to-date (usually 6 or 9 months)
The time period is at the top. Here's $NFLX recent cash flow statement time period.
You can find the cash flow statement by looking at:
▪️10-Q (Quarterly Report)
▪️10-K (Annual Report)
▪️Fnancial aggregators such as @theTIKR,
@CMLviz, @themotleyfool, @YahooFinance
1. Operating Activities
2. Investing Activities
3. Financing Activities
Companies get some leeway with how they breakout each segment, but they all follow this basic structure.
This segment STARTS with net income (the bottom number of the Income Statement).
It shows cash movements from all normal operational business activities.
Common categories:
▪️Depreciation: Value of asset decreasing over time
▪️Amortization: Expensing a pre-paid cost over time
▪️Stock-Based Comp: Paying employees with equity
Categories:
▪️Accounts Receivable: Sales that haven't been collected yet
▪️Accounts Payable: Bills that haven't been paid yet
▪️Inventory: Value of product you haven’t sold yet
Think of this number like a company’s Net Income, but in actual cash.
The shows the cash gains and losses from investments the business has made.
▪️Capital Expenditure (CAPEX): Money spent to acquire/maintain physical assets such as property, plants, buildings, or equipment.
▪️Acquisitions: buying another company
▪️Proceeds from sale of investments: Cash recieved from selling CAPEX or acquisitions
FCF is the cash that is left after a company has paid for its Operating Expenses and CAPEX.
Many investors (myself included) consider this to be a superior way to calculate a company’s actual profitability.
This measures the cash movements between a company and its owners (shareholders) and its creditors (bondholders).
▪️Debt: Cash gained/lost from borrowing/repaying debt
▪️Stock: Cash gained/lost from issuing/repurchasing stock
▪️Dividends: Cash payments to shareholders
Its shows:
1⃣Sum of Operating Activities + Investing Activities + Financing Activities
2⃣Starting Cash Balance
3⃣Ending Cash Balance
Watching an example is VERY helpful
@brian_stoffel_ and I made a YouTube video about the cash flow statement that uses $NFLX as an example
Watch it here: https://t.co/VdpwQq7SYu
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3/ @annieduke on category
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Get a cup of coffee.
In this thread, I'll walk you through the basics of leverage -- in our personal lives and in the companies we invest in. pic.twitter.com/9MilmwE9f7
2/ @aaronbush100 on 20 semi-controversial investing
20 semi-controversial investing beliefs [THREAD]:
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3/ @annieduke on category
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4/ @awilkinson on losing
This is a story about how I lost $10,000,000 by doing something stupid.
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Ten. Million. Dollars.
Literally up in smoke. Money bonfire.
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Other insinuations and suggestions in the review seem wildly off the mark, distorted, or inappropriate-- for example, that the book is clickbaity (it is scholarly) or conservative (hardly) or connected to the events at the Capitol (give me a break). 3/x
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As someone\u2019s who\u2019s read the book, this review strikes me as tremendously unfair. It mostly faults Adler for not writing the book the reviewer wishes he had! https://t.co/pqpt5Ziivj
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2. Workbook
3. When to sell options
4. Diff category of days
5. How movement of option prices tell us what will happen
1. Keeps following volatility super closely.
Makes 7-8 different strategies to give him a sense of what's going on.
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He believes in a market operator, if market mover sells volatility Sarang Sir joins him.
4. Theta decay vs Fall in vega
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2. Workbook
3. When to sell options
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1. Keeps following volatility super closely.
Makes 7-8 different strategies to give him a sense of what's going on.
Whichever gives highest profit he trades in.
I am quite different from your style. I follow the market's volatility very closely. I have mock positions in 7-8 different strategies which allows me to stay connected. Whichever gives best profit is usually the one i trade in.
— Sarang Sood (@SarangSood) August 13, 2019
2. Theta falls when market moves.
Falls where market is headed towards not on our original position.
Anilji most of the time these days Theta only falls when market moves. So the Theta actually falls where market has moved to, not where our position was in the first place. By shifting we can come close to capturing the Theta fall but not always.
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This week has been great so far. The main aim is to be in the right side of the volatility, rest the market will reward.
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