The company's financial statements

In order to choose good assets on the stock market (common or otherwise) and evaluate their attractiveness and prospects, an investor must "read" the financial reports that issuers put out in the public domain. How to do it right?

According to the financial results indicated in the financial report you can:

During the reporting periods, experts and analysts make their predictions of expected results. Depending on whether the reports are better or worse than forecasts, they could either go up or down.

Reports are published at the end of each quarter, half-year and year. To make it easier for investors to evaluate companies and compare them with each other, uniform reporting standards have been adopted for all issuers whose shares are traded on stock exchanges:

Financial reports are published on the issuers' official websites. They are usually found in the "To Shareholders and Investors" section. In the same section there are calendars of events, which inform when and what data will be published, there are also announcements of planned events.

IFRS financial statements on Gazprom's official website

More reports can be found on various Internet resources.

When the financial statements come out, first of all, you need to pay attention to the following data:

A current kind of hint for the investor. Its analysis will give an idea about the company's prospects and will prompt whether to increase the number of shares in the portfolio if the prospects are positive or the asset has become unreliable and it is time to get rid of it.