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Financials

SEC XBRL · annual
 FY16FY15FY14FY13FY12FY11
Revenue$200.7M$179.3M$520.6M$450.8M$370.3M$283.4M
Operating income$20.8M$4.2M$47.2M$45.5M$36.4M$25.9M
Net income$91.2M−$119.0M$24.8M$23.4M$25.3M$18.5M
Total assets$2.04B$1.98B$1.04B$897.9M$705.6M$491.2M
Total liabilities$1.52B$1.53B$704.2M$615.0M$488.5M$342.6M
Equity$517.0M$449.1M$337.3M$282.9M$217.0M$148.6M
EPS (diluted)$0.25$-0.54$0.67$0.64$0.73$0.56
Shares out.41.6M41.6M36.6M35.5M17.2M16.0M

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

Key ratios

from filings · FY2016
Operating margin
10.4%
Net margin
45.5%
Return on equity
17.6%
Return on assets
4.5%
Return on capital (ROCE)
1.6%
Liabilities / assets
74.6%
Debt / equity
2.94×
Book value / share
$12.43
Revenue growth (YoY)
11.9%
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 · FY2016
Altman Z″ (distress)
0.03distress
Accruals / assets
1.0%clean
Piotroski F-Score
8/9strong

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
77
/ 100
Profitability 100Growth 100Catalyst 33Earnings quality 100Financial strength 50

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

2 severe1 warning5 good
  • Altman Z″ in the distress zone
  • Filed a late-filing notice (Form NT) — missed an SEC deadline
  • High leverage (liabilities > 70% of assets)
  • Operating margin is positive
  • Strong return on equity (>15%)
  • Revenue is growing year-over-year
  • 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.

Insider transactions

SEC Form 4 · most recent
0 acquisitions12 disposalsnet 270,263 shares · last 12
InsiderDateTypeSharesPrice
Zumwalt Leanne MDirectorNov 17, 2017D4,423
Van Hoose MaryOfficer — Chief Talent OfficerNov 17, 2017D38,469
Shapiro LeonDirectorNov 17, 2017D19,216
Schwartz Richard AOfficer — Chief Operating OfficerNov 17, 2017D18,363
Neaman Mark RDirectorNov 17, 2017D25,316
Musslewhite Robert WOfficer — Chief Executive OfficerNov 17, 2017D19,929
Miller Cormac FOfficer — Chief Product OfficerNov 17, 2017D20,769
Kirshbaum Michael TOfficer — Chief Financial OfficerOct 26, 2017Gift373$0.00
Kindick KeltDirectorNov 17, 2017D31,808
Killefer NancyDirectorNov 17, 2017D12,856
Grua Peter JDirectorNov 17, 2017D18,216
Felsenthal David LOfficer — PresidentNov 17, 2017D60,525

Headline trade per Form 4 (officers, directors, 10%+ owners). Buy/sell read from the filing's structured data — blank where a field isn't cleanly tagged.

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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