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Nuance Communications, Inc.

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Signs4 good1 warning1 severedetails ↓

Financials

SEC XBRL · annual
 FY21FY20FY19FY18FY17FY16
Revenue$347.0M$315.9M$1.27B$1.57B$419.7M$1.98B
Operating income$82.7M$58.6M$42.5M−$184.3M$16.5M$138.5M
Net income−$26.7M$21.4M$213.8M−$159.9M$13.9M−$33.8M
Total assets$3.39B$3.59B$5.37B$5.30B$5.93B$5.66B
Total liabilities$1.71B$2.45B$3.19B$3.58B$4.00B$3.73B
Equity$1.63B$1.14B$2.17B$1.72B$1.93B$1.93B
EPS (diluted)$-0.09$0.08$0.75$-0.55$0.05$-0.12
Shares out.319.5M283.0M282.6M287.6M290.3M287.8M

Reported figures from the company's SEC filings (XBRL). Blank where a line item isn't cleanly tagged — never estimated.

Key ratios

from filings · FY2021
Operating margin
23.8%
Net margin
−7.7%
Return on equity
−1.6%
Return on assets
−0.8%
Return on capital (ROCE)
3.4%
Liabilities / assets
50.4%
Debt / equity
1.04×
Book value / share
$5.12
Revenue growth (YoY)
9.8%
Net income growth (YoY)
−224.9%

Computed from the company's own SEC figures — no market price, so these are facts, not a valuation. Book value per share is reported equity ÷ shares; it is not the stock price.

Financial health

forensic scores · FY2021
Altman Z″ (distress)
0.25distress
Accruals / assets
8.1%clean
Piotroski F-Score
5/9mixed

Altman Z″is a textbook bankruptcy-distress score from book values only (>2.6 safe · 1.1–2.6 grey · <1.1 distress). Accruals = (net income − operating cash flow) ÷ assets; persistently high accruals are an earnings-quality red flag. Beneish M-Scoreis an eight-ratio screen comparing this year with last (M > −1.78 = elevated manipulation-risk screen, not proof). Piotroski F-Scorecounts how many of nine fundamental-health checks pass (shown as passed / applicable; we use operating margin and total liabilities as documented proxies where the exact input isn't XBRL-tagged). Computed from SEC filings — descriptive factors, not advice or a forecast.

Quality score

EDS Score
55
/ 100
Profitability 40Growth 50Catalyst 33Earnings quality 100Financial strength 50

Our own multi-factor score from free SEC data — profitability, growth, financial strength, earnings quality, and event/ownership catalysts. No market price and no licensed model: each axis is the share of source-backed checks it passes. Descriptive factors, not advice or a forecast. What these scores mean →

Signs

1 severe1 warning4 good
  • Altman Z″ in the distress zone
  • Reported a net loss
  • Operating margin is positive
  • Revenue is growing year-over-year
  • Positive operating cash flow
  • Clean earnings (low accruals)

Derived from the company's own SEC figures (fundamentals, forensic scores, filing discipline) — descriptive factors, not advice or a forecast.

Material events

SEC Form 8-K · most recent

Events the company reported on Form 8-K, labelled by the SEC item code it filed under — its own classification, not our interpretation.

Recent SEC filings

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