Recent content by meteoraln

For example, NKE 2000-03-16 dividend was $0.0075 per share. 1987-09-04 dividend is $0.0006 per share. These numbers seem too small, like they were split adjusted as well.

I've been trying to work through Yahoo's changes. My backtests are making wild swings using yahoo's new daily bars. Upon closer inspection, I noticed that some closing prices higher than the highs of the day. I suspect that the Open High Low values have been changed to adjusted open high lows...

Not too sure what to make of this company. There are wild fluctuations in its revenues and expenses, and not in a good way. The 10 year summary in money.msn.com shows large fluctuations, even over a 10 year span. It looks as if the company is viable. However, such a company does not look like it...

EK - The numbers are extremely unstable. In the past 4 years, the losses from 2 years really overshadow the earnings from the other 2 years. Shareholder equity has continued to drop, and is now at -1bn equity. The company is insolvent in the event of bankruptcy. Seeing as how its financial...

CSCO - CSCO took a 963m unusal expense in 2011. Its accounts receivables have doubled from 3.1bn in 2008 to 7.8bn in 2010. It has also been taking up more debt in the recent years. It still has pretty low capital expenditures compared to operating cash flow. While the numbers on the statements...

HIG - This is definitely a company that I can't analyze well. It's a financial, and there have been drastic fluctuations in its income in the past 4 years. The reason that I can't analyze financials is because I have no idea what they're holding. They might be holding some mortgage backed...

EL - This company is definitely viable. It has a huge profit margin on it's products, with 8.8bn in revenue and 1.9bn in cost of revenue. Sadly this was offset by 5.7bn spent on selling/general/admin expenses. Furtunately, EL is still left with a decent amount of profits. Shareholder equity is...

BKX - Even though I shouldn't analyze oil related companies, this one looks easy enough. 4 years of negative income, confirmed by 3 out of 4 years of negative cash flow from operating activities, with increasing shareholder equity as a result of diluting the stock via raising money via issuance...

AAPL - Rising revenues, rising income, low capital expenditures, rising shareholder equity, AAPL has pretty much everything that I like to see. The only thing that caught my eye in the statements is the jump in accounts receivables for 2009 from 5bn to 10bn. The 10K says that this is due to...

TNH - This company caught my eye recently too. Using a total shareholder equity of 263m, it's generating 210m for 2010. It has no debt either, resulting in large return on assets and return on equity numbers. It keeps a minimal amount of cash on hand and pays out all the excess as dividends...

DEXO - This is not a steal. The company is insolvent. Look at the goodwill and intangibles, which are 800m and 2.4bn for 2010. Taking these out show that the total equity is sharply in the red. 2010's large jump in income is a result of a 6.6bn unusual income. There were 2 large unusual expenses...

I can't analyze these well because they're financials.

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T - ATT is fairly easy to analyze. Most of the numbers are very consistent, which makes ATT reasonably predictable. First thing I want to point out is the capital expenditures, which is consistently a bit more than half of operating cash flow. Cap Ex is money spent on things that keep the...

There's unfortunately too little information on DNKN. It did its IPO not too long ago and the financial statements only stretch back for 2 years on google finance. In what's available though, my attention was drawn to the large 331m unusual expense in 2008 and a sharp drop in shareholder equity...