Current Ratio
The current ratio is the relationship between a company’s current assets and its current liabilities. Remember to calculate the current ratio of a company simply divide…
Why Financial Ratios are important and how to use them
Financial ratios cover the basics of financial analysis: activity, liquidity, solvency, and profitability. But when it comes to understanding a business, you should view these ratios…
Assessing a Company’s Basic Versus Diluted Earnings Per Share
When you analyze a company, you have to do it on two levels: the whole company and the per share. For example, if you decide ABC,…
What is Cash?
The first thing listed under the asset column on the balance sheet is something called current assets. This is where companies list everything that can be…
Why Analysts Rarely Give SELL Ratings
Think back a few years, and you’ll remember some media hype about how a few stocks had been given “sell” ratings by Wall Street sell-side analysts.…
Stock Idea – Cedar Fair L.P. (NYSE: FUN)
Cedar Fair, L.P. (NYSE: FUN) doing business as the Cedar Fair Entertainment Company, is a publicly traded partnership headquartered at its Cedar Point amusement park in…
Why Financial Statements Are Important
Financial Statements (why they are important and what you need to know to make investment decisions). Portfolio managers, financial analysts or anyone that manages money as…
How I Find My Investment Ideas
How I find my investment ideas For starters – remember, I’ve been doing this a long time. Most of my money is set in stable dividend…
Why I Decided To Write A Blog
Hi and Welcome to my blog/site. For years my friends and family have been saying I need to write a blog based on all the financial…
Making Your First Investment
Making your first investment in a (publicly traded company’s) stock Whenever I talk with someone about “buying” stock who has never bought stock before, usually the…
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