Think of it like NASCAR, only where one lap takes 13 weeks. Companies compete. They deliver. Or they don't. And they run another lap.
Most public market/publicly traded companies give a full rendition of their income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow statement every 13 weeks. The reports contain all kinds of metrics relating to performance...and throw in for spice the newly opened Somalia office's security system to show investors how the company is spending its precious growth capital.
They get filed with various repositories, and are almost always immediately downloadable from the company's website. Type in "investor relations Disney" or whatever to get the gist.
The quarterly report is lovingly referred to as a 10Q, and the annual filing, a 10K. Any special filings intra-quarter? Yep...the cleverly named 8K.
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Finance: What are a 10K and 10Q?57 Views
finance a la shmoop what are 10K and 10Q filings well as the pros say 10Q
very much yeah you know we had to go there sorry well they're just filings a [Girl filing her fingernails]
different kind of filings legal filings papers or data
well the 10K is the annual report and the 10Q is the quarterly report their
note the Q in there yeah very clever naming their people well we have no idea
why the K is there like shouldn't it have been a 10A fling equals annual
anyway the filings contain the key elements that report to shareholders the [Man giving presentation to shareholders]
progress or lack thereof that the company has made in the period it's
reporting and these apply to public companies people privates don't
necessarily file... well the K the Q have to contain an updated income statement [Income statement, balance sheet and cash flow statement appear]
balance sheet and cash flow statement along with tons of notes on whatever
business metrics the company regularly reports the number of people made sick
by the lemonade the number a coal miner Barbies sold the number of Disney cruise
passengers infected with Legionnaires disease and so on and if you're the CEO [Person puking off the edge of a cruise ship]
or CFO of the company and you don't get your filings in on time well you'll be
doing a different kind of filing so yeah 10K, 10Q they're really important
don't ignore them...
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