What information do investors want that is not in financial statements?

That is, what useful information would investors need that is not in financial statements and why is it not there.......|||The general outlook of the specific industry...or the market as a whole.





Specific to the individual Co;... Planned expansion projects, new products coming to market, competition entering or exiting the market, etc.





None of these thing will be in financial statements of the Co...but are all very important...if you are a potential investor.





They are not listed because financial statements are backward looking and these things are forward looking. Therefore they may or may not happen and can't be on financial statements.. Hope this helped.|||Not to be rude or insensitive:





EVERY TRADER AND INVESTOR wants


"Insider Information". They want to be "a fly on the wall."





There isn't a trader or investor in the world who doesn't want to know what their stock will be doing tomorrow, next week, next year or further in time.





FOR EXAMPLE: Today BSC - Bear Stearns Companies went over Niagara Falls and tanked HUGE - falling over $27 - Opening at $57 and closing at $29.79. It lost almost 50%.





If a trader was on the short side of that trade, he/she would have probably hit "THE Grand Slam homerun" of the month - if not the year.





On the trading program I subscribe to, one gentlemen called and said he earned over Ninety-seven Thousand [$97,000] Dollars - U.S.


JUST from that one trade, alone, by itself in ONE [1] single day!





The corporations can only give the general public what they know and what they predict will happen in the foreseeable future. AND EVEN THEN many times they are wrong.





Thanks for asking your Q! I enjoyed answering it!





VTY,


Ron Berue


Yes, that is my real last name!|||Search the term business plan online. You can find really useful outlines with specific questions that need to be answered.





Investors want to see who is carrying out the plan (do they have relevant previous experience? what have they accomplished in the past?), what opportunity exists for that plan (is there a market for it?), what the overall context is (economy, etc.), how the planners are going to reach the intended market and make their plan work. Financial statements are usually of least concern because they are only projections. Most of the time they are wrong and overstated. Investors know this. Financials need to be there, but they aren't the first thing that investors look at.