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Author: lizgdal   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Rankings for 25Aug2025
Date: 09/08/25 10:52 AM
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Au contraire, its cash has dropped from $101B in the last annual report to $57B in the latest quarter. For some reason the company is hemorrhaging cash through a fire hose and accumulating debt by the truckload.

M* says AMZN cash was $79B in the lastest annual report and $58B in the latest quarter. barchart, M*, and SIP have the following data for AMZN:

     [$B]       2025Q2  2024
Cash 57.74 78.78
ST Investments 35.44 22.42
Cash + ST Inv. 93.2 101.2


Maybe VL changed their Cash definition. Or perhaps VL looked deeper into the ST Investments. Here are more data points that could be checked against the VL data:

[q1CashSTInv] = [SI Cash Q1] + [SI Short-Term Investments Q1]
[avgCashSTInv] = average of the last 9 annual reports Cash and Short-Term Investments (deblanked)
gtr1.net: GTR1 Backtester - Cash2025d

                  BRK-B    GOOGL    AMZN    NVDA    META     F      COST     XOM     CVS     BMY     ABNB    EQIX
[q1CashSTInv] 344,091 95,148 93,180 53,691 47,071 28,281 14,850 14,352 14,173 13,603 11,356 3,660
[avgCashSTInv] 141,250 112,633 65,743 16,387 51,226 29,681 10,013 12,038 9,051 11,486 6,029 1,658

cashq1.s 100,486 21,036 57,741 15,234 12,005 14,551 13,836 14,352 11,787 12,599 7,402 3,660
cashy1.s 47,729 23,466 78,779 8,589 43,889 13,663 9,906 23,029 8,586 10,346 6,864 3,081
cashy2.s 38,022 24,048 73,387 7,280 41,862 14,204 13,700 31,539 8,196 11,464 6,874 2,096
cashy3.s 35,811 21,879 53,888 3,389 14,681 14,741 10,203 29,640 12,945 9,123 7,378 1,906
cashy4.s 88,184 20,945 36,220 1,990 16,601 9,577 11,258 6,802 9,408 13,979 6,067 1,536
cashy5.s 47,990 26,465 42,122 847 17,576 10,894 12,277 4,364 7,854 14,546 5,481 1,605
cashy6.s 64,175 18,498 36,092 10,896 19,079 8,437 8,384 3,089 5,683 12,346 2,014 1,870
cashy7.s 30,361 16,701 31,750 782 10,019 7,111 6,055 3,042 4,059 6,911 2,141 606
cashy8.s 31,583 10,715 20,522 4,002 8,079 8,934 4,546 3,177 1,696 5,421 -999,999 1,413
cashy9.s -999,999 12,918 19,334 1,766 8,903 15,905 3,379 3,657 3,371 4,237 2,843 746

stinvq1.s 243,605 74,112 35,439 38,457 35,066 13,730 1,014 0 2,386 1,004 3,954 0
stinvy1.s 286,472 72,191 22,423 34,621 33,926 14,707 1,238 0 2,407 513 3,747 0
stinvy2.s 129,619 86,868 13,393 18,704 23,541 14,520 1,534 0 3,259 816 3,197 0
stinvy3.s 92,774 91,883 16,138 9,907 26,057 17,443 846 0 2,778 130 2,244 0
stinvy4.s 58,535 118,704 59,829 19,218 31,397 26,880 917 0 3,117 3,242 2,255 0
stinvy5.s 90,300 110,229 42,274 10,714 44,378 19,858 1,028 0 3,000 1,904 911 0
stinvy6.s 63,822 101,177 18,929 1 35,776 13,851 1,060 0 2,373 3,047 1,061 0
stinvy7.s 81,506 92,439 9,500 6,640 31,095 15,925 1,204 0 2,522 1,848 1,188 0
stinvy8.s 84,371 91,156 10,464 3,106 33,632 17,554 1,233 0 116 1,391 0 0
stinvy9.s -999,999 73,415 6,647 5,032 20,546 22,922 1,350 0 87 2,113 -999,999 61

fincd12.a 11 6 6 6 12 2 9 4 11 10 12 11
trbc2.s 40 50 25 45 50 25 30 10 35 35 25 60
trbc7.s 40201 50203 25503 45301 50203 25102 30101 10102 35102 35202 25301 60108


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