Event-Driven Stocks

WEST CORP

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Signs● 4 good● 1 warning● 2 severedetails ↓

Financials

SEC XBRL · annual
 FY16FY15FY14FY13FY12FY11
Revenue$570.8M$565.5M$2.22B$2.12B$2.04B$2.49B
Operating income$108.9M$110.7M$461.4M$451.3M$443.1M$468.1M
Net income$44.6M$80.5M$158.4M$143.2M$125.5M$127.5M
Total assets$3.44B$3.56B$3.74B$3.50B$3.46B$3.23B
Total liabilities$3.88B$4.11B$4.48B$4.24B$4.70B$4.12B
Equity−$441.8M−$552.1M−$659.6M−$740.2M−$1.25B−$896.4M
EPS (diluted)$0.53$0.93$1.85$1.78$1.98$-0.50
Shares out.83.4M84.3M83.8M497.2M490.9M490.3M

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

Key ratios

from filings · FY2016
Operating margin
19.1%
Net margin
7.8%
Return on equity
−10.1%
Return on assets
1.3%
Return on capital (ROCE)
3.7%
Liabilities / assets
112.8%
Debt / equity
—
Book value / share
$-5.30
Revenue growth (YoY)
0.9%
Net income growth (YoY)
−44.7%

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 · FY2016
Altman Z″ (distress)
-1.89distress
Accruals / assets
−11.2%clean
Piotroski F-Score
6/9mixed

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
58
/ 100
Profitability 80Growth 50Catalyst 33Earnings quality 100Financial strength 25

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.

Signs

● 2 severe● 1 warning● 4 good
  • Negative shareholder equity
  • Altman Z″ in the distress zone
  • High leverage (liabilities > 70% of assets)
  • 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.

Insider transactions

SEC Form 4 · most recent
0 acquisitions1 disposalsnet −119,335 shares · last 1
InsiderDateTypeSharesPrice
Treinen DavidOfficer — EVP-Corp Dev &amp; PlanningOct 10, 2017D119,335$23.50

Headline trade per Form 4 (officers, directors, 10%+ owners). Buy/sell read from the filing's structured data — blank where a field isn't cleanly tagged.

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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