Financial Analysis
What Three Years of a Cash Flow Statement Reveals That One Year Hides
Profit is an opinion, cash is a fact, and one year of cash flow is a snapshot. It takes three years for the snapshot to become a story.
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Statements, ratios, cash flow, and valuation, with the traps inside them.
Profit is an opinion, cash is a fact, and one year of cash flow is a snapshot. It takes three years for the snapshot to become a story.
Return on equity is one number, but it is built from three. Until you split it apart, a high ROE and a fragile ROE look exactly the same.
A high P/E is not a verdict of "expensive." It is a sentence the market is speaking about the future, and learning to read that sentence is where valuation actually begins.