Stock Financial Statements

Financial statements are called fundamentals. It is outside the scope of this doc to explain what these statements are and how to read them. As stated in the design, the reported values were often found less useful without computing a ratio, a percentage, or period-to-period comparison. Therefore, this tool takes on the data crunching by providing such computation and comparisons.

Four data categories

This is applicable to all three statements. On each page one would find data grouped into four categories:

1. reported: These are straight out-of-report numbers. NOTE that units are often omitted and a unit of billion is implied. For example, shared issued of 17.14 would be 17.14 billion shares, whereas working capital of 44.75 would be 44.75 billion dollars.
2. ratio: Ratios are common technique in financial statement analysis. We have covered many of them so far, and the list will continue to grow w/ newer releases.
3. period-to-period growth rate (%): Using quarterly statement data provided by the Yahoo! API, we picked some data points to compute its growth rate from …