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Annual Reports: How to Understand the Financial Picture of any Company
Each April, flimsy paperback “books” wrapped in plastic flood investor mailboxes. Hidden within these darkly covered annual reports is where the rubber meets the road in terms of profitable investing.
Earnings season offers us a deep look into the views of management. We have thousands of Form 10-Ks, which all publicly traded companies file with the SEC, at our disposal. By reading these annual reports, you can uncover awesome opportunities. Equally as important, they can give you clear indicators of when to sell a stock.
A lot of people glaze over when these large packages arrive. But it’s actually an excellent use…
14Aug2008 | Investment U | Comments Off | ContinuedBuyer Beware: Why You Don’t Want to Buy What Wall Street Banks Are Selling
Imagine that you’re the investment director for one of the new sovereign wealth funds (SWFs). A very important guy – you get to invest several hundred billion dollars, with far fewer committees and shareholder interest groups harassing you than if you the head
of U.S. institutions such as CalPERS or TIAA-CREF.
Last winter, you had delegations from all the big banks in New York explaining that
they’d just had this teensy weensy hiccup in subprime mortgages and so were giving you an unparalleled opportunity to buy shares – or convertible bonds – at a modest discount to the market price. You bit and…
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