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7 guides in Finabase Learn
- Capital allocation: how management spends cash, and how to judge it The five uses of corporate cash, a worked look at where Apple’s fiscal 2025 cash went, how to judge buyback execution, and the filings that reveal management quality.
- Cash flow statement: operating, investing and financing explained Read a cash flow statement with Apple’s fiscal 2025 figures: the indirect method, why net income is not cash, securities churn, buybacks and free cash flow.
- Dividend payout ratio: formula, examples and sustainability Calculate the dividend payout ratio on earnings and on free cash flow, add buybacks for total payout, and judge whether a dividend is sustainable, with Apple’s numbers.
- Earnings per share (EPS): basic vs diluted, with Apple’s numbers Calculate basic and diluted EPS from a 10-K, see how weighted shares, stock awards and buybacks move the number, and why quarterly EPS rarely sums to the year.
- Price-to-book ratio (P/B): book value, buybacks and ROE How to calculate price-to-book, why Apple’s buybacks push it above 50, when tangible book matters, and where P/B works (banks) and fails (asset-light tech).
- Statement of shareholders’ equity: reading Apple’s equity roll-forward Read Apple’s fiscal 2025 statement of shareholders’ equity line by line: profit, dividends, buybacks, stock pay, AOCI and a negative retained-earnings balance.
- Stock buybacks: how share repurchases work and what they do How companies buy back their own shares, the EPS arithmetic with worked examples, SEC Rule 10b-18, the 1% excise tax since 2023, and how to judge a buyback.
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