The famous value investor, Mohnish Pabrai , said in one of his lectures that when he visited Warren Buffett, he noticed a huge handbook with the financial statements of thousands of public companies. It's a very dull reading, isn't it? Indeed, if you focus on every statement item - you'll waste a lot of time and sooner or later fall asleep. However, if you look...
In the previous post , we began looking at the Income statement that the company publishes for each quarter and year. The report contains important information about different types of profits : gross profit, operating income, pretax income, and net income. Net income can serve both as a source of further investment in the business and as a source of dividend...
Legendary stock investor Peter Lynch once said that there’s a reason why the majority of people make money in real estate, but not in the stock market. People spend months on finding the right property, whereas in choosing the right stock to invest in, they only spend a few minutes. In this post, I'll be explaining the concepts of: 1) Price Earnings Ratio...