Understanding Company Earnings for Stock Trading: 3 Cases

Understanding a company's earnings is a fundamental skill that every intelligent investor should have when trading stocks. If you want to trade a company stock, you need to understand its business fundamentals and its financial results published on the income statement. By taking this course, you will be able to answer questions: What products or services drive this company's earnings? What financial results does the company show now and what is the outlook for the future? Throughout the course, we analyze public reports and financial results of Microsoft, Starbucks and Disney to answer these and other important questions that will help your decision-making in stock trading. You will understand what drives earnings in the industries where these well established companies belong, their successes, challenges and risks. In addition, you will become empowered with important skills that will help you research any company that interests you as an investment or a learning object. In this course, you will learn in an applied way, diving right into the company's public report, what questions to ask, what information to pay attention to, and how to interpret published financial results and related details. After completing the course, you will have a good understanding of these three companies and will be ready to analyze other companies for investment. This course is also useful if you are a senior manager looking to learn strategic and financial analysis, an entrepreneur looking to improve your strategic management skills by learning from well established companies, or a curious business learner. Enjoy the course!

Disclaimer: this course should be used for educational purposes only. It should not be used as a trading advice on whether or not to invest in the stock of the companies analyzed in the course.