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Life Technologies Corp

Healthcare · Biological Products, (No Diagnostic Substances) · DE · SEC filings ↗ · Compare ⊕

Signs5 good1 warningdetails ↓

Financials

SEC XBRL · annual
 FY12FY11FY10FY09FY08
Revenue$939.1M$895.9M$3.59B$3.28B$1.62B
Operating income$665.2M$647.8M$612.4M$385.9M$167.0M
Net income$132.6M$93.7M$378.3M$144.6M$5.7M
Total assets$8.64B$9.19B$9.49B$9.12B
Total liabilities$3.98B$4.59B$5.05B$5.09B
Equity$4.65B$4.60B$4.43B$4.03B$3.46B
EPS (diluted)$0.72$0.50$1.99$0.80$0.05
Shares out.178.3M180.0M190.6M181.4M103.7M

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

Key ratios

from filings · FY2012
Operating margin
70.8%
Net margin
14.1%
Return on equity
2.9%
Return on assets
1.5%
Return on capital (ROCE)
8.9%
Liabilities / assets
46.1%
Debt / equity
0.86×
Book value / share
$26.10
Revenue growth (YoY)
4.8%
Net income growth (YoY)
41.6%

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 · FY2012
Altman Z″ (distress)
2.58grey zone
Accruals / assets
7.5%clean
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
82
/ 100
Profitability 100Growth 100Catalyst 33Earnings quality 100Financial strength 75

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 warning5 good
  • Altman Z″ in the grey zone
  • Operating margin is positive
  • Revenue is growing year-over-year
  • Conservative leverage (liabilities < 50% 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.

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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