When Charlie and I read the financial report, we do not have much interest in personnel, factory or product introduction, a reference to the surplus net of tax burden before interest, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) made us alarmed, do managerstake teeth in exchange for large sums of capital expenditures it? (Note: American children believe teeth out, teeth hidden under his pillow, tooth fairy money to change your teeth) really think those fuzzyunclear accounting principles, we have been skeptical, because managers usually like to take to conceal the fact that, in addition, we also do not want to read the information provided by the public relations department or consultant, we hope to be able to personally explain the actual CEO ownhappened.
For us, informative report on behalf of 300,000 partner can get the same information, at least be able to do as much as possible, so we are accustomed to the quarterly and annual network unified announced at the close of the market on a Friday, so a , shareholders and all concerned about Berkshire"s investment can timely get an important message, opened on Monday at the same time, there is enough time to assimilate the information, this year, our quarterly reports respectively in may 12 No., announced on August 11 and Saturday, November 10, the 2001 Annual Report will be open on March 9.
——摘自2000年巴菲特寫給全體股東的年報
譯文
當我和查理閱讀財務報表時,人員、工廠或者產品介紹等不會讓我倆產生多大興趣,有關扣除折舊攤銷稅負利息前的盈餘(EBITDA)的引用則讓我們備感焦慮,我們在想:難道經營階層真的覺得用牙齒就可以換來大筆的資金支出(注:美國小孩更願意相信當牙齒掉了,隻要將其藏在枕頭下麵,牙仙就會用錢換牙齒)?對於那些含糊不清的會計原則,我們倆一直持懷疑態度,因為經營層麵大多會借此掩飾一些事實。此外,我們根本不想閱讀那些由公關部門提供的缺少權威性的資料,我們更希望這些資料由首席執行官親自作出解釋。
對於我們來說,權威且詳實的資料說明,像我們這樣三十萬合夥人都可以在第一時間得到相同的信息,至少要盡可能地做到這一點,因此我們更習慣把季度報告與年度報告在周五收盤之後通過發達的網絡媒介向外統一發布出去,在這樣的情況下,無論是股東還是對伯克希爾關心的投資者都可以及時得到有價值的信息,這使得在周一開盤之前,他們有足夠的時間吸收並消化獲得的信息。今年我們的季度報告會分別在5月12號、8月11號及11月10號星期六對外公布,而2001年的年報會在3月9號對外公開。
投資解讀
業績是企業綜合素質最直觀的體現,尤其是價值投資者在選擇投資對象時,往往都對企業的業績極為注重,一般會從其主營業務狀況、行業地位、人才素質及創新能力等各個方麵對企業的綜合素質和投資價值作出基本的分析與判斷。作為一個典型的價值投資專家,巴菲特認為,任何企業都有自己的經營範圍,其中主營業務是該企業的經營優勢所在,其運營狀況在很大程度上決定著公司的盈利與虧損程度,因此對股東的投資回報有很重大的影響。