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01 — The order

Read it in this order. Valuation last.

Most people open a company page, glance at the P/E ratio, compare it to a number they half-remember, and decide. That is starting at the end. A ratio is meaningless until you know what is underneath it.

  1. Revenue. Is the business selling more than it used to? Everything else is a refinement of this question. A company can improve margins for a while without growing, but not forever.
  2. Margins. Is the growth profitable, and is that profitability stable or drifting? Compare the company to its own history rather than to companies in other industries — margin norms differ enormously between a software business and a grocer, and cross-industry comparison mostly generates false conclusions.
  3. Operating cash flow against net income. This is the check almost nobody runs and it is the most revealing one on the page. If profit is rising while cash is not, something in the accounting is doing work the business is not.
  4. Debt. Not whether it exists — most healthy companies carry some — but whether the business could service it through a bad year. Debt turns an ordinary downturn into an existential one.
  5. Only now, the P/E. By this point you know what kind of earnings you are putting a multiple on, which is the only way the multiple means anything.
This is the course, compressed

Each of those steps is a stage of Fundamental Analysis — income statement, balance sheet and cash flow, valuation, then moats and management. The free Fundamentals page covers the same ground with sector data.

02 — The common mistake

Year-over-year. Never quarter-to-quarter.

When the financials tab shows you quarterly figures, compare each quarter to the same quarter a year earlier — not to the quarter immediately before it.

Almost every business is seasonal. A retailer's fourth quarter will beat its third every single year, in good years and bad. Comparing them measures the calendar, not the company. This is the single most common way people misread an earnings report, and it produces confident conclusions in both directions: false alarm and false comfort.

The same caution applies to any one-off item sitting inside a quarter — a legal settlement, an asset sale, a restructuring charge. A single unusual line can make a flat year look like a collapse or a boom. If a number moves sharply and you cannot name why, you have not finished reading.

Earnings, as they land

Who reports today, who reports tomorrow.

Companies above $2bn. Today's tab fills in through the session — estimate first, then the actual beside it — and everything drops into Just reported once the day ends.

Tomorrow is for preparation: look a company up in the box at the top of this page before its numbers land, so you arrive with a view of the business rather than a reaction to a single quarter of it. Today is where the answer shows up — actual EPS and actual revenue against what analysts expected, and the gap between them.

Treat that gap carefully. A beat is a company doing better than a forecast, which is not the same as a company doing well, and estimates get quietly revised downward in the weeks before a report often enough that clearing a lowered bar can look like strength. Watch the two lines together, too: EPS can beat while revenue misses, which usually means costs came out rather than customers came in — a different quarter than the headline suggests. Read the release, not just the surprise column, and remember the year-over-year rule above applies to every figure in it.

Tap a ticker in any table to load that company into the lookup at the top of the page. Tap a column heading to sort by it.

Withdrawn. This showed the earnings calendar. It came from a source whose licence does not permit us to republish it, so we took it down rather than publish a number we cannot show a right to publish. We would rather have a gap here than a figure we cannot stand behind. The rest of this page runs on public-domain government data and is unchanged.

03 — The gauge

What the technical dial is, honestly.

The technical analysis gauge on this page aggregates several indicators — moving averages and oscillators computed from recent price — and averages them into one reading from strong sell to strong buy. It is worth being clear about what that is.

It contains no information about the business. It has not read a filing. It has no view on whether the price is reasonable relative to what the company earns. It is a summary of what price has recently done, expressed with more confidence than the underlying method supports.

That is not the same as saying it is useless. Knowing whether something has been trending is legitimate information, and momentum has real academic support as a broad statistical tendency. The error the gauge invites is reading a single needle position as a recommendation about one specific company. Several indicators agreeing is not several pieces of evidence — they are largely computing the same thing from the same price data. We take that apart properly on the free Technical Analysis page, and in more depth in the Technical Analysis course.

04 — What is missing

The page cannot show you the important part.

Everything on this dashboard is a number in a database. The things that most reliably determine whether a company is worth owning are not.

A moat — some durable reason competitors cannot simply copy the business — does not appear in any field here. Being well known is not a moat; being able to charge thirty per cent more than an equivalent product is. Neither does management quality, meaning whether the people running it allocate capital sensibly or build empires with shareholder money.

Nor does customer concentration, a patent expiry, a pending case, or a regulator taking an interest. All of it sits in the filings, and reading them is the actual work. That is what Fundamental Analysis teaches, and the economic conditions those companies operate inside are Economics.

One last thing, and it is the one that costs people the most money: by the time you have spent an hour on a company you will want your research to have been worth something. That pressure is real, it is well documented, and it is why disciplined investors write down what would change their mind before they start — a habit built in Trading Psychology.

05 — Keep going

Where to go from here.

06 — Questions

Common questions.

What order should I read a company's financials in?

Revenue, then margins, then operating cash flow against net income, then debt, then — last — the P/E. Valuation is the final question because a ratio means nothing until you know what is underneath it.

Why does the P/E come last?

Because earnings can be flattered, depressed by a one-off, or produced by a business in structural decline. A low P/E on a shrinking company is not cheap, it is correctly priced.

Year-over-year or quarter-over-quarter?

Year-over-year — this quarter against the same quarter last year. Almost every business is seasonal, so sequential comparisons mostly measure the calendar. It is the most common way earnings reports get misread.

What does the technical gauge mean?

It is a mechanical average of several price-derived indicators. It has no information about the business and no view on valuation. It summarizes what price recently did, which is not a forecast.

How do I look up a non-US stock?

Plain tickers work for major US listings — AAPL, MSFT, SPY. Otherwise use the exchange-prefixed form: NYSE:BRK.B, LSE:TSCO, BINANCE:BTCUSDT.

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