P/E, PEG and Free-Cash-Flow Yield: When Each Metric Helps
What P/E, PEG and free-cash-flow yield each measure, when each one misleads, and a five-step routine to calculate them, worked through with Apple's fiscal 2025 10-K figures.
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What P/E, PEG and free-cash-flow yield each measure, when each one misleads, and a five-step routine to calculate them, worked through with Apple's fiscal 2025 10-K figures.
How to measure whether a company is diluting you or genuinely shrinking its share count: gross vs net buybacks, the real cash cost per share retired, the Item 5 repurchase table and the RSU overhang, worked through with Apple’s fiscal 2025 10-K.
Where a 10-K is required to print its warnings: cover-page restatement boxes, the filing deadline and NT 10-K, the auditor's going-concern and critical audit matter language, and Items 9, 9A and 9B — checked against Apple's FY2025 filing.
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