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NATIONAL TECHNICAL SYSTEMS INC /CA/

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Signs2 good1 severedetails ↓

Financials

SEC XBRL · annual
 FY13FY12FY11
Revenue
Operating income$12.7M$5.1M$7.8M
Net income$4.4M$491,000$5.3M
Total assets$164.6M$152.7M$129.3M
Total liabilities
Equity$68.2M$63.3M$55.0M
EPS (diluted)$0.37$0.04$0.05
Shares out.11.5M11.3M10.2M

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

Key ratios

from filings · FY2013
Operating margin
Net margin
Return on equity
6.5%
Return on assets
2.7%
Return on capital (ROCE)
9.4%
Liabilities / assets
Debt / equity
Book value / share
$5.94
Revenue growth (YoY)
Net income growth (YoY)
805.1%

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 · FY2013
Accruals / assets
6.4%clean
Piotroski F-Score
4/6mixed

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.

Signs

1 severe2 good
  • Filed a late-filing notice (Form NT) — missed an SEC deadline
  • 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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