WARREN BUFFETT AND THE INTERPRETATION OF FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

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Warren Buffett is one of the richest men in the world. One of the key components to his multi-billionaire success has been his ability buy companies with a sustainable competitive advantage. Think Coca-Cola, Moody’s or See’s Candy. For this video, we are going to see if we can mimic his success on how to make money, by learning how to identify companies with such a sustainable competitive advantage. More specifically, we are going to learn how to do this by analysing a stock market company’s financial statements - the income statement, the balance sheet and the cash flow statement. This is a top 5 takeaways video of “Warren Buffett and the interpretation of financial statements”, written by Mary Buffett and David Clark.
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Top 5 takeaways from Warren Buffett and the Interpretation of Financial Statements:
00:00 Intro
01:25 1. Consistency is King
03:32 2. What Warren Buffett is Looking for in an Income Statement
05:40 3. What Warren Buffett is Looking for in a Balance Sheet
08:00 4. What Warren Buffett is Looking for in a Cashflow Statement
09:50 5. When to Sell
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TL;DW:
- When you are looking for a business with a durable competitive advantage, the keyword is consistency
- In the income statement, look for consistently growing net earnings and profit margins that consistently beat the competitors
- When observing the balance sheet, remember that the superior business has a high return on capital, that it seldom requires a lot of debt, and that retained earnings typically shows a steady growth
- In the cash flow statement, you want to make sure that the business is producing money for its shareholders, by examining its capital expenditures
- Even a fantastic business should be sold if you need money elsewhere, its competitive advantage is at stake, or if the price tag is at a crazy level
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Great video. Easy to understand, straightforward and no unnecessary information. Thanks.

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Very simplified. Would love to see a video on cash flow statement more in depth! Thank you for the videos!

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It would be really interesting if you could make series of videos suming up the books instead of only the 5 takeaways approach. Nice work so far though, really enjoy the content.

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very nicely compiled.. greatest points to look at the balance sheet. Animation and representation is simply superb.

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That is only the financial side of. It does not address the businesses operations, business quality or market. A quality business will have different attributes.

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Definitely the best KZbin video I've watched on interpreting financial statements👍🏼

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Wow, thank you! Glad you liked it!

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Great share. I am just trying to copy Buffett's style for my portfolio on my channel even if our stocks differ.

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Thank you so much!) We want more videos about fundamentals of the company!

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3:38 income statement 5:48 balance sheet return on net tangible assets little to no long term debt 8:09 cashflow statement capital expenditures lower than 25 good lower than 50 acceptable 9:57 when to sell better investment lose of competitive advantage crazy bull market P/E ratio 40 or higher

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Yes! I want a video on cash flow statements!

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I agree with that. Reading the book too will make you more convinced than a 15 minute video can do.

[@poorinvestor]

i have watched this video over so many times to analyze the stocks I'm about to invest in. thank you for the simplistic explanation!

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Try to read warren Buffett accounting books

[@LimonSqueeZ]

Hey man, I wanted to start off by saying that I appreciate your videos! I'm a little late here obviously, but I wanted to show you this after not being able to replicate the numbers you shared here. I went to Apple's filings on the SEC, and in the 10-K for 2017 it says: "The Company’s capital expenditures were $14.9 billion during 2017." There is an inconsistency here, because on your chart you have around $12.5 billion for Apple's 2017 capital expenditures. I have checked and all of the Capex numbers you have are different than the ones reported directly to the SEC.

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Love your content Swedish investor . Surely a very underated Chanel while those who creates useless distracting contents gets millions of subs.I think Your take aways are really accurate because I have watched your contents on books that I have already read .I am not a fast reader ,for me reading a book does take quite a bit of time . So I have a question for you . A lot of books that you reviewed are on my "going to read list ". After watching your video It makes me wonder if I should read the book or your take aways points are already all what I need to learn from the book. Do you mind taking a few seconds at the end of the video to tell the viewers : after the take away videos ,is the book is still worth reading or not ? Thanks

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I think you should try practicing your reading elsewhere, and focus on the takeaways. Eventually you’ll be able to read higher level and you won’t have stressed yourself over the information which will actually allow you to learn.

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I am going to start a business and Warren Buffett's books will teach me finance part of business pretty well.

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make sure you study accounting

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thx for the video, its about time this accounting degree paid off...cash flow statement is definitely important and more details are wanted. Learned about the augmented payout ratio thank you for that. Free-Cash Flow is also important as well as amounts spend on investments and acquisitions. GARP (growth at a reasonable price) investors like to see acquisitions and expansions of the business....

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Very Well summarized and explained.

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I want it! (A video about cashflow/income statement)

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What’s the name of the book?

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@@timothymullen1584 it's literally the title

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Warren buffet and the interpretation of financial statements

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Welcome aboard!

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Learned a lot. Thanks

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hey! Can you use half year reports to do fundamental analysis? Or should you use annual reports from the year before then?

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Thank u so much. I want more.

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Look for inspiration on Fiverr. i'm not sure what he is using.

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hi there! is there any book you can do to see what to look out for, for unit trust? thank you so much!

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Thank you very much !!!

[@moisesc.8314]

this is a great video, Thank you for taking the time to explained it. Do you know where to actually find the income statement of a specific company? which website would I use?

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marketwatch (dot) com is best and free to use imo. Click on magnifying glass symbol in top right and enter name of any company you want to find, then click on financials.

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SEC>EDGAR>Company name

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helpful as always

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Love your videos, great work, is there any videos with a list of all the various sayings as I get confused with which one to use in the 10 -K forms, example, some say revenue others net income, others total sales etc etc, some companies change from year to year, then depending on what sort of business sector their in they will have some other word for this example "total revenue". Also other financial information in the 10Ks appear different, makes it hard to know which figures to use to get the calculations correct, sorry not an accountant, just a labourer on minimum wage (US$300) per week and trying to get some money banked before my body says enough hard labour

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good job on this video. make another on #4

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Hey dude, question @ 7:53 the new row that appears on the balance sheet that says "Years to pay off long term debt". How did you calculate those numbers for each of those years? Do you simply divide Long term debt by Net income (loss)?

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(long-term debt)/(Net income)

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I want it! (the cash flow vs net income video)

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hey thanks for the video, what site do you use for the charts? cause main does not have Capital Expenditure and

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This video is amazing. It makes it really simple. I've dumbed it down even more. However I've found stuff i'm confused about. Can I ask, What % does an investor like Warren Buffet want on RoE or RoNTA?

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Hey thank for this video! How did you come up with the pay off long term debt calculation on at 7:52.

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