I have read approximately 3,000 10-Ks in my life. I have read my wifeโs emotional state correctly maybe 11 times. This is troubling because the skills should transfer. Both require you to look past the headline. Both require you to read the footnotes. Both require you to notice what was said last quarter that is not being said this quarter.
I can spot a goodwill impairment from 40 pages away. I cannot spot that my wife has been quietly furious since Tuesday. In a 10-K I notice when management changes the word โchallengingโ to โdynamicโ and I correctly interpret this as a warning. In my marriage my wife changed the word โfineโ to โfine.โ and I did not notice the period. The period was the entire disclosure.
I missed it. I read a footnote last week in a packaging companyโs annual report that disclosed a related-party transaction worth $400,000 and I caught it in 90 seconds. My wife told me three times this month that she was tired and I interpreted this as โtiredโ when in fact it was a Level 3 disclosure requiring immediate management response. I have a system for 10-Ks. I read the MD&A first, then the risk factors, then the cash flow statement, then the notes. I have no system for my wife. She is a company that does not file. She reports continuously and without warning and the format changes every quarter. Her risk factors are not enumerated.
Her MD&A is delivered through sighs of varying length and I have not yet developed the ear. Last week she said โdo whatever you wantโ and I did whatever I wanted and it turns out the correct interpretation of โdo whatever you wantโ was โdo not do that specific thingโ and I have no idea how I was supposed to know that, and yet, looking back, the signals were all there. The signals are always there. I have been trained to find signals. I find them in companies I will never meet. I miss them in the person I have lived with for nine years. My wife has started saying things like โyou would notice this if I were a stockโ and she is correct. She is correct. If she had a ticker I would have already built a 6,000-word model on her. I would know her seasonality.
I would know her capex cycle. I would know which quarters historically run hot. Instead I treat her like a private company and I am surprised every time the auditors arrive. I am going to bed now. She said good night in a tone. I do not know what the tone meant. I will find out in the morning. Or I will not. The 10-K of my marriage is filed in real time and I am, as always, three quarters behind.
Congrats to $EOS.AX bulls
Could we be seeing a JV on the 300kw system?
European prime?
Either way, transformational time for the company.
Conviction paying off.
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Successful launch!๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐
All satellites were captured within minutes and already orbiting Earth with all systems nominal.
Congratulations to the incredible AST SpaceMobile team! 250Y U.S.A. ๐๐ถ ๐ค
President Trump is unleashing the American Nuclear Renaissanceโaiming to have multiple nuclear reactors critical by July 4th on our nation's 250th anniversary.
@SecretaryWright: โThis summer you will see multiple next generation nuclear reactors running...America is back!"
$ASTS: Real-time short interest is DOWN for the first time in ~9 days. Short interest now at 66.8M down from 68.3M.
AND that's with convert arbs shorting more to hedge deltas as the stock goes higher.
Short sellers are starting to crack.