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ERESEARCHTECHNOLOGY INC /DE/

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Signs6 gooddetails ↓

Financials

SEC XBRL · annual
 FY11FY10FY09
Revenue$184.9M$141.0M$93.8M
Operating income$19.5M$15.6M$17.9M
Net income$13.7M$9.9M$10.7M
Total assets$240.4M$214.8M
Total liabilities$70.7M$64.2M
Equity$169.7M$150.7M$137.7M
EPS (diluted)$0.28$0.20$0.22
Shares out.49.3M49.2M49.5M

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

Key ratios

from filings · FY2011
Operating margin
10.5%
Net margin
7.4%
Return on equity
8.1%
Return on assets
5.7%
Return on capital (ROCE)
9.6%
Liabilities / assets
29.4%
Debt / equity
0.42×
Book value / share
$3.44
Revenue growth (YoY)
31.2%
Net income growth (YoY)
39.1%

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 · FY2011
Altman Z″ (distress)
6.78safe
Accruals / assets
12.0%clean
Beneish M-Score
-2.83normal
Piotroski F-Score
7/9strong

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
87
/ 100
Profitability 100Growth 100Catalyst 33Earnings quality 100Financial strength 100

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

6 good
  • Operating margin is positive
  • Revenue is growing year-over-year
  • Conservative leverage (liabilities < 50% of assets)
  • Positive operating cash flow
  • Clean earnings (low accruals)
  • Altman Z″ in the safe zone

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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