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allnamestaken1968 t1_j294j1f wrote

The marketable securities should be added to the cash balance. It’s just a short term vehicle to park cash. So that 135.7 increased cash and marketable securities balance

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Hamoodzstyle t1_j29zmic wrote

Does marketable securities include short term T-bills?

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allnamestaken1968 t1_j2a0m5p wrote

Anything they plan to sell (rather than hold for the longer term). So think so. Point is that it’s liquid almost like cash and in financial analysis you always look at “cash and marketable securities”

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Hamoodzstyle t1_j2a922e wrote

Makes sense, sounds like looking at just cash is pretty much useless

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allnamestaken1968 t1_j2abtbr wrote

Correct. And some companies have so much cash they put some in longer term investments - for example, a non liquid bond. If you don’t plan to sell, that shows up in long term assets. Was the case when Apple has hundreds of billions for example

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