Quaterly Earnings Report

[Middleoftheroad]

I don't understand them.
A breif history of myself, I'm in management and I know quite a lot about how business is run, so I should be able to understand this. I'm also a very small time amateur stock trader.
So here is my question.
How can a company claim a large profit when
a) cash is down a lot
b) debt is up a lot
c) assets are up.

decrease in cash + increase of debt (net debt) + increase of assets = 0
How is that a large profit?

 

[waltky]

Weak company earnings not a good sign for the economy...

With weak earnings in tow, focus turns to jobs data
April 29, 2016 - Coming off a barrage of flimsy company earnings reports that included Apple's first revenue drop in 13 years, investors will turn to April jobs data for signs of budding resilience or further weakening in the second quarter.

U.S. nonfarm payrolls, unemployment and wages data are due Friday May 6, when the economy is expected to have added 200,000 jobs in April, with the unemployment rate unchanged at 5 percent and a wage increase of 0.3 percent, according to Reuters data. Unlike in recent months, where weak jobs numbers were counted on to stave off another Federal Reserve interest rate hike, investors are now itching for better-than-expected employment data to indicate a stronger next earnings season, analysts said. "The most important thing to stock investors is not what the Federal Reserve will do in June at their meeting; the most important thing is to see a recovery in the economy and earnings," said Hugh Johnson, chief investment officer of Albany, New York-based Hugh Johnson Advisors.

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange shortly after the opening bell in New York​

Even as expectations for first-quarter earnings have improved of late, S&P 500 companies are still seen posting a 5.9 percent earnings fall in the first quarter. On April 1, the estimate was for a 7.1 percent decline. With dismal U.S. gross domestic product figures released on Wednesday showing the slowest economic expansion in two years, jobs will be especially important for signaling a second-quarter recovery, Johnson said.

If employment can beat estimates, markets will likely rally, Johnson said, even if the number triggers talk of an impending rate hike at the Fed. After a slow climb since the start of the month, as many companies beat ultra-low first-quarter earnings expectations, stocks fell sharply over the last two trading days. Pushing the downturn were Apple's results, which included the first decline in iPhone sales.

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[william the wie]

I don't understand them.
A breif history of myself, I'm in management and I know quite a lot about how business is run, so I should be able to understand this. I'm also a very small time amateur stock trader.
So here is my question.
How can a company claim a large profit when
a) cash is down a lot
b) debt is up a lot
c) assets are up.

decrease in cash + increase of debt (net debt) + increase of assets = 0
How is that a large profit?

On Asset value increase exceeding debt increase. I subscribe to Value Line to avoid this kind of crap. I don't know your circumstances but unless your portfolio is big enough to turn a profit with subscriptions to VL and AAII you might want to stick to ETFs in a balanced portfolio.