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What a good company actually looks like on paper
Flow's quick screen: revenues growing, profit margins rising, earnings climbing — and check what they owe versus what they own. Humanize the company like it's a household.
A good company, on paper, has revenues growing, profit margins rising, and earnings climbing — and a sensible balance of what it owes versus what it owns. Flow's tip: humanize it. Companies are like people — "when we make more money, we spend more money" — so look at whether it's actually getting healthier or just bigger, and mind the debt.
Growing, profitable, and not drowning in debt
Three lines tell most of the story: revenue (is it selling more?), margin (is it keeping more of each sale?), and earnings (is it actually profitable?). Then the balance sheet: what it owes versus what it owns. If a company didn't make money, why own it? Humanizing it helps — a household earning more but spending it all isn't getting ahead, and neither is a company. Get those basics and the rest gets easier.
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