Financial health
Property, plant and equipment, net
PP&E
What it is
Durable physical assets — land, buildings, machinery, servers — after accumulated depreciation.
How to read it
Their weight in total assets shows how capital-intensive the business is. A plant or a network weighs heavily; a software publisher, almost nothing.
What it does not tell you
Depreciated book value, often far from market value: land bought thirty years ago sits at its historical price.
Other measures — Financial health
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