How many of you go through financial statements of companies you are looking to invest in?
u/Emotional_Ladder3460 ·
Reddit — r/investing
· March 01, 2026 at 20:32
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The post is a general question to the r/investing community about their process for company research, specifically whether they read financial statements like 10-Ks and quarterly reports.
The author, u/Emotional_Ladder3460, shares their own experience of finding the process of reading financial statements slow and challenging due to unfamiliar terminology, especially across different sectors.
Quality assessment: This is a general discussion prompt, not investment due diligence (DD). It is noise from a trade signal perspective.
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Curious how people approach this in general, and that's what sparked my post here. Do you read through 10-Ks and quarterly reports before pulling the trigger, or do you mostly go off news, gut feeling, and general sentiment? And if you do read them, do you find it straightforward or is there a learning curve? I've found it quite slow as I had to stop to look up terminology I wasn't familiar with especially since it seems different sectors sometimes have different terminology or things to focus on.