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Why charts has this thing called a one-page report for any company that you're looking at. So I brought

up Netflix because that was very much in the news this week. And so it shows you the income

statement, the balance sheet, cash flow statement for the last, I don't know, called six years. statement the

last I don't know called six years and what really stands out here

looking through this is the company's free cash flow, which has been getting more and more

negative in the recent years.

So at 2015, it was under a billion dollars and in the last 12 months their free cash

list negative 3 billion dollars.

So I posted a quick one on Twitter about this and I the great thing about why charts

why I like them is the search function is pretty easy so I just typed in Netflix and then if you want to look for a metric you just type it in and it'll give you 10 options that you can choose from.

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