Balance Sheet: Liabilities and Stockholders’ Equity
Quarterly Data
The balance sheet provides creditors, investors, and analysts with information on company resources (assets) and its sources of capital (its equity and liabilities). It normally also provides information about the future earnings capacity of a company assets as well as an indication of cash flows that may come from receivables and inventories.
Liabilities represents obligations of a company arising from past events, the settlement of which is expected to result in an outflow of economic benefits from the entity.
Twitter Inc., consolidated balance sheet: liabilities and stockholders’ equity (quarterly data)
US$ in thousands
Based on: 10-Q (reporting date: 2022-06-30), 10-Q (reporting date: 2022-03-31), 10-K (reporting date: 2021-12-31), 10-Q (reporting date: 2021-09-30), 10-Q (reporting date: 2021-06-30), 10-Q (reporting date: 2021-03-31), 10-K (reporting date: 2020-12-31), 10-Q (reporting date: 2020-09-30), 10-Q (reporting date: 2020-06-30), 10-Q (reporting date: 2020-03-31), 10-K (reporting date: 2019-12-31), 10-Q (reporting date: 2019-09-30), 10-Q (reporting date: 2019-06-30), 10-Q (reporting date: 2019-03-31), 10-K (reporting date: 2018-12-31), 10-Q (reporting date: 2018-09-30), 10-Q (reporting date: 2018-06-30), 10-Q (reporting date: 2018-03-31), 10-K (reporting date: 2017-12-31), 10-Q (reporting date: 2017-09-30), 10-Q (reporting date: 2017-06-30), 10-Q (reporting date: 2017-03-31).
The balance sheet exhibits a substantial expansion in total liabilities and a volatile trajectory in stockholders' equity from March 2017 through June 2022. Total liabilities grew from approximately 2.2 billion USD to 7.6 billion USD over the period, reflecting a significant increase in the company's leverage and long-term financing obligations.
- Liability Structure and Debt Trends
- Long-term liabilities demonstrated a steady upward trend, increasing from 1.7 billion USD in March 2017 to 6.6 billion USD by June 2022. This growth was primarily driven by a sharp rise in convertible notes, which increased from 1.56 billion USD to 3.56 billion USD. Furthermore, senior notes, which were not present in the early data, appeared in late 2019 at approximately 692 million USD and surged to 1.68 billion USD by the end of 2021.
- Current liabilities showed significant volatility, peaking at 2.26 billion USD in June 2021. A notable driver of this volatility was the accrued and other current liabilities account, which spiked to 1.69 billion USD in September 2021 before normalizing to 676 million USD by June 2022.
- Operating lease liabilities shifted from a non-reported status in early 2017 to a significant obligation, with long-term lease liabilities reaching 1.28 billion USD by June 2022.
- Stockholders' Equity and Retained Earnings
- Stockholders' equity followed a non-linear path, rising from 4.69 billion USD in March 2017 to a peak of 8.79 billion USD in March 2020, before declining to 5.93 billion USD by June 2022. This decline in the latter period coincides with a reduction in additional paid-in capital, which fell from a peak of 9.25 billion USD in September 2020 to 7.09 billion USD in June 2022.
- The accumulated deficit remained a persistent feature of the equity section. While the deficit narrowed significantly and briefly turned positive (11.5 million USD) in December 2019, it widened again to 963 million USD by June 2022, indicating ongoing challenges in sustaining cumulative profitability.
- Overall Financial Position
- The total balance sheet size increased from 6.89 billion USD in March 2017 to 13.58 billion USD in June 2022. The shift in the composition of the balance sheet indicates a transition toward a more debt-heavy capital structure, as the growth in total liabilities outpaced the growth in stockholders' equity over the analyzed timeframe.
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