Plotting cash flow ratios

Sometimes, you might want to plot several line plots in one image. However, having too many lines in one plot will make it challenging to read. Making separate facets for every line is more elegant: the figure will look neat and more interpretable.

A pandas DataFrame plot_df has already been loaded for you. It has the columns "Year", "company","cash_flow_to_net_income" and "operating_cash_flow". Seaborn has been loaded with the alias sns.

This exercise is part of the course

Analyzing Financial Statements in Python

Exercise instructions

Melt plot_dfto prepare it for plotting.
Use sns.relplot() to make a line plot of the cash flow to net income and operating cash flow ratio of Apple and Microsoft over time, with hue over the dimension of "Ratio".

Hands-on interactive exercise

Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

# Melt the DataFrame to prepare for plotting
melt_data = plot_df.melt(____, var_name="Ratio")

# Plot your melted DataFrame
sns.relplot(data=____, x=____, y=____, col=____, kind=____, hue=____)

plt.show()

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Analyzing Financial Statements in Python

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In this chapter, you will learn how to read and interpret a balance sheet and compute and use financial ratios to evaluate a company's performance using information from the balance sheet. Additionally, you'll gain hands-on experience using the powerful pandas data manipulation package to analyze a company's financial ratios and compare them to its peers in the industry.

Exercise 1: Introduction to the balance sheet Exercise 2: Match balance sheet items to their class Exercise 3: Relation of assets, liabilities, and shareholders' equity Exercise 4: Practice using the main equation of accounting Exercise 5: Financial ratios from the balance sheet Exercise 6: Match the ratio to its family Exercise 7: Compute the current ratio Exercise 8: Leverage ratios Exercise 9: Computing financial ratios using pandas Exercise 10: Compute current and debt-to-equity ratios Exercise 11: Compute relative difference by industry Exercise 12: Compute ratios by industry

In this chapter, you'll learn how to read and interpret an income statement, calculate key financial ratios, and even create your own functions in Python to automate repetitive tasks. You'll also gain experience using seaborn, a powerful data visualization library, to produce figures to help you understand a company's financial performance.

Exercise 1: Introduction to the income statement Exercise 2: Compute net income Exercise 3: Computing ratios from the income statement Exercise 4: Ratios from the income statement and balance sheet Exercise 5: Updating the user-defined function Exercise 6: Updating user-defined function to do subtraction Exercise 7: Computing ratios with user-defined function Exercise 8: Computing multiple ratios with the user-defined function Exercise 9: Visualizing ratios for within-company analysis Exercise 10: Plotting ratios Exercise 11: Plotting ratios in one figure

In this chapter, you’ll analyze the cash flow statement and use its information to compute and interpret financial ratios. Using Seaborn to create informative plots that compare financial ratios across different companies, you'll build on your existing knowledge of Python and data visualization. By the end of this chapter, you'll have the skills to extract insights from cash flow statements using Python and handle messy, real-world data sets with missing data.

Exercise 1: Cash flow statement Exercise 2: Assign cash flow entries to the correct part Exercise 3: Compute net cash flow Exercise 4: Financial ratios from the cash flow statement Exercise 5: Merging financial statements Exercise 6: Compute cash flow statement ratios Exercise 7: Imputing and filling in missing values using averages Exercise 8: Imputing missing values with percentiles Exercise 9: Merging financial statements and filling missing values Exercise 10: Visualizing financial ratios for comparison Exercise 11: Plotting cash flow ratios

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In this chapter, you'll learn about the different financial ratios that measure a company's profitability, how to compute them, and how to compare them across other companies. You'll build upon your knowledge of the Seaborn library to create visualizations that help you analyze profitability ratios and identify trends.

Exercise 1: A glimpse into the financial ratios of some industries Exercise 2: Using margins in pivot tables and making a bar plot Exercise 3: Preparing data for a facet grid plot Exercise 4: Making a facet grid plot Exercise 5: User-defined function to make plots Exercise 6: Profitability metrics Exercise 7: Relationship between operating margin and debt-to-equity for real estate companies Exercise 8: Practice with sns.regplot()Exercise 9: Updating the user-defined function for plotting Exercise 10: More on analyzing profitability Exercise 11: Practice making heat maps Exercise 12: Broad analysis Exercise 13: Well done!