What to look for in financial statements?

REDDIT.COMApr 3, 7:26 PM UTC
What to look for in financial statements?

Finally reached a level where financial statements and filings are readable. I can fairly get values like the company's revenue, groth, assets, and calculate common ratios.

It's quite insightful in and of itself, yet I feel like there are more strategies to it. Some posters over here or in other subs or videos analyzing a stock have this thing where they can look at items and connect variances in numbers to actual progress or future events and be like that's bad/good or that'll roll on to their next Q, etc.

Usually there's nothing innovative about what they're saying, simply more experience and better connection of more dots than what ratios can produce.

For example, a company's earnings would increase. Great. What can I make of that? what should I compare it to? which other metrics should I consider before assuming this is good? so on and so forth.

I get the fact that "bro, this is experience and effort" is a valid advice which I'm working on, but having a concrete path in the form of a course, book, or even videos should be better than none.

What guides you through this?

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