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That 7 P/E is not real. I took a quick look at yahoo finance and they showed a negative 740 Million tax provision in Q2 of last year and negative 135 Million in Q3 of last year. A negative tax provision means they actually showed profit from taxes. The US government is not in the habit of giving companies hundreds of millions of dollars (almost a billion) in negative taxes so this is likely something not reflective of real profits.

I will not check what it is because I have no intention in investing in coinbase, but from experience from other companies these sharp profits coming from taxes are usually reversals of valuation allowances for tax loss carryforwards. They are non-cash items that do not have much to do with the current operation of the business.

So if you really want to do P/E investing and are using real money, I highly recommend you learn some financial accounting and learn to remove these one time accounting charges/incomes that do not really have much to do with the company's operation.

Furthermore, as it comes to coinbase, I should point out that their source of revenues is highly uncertain, and dependent on uncertain trading of exotic assets. When people talk about P/E there is an unspoken assumption of some business continuity. I am not sure this is present with coinbase, but you may believe differently.




If I had $1M I would buy put options on COIN tomorrow. I think it's gonna be a blood bath on their stock on wednesday.

Also this is the chart you've mentioned about the negative tax provision.

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/COIN/financials?p=COIN

Click on the quarterly link to see the -700M tax provision.




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