02/11/2022
Although going through another bear market is a bummer, the positive is we can all generate more passive income! And given we can now generate more passive income we can also get that much closer to financial freedom.
As a reminder, financial freedom means having enough passive income to cover your desired living expenses. When this happens, you can do whatever you want.
For investors, this bear market with its surging interest rates may very well be a gift. The key is to not get too depressed about your declining portfolio’s value because you have the appropriate asset allocation. Eventually, portfolio values will recover.
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02/11/2022
Earnings season refers to the couple of weeks when publicly-listed companies release their quarterly reports to the public. Typically, earnings season falls around the months of January, April, July and October. Around these times, you’ll find investors themselves glued to reports from any manner of company; ranging from big hitters Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), and Berkshire (NYSE: BRK.B), to the more volatile Teslas (NASDAQ: TSLA), Virgin Galactics (NYSE: SPCE), and Beyond Meats (NASDAQ: BYND) of the world.
Why Are Earnings Reports Important?
For investors, these quarterly earnings reports are important as they give you the chance to look beyond the fickleness of day-to-day stock prices and see in actual terms how these companies are performing. The reports will let the public know if the company has performed better or worse than expected, which will inevitably push the share price up or down.
For the novice investor though, these earnings reports can sometimes seem like nothing more than a mass of complicated figures and terms. Even with comprehensive analysis from most major media outlets, you can sometimes find yourself more confused about the state of a company than you were before.
Here’s a quick explainer of the main things you should be looking out for in quarterly earnings reports:
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