6 Companies, 4 Strong Balance Sheets

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🗓️ 23 April 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

What separates a strong balance sheet from a weak one? Motley Fool senior analysts John Rotonti and Bill Mann discuss: - Assets, liabilities, and when more liabilities can actually be a good thing - A surprising way one retailer generates cash from its balance sheet - Companies holding the most formidable cash piles in the world Stocks: COST, GOOG, GOOGL, LOW, F, NCLH, RAD Host: John Rotonti Guest: Bill Mann Producer: Ricky Mulvey Engineers: Rick Engdahl, Dan Boyd Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	But because they have so much scale and so much negotiating leverage, they don't pay their
0:07.7	vendors for four or six weeks.
0:10.9	So they're selling it in four or six days, they don't pay their vendors for four or six
0:14.2	weeks.
0:15.2	They have six weeks of free financing from their vendors.
0:19.8	Their vendors are financing the organic growth of the business.
0:24.4	It's truly fantastic.
0:29.2	I'm Chris Hill and that was Motley Fool's Senior Analyst John Ratanti.
0:33.5	On this Saturday classroom, he talks with fellow analyst Bill Mann about a retailer using
0:38.1	its balance sheet to generate extra cash for shareholders.
0:42.1	Together, John and Bill are separating the formidable from the weak and giving you
0:47.0	some ideas for companies with a sneaky, strong composition.
0:56.9	Hi, Fool's.
0:57.9	I'm John Ratanti and I'm joined by my buddy Bill Mann.
1:00.9	Hello, my friend.
1:01.9	We're getting the band back together.
1:03.2	How are you, brother?
1:04.2	I'm doing great.
1:05.2	Nothing I enjoy more than doing some video or audio with you.
1:09.9	So Fool's, today we're talking about the balance sheet again.
1:13.8	We did a prior Motley Fool money episode on the balance sheet discussing what is a balance
1:18.6	sheet, how to interpret and analyze a balance sheet, and how the balance sheet connects to
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