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SCHOOL SPECIALTY INC

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Signs● 2 good● 4 warning● 2 severedetails ↓

Financials

SEC XBRL · annual
 FY19FY18FY17FY16FY15FY14
Revenue$95.9M$99.3M$97.1M$656.3M——
Operating income−$20.8M−$21.3M−$13.1M$23.0M−$13.1M$2.5M
Net income−$25.0M−$18.7M−$16.8M$14.8M−$33.5M−$17.5M
Total assets$234.7M$270.7M$312.4M$287.6M$307.7M$310.6M
Total liabilities$216.0M$203.3M$204.9M$189.5M$241.3M$236.6M
Equity$18.8M$67.4M$107.5M$98.1M$81.6M$103.1M
EPS (diluted)$-7.06$-5.53$0.97$2.11$-4.79$-17.49
Shares out.7.0M7.0M1.0M7.0M1.0M1.0M

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

Key ratios

from filings · FY2019
Operating margin
−21.7%
Net margin
−26.0%
Return on equity
−133.0%
Return on assets
−10.6%
Return on capital (ROCE)
−71.0%
Liabilities / assets
92.0%
Debt / equity
11.50×
Book value / share
$2.68
Revenue growth (YoY)
−3.4%
Net income growth (YoY)
—

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 · FY2019
Altman Z″ (distress)
-3.41distress
Accruals / assets
−16.4%clean
Piotroski F-Score
4/9mixed

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
32
/ 100
Profitability 0Growth 0Catalyst 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● 4 warning● 2 good
  • Altman Z″ in the distress zone
  • Filed a late-filing notice (Form NT) — missed an SEC deadline
  • Operating losses (negative operating margin)
  • Reported a net loss
  • Revenue declined year-over-year
  • High leverage (liabilities > 70% of assets)
  • 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.

Risk flags

late SEC filings

A Form NT means the company notified the SEC it would file a periodic report late — often an accounting, audit or liquidity warning sign. Also search SEC enforcement actions for this company.

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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