Making The Minimum Credit Card Payment
As you know, there is a lot of debt in our country and at all levels. Many credit card companies offer large amounts of credit to consumers so long as a relatively small minimum payment is made each month.
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Financial Statements and Their Purposes
Financial statements exist to allow outside investors to know where a company stands financially (Balance Sheet), what the company is producing in the way of return (Income Statement), and how the cash is being managed (Statement of Cash Flows).
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Just Why Is The Balance Sheet So Important?
If you were to look at a lot of companies and their stock prices, you could often conclude that the balance sheet does not seem important at all. I’ve mentioned before that there are numerous companies that sport a healthy stock price while also carrying a negative tangible book value per share. In such cases, future expected earnings must uphold the stock prices because no case can be made from the balance sheets that solid underlying equity support exists.
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Another Semester Coming to a Close
Another college semester is winding down. This semester, I’ve taught a course on how to analyze the financial statements from the lender and investor perspectives relative to financial decisions made by these parties. The students have been wonderful and we have had a very spirited discussion across the term.
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God’s Not Dead
Last week, my wife and I went to see the movie, “God’s Not Dead.” We found that the film dealt with a lot of issues that are very “real-life.” I won’t tell about the film because you might be planning to see it.
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Another Angle on the “Value” of Balance Sheet Investing
Most stock market participants don’t give much attention to the equity of a company, found on its balance sheet, when it comes to setting a value for the company through the present stock price. This is amazing to me since a share of stock represents a share of company equity.
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Stock Share Terminology
As true of a good number of my posts, this post will address a topic that stems from a conversation I very recently had with a book reader via my website e-mail.
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The Income Statement and Balance Sheet Equity
My book, “Choose Stocks Wisely,” is all about the importance of the balance sheet equity (described as Stockholders’ Equity on the balance sheet) toward properly evaluating the quality and worth of a share of common stock. When you buy a share of common stock in a company, you are buying a share of the equity. So, analyzing the balance sheet equity of a company before investing money into that company is not only logical but also essential.
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Common Stock and Preferred Stock
Recently, a reader of my book, “Choose Stocks Wisely,” asked about the difference between common stock and preferred stock since he had come across these two types of stock in books he had read. This is an important issue since some corporate balance sheets have both types of stock listed under Stockholders’ Equity.
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Check Out www.positive-results.net
Please check out the following link that offers information about my book, “Choose Stocks Wisely: A Formula That Produced Amazing Returns”:
http://www.positive-results.net/cgi-bin/rtsys/sbpg/rt_hdln_dsply2.cgi?Autoincrement=000001&value_6=Published%20Authors
Thanks to my very good friend, Jan Herrington, for including me under a list of published authors at her company website.