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WESTMORELAND COAL Co

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Signs2 good4 warning3 severedetails ↓

Financials

SEC XBRL · annual
 FY17FY16FY15FY14FY13FY12
Revenue$1.38B$1.48B$1.42B$1.13B$674.7M$600.4M
Operating income−$11.1M$7.6M−$145.7M−$48.7M$25.4M$28.9M
Net income−$71.3M−$27.1M−$213.6M−$175.8M−$4.7M−$7.2M
Total assets$1.39B$1.58B$1.42B$1.74B$941.3M$936.1M
Total liabilities$2.13B$2.28B$2.18B$2.17B$1.13B$1.22B
Equity−$739.0M−$688.1M−$455.3M−$364.7M−$187.9M−$271.6M
EPS (diluted)$-0.67$-1.30$-0.19$0.04
Shares out.18.6M18.3M17.8M14.8M14.3M13.9M

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

Key ratios

from filings · FY2017
Operating margin
−0.8%
Net margin
−5.2%
Return on equity
9.7%
Return on assets
−5.1%
Return on capital (ROCE)
−7.8%
Liabilities / assets
153.5%
Debt / equity
Book value / share
$-39.79
Revenue growth (YoY)
−6.3%
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 · FY2017
Altman Z″ (distress)
-6.63distress
Accruals / assets
13.4%clean
Beneish M-Score
-3.38normal
Piotroski F-Score
3/9weak

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
31
/ 100
Profitability 20Growth 0Catalyst 33Earnings quality 100Financial strength 0

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

3 severe4 warning2 good
  • Negative shareholder equity
  • 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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