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MEDCO HEALTH SOLUTIONS INC

Consumer Discretionary · Retail-Drug Stores and Proprietary Stores · DE · SEC filings ↗ · Compare ⊕

Signs5 good2 warningdetails ↓

Financials

SEC XBRL · annual
 FY11FY10FY09FY08FY07
Revenue$70.06B$65.97B$59.80B$51.26B$44.51B
Operating income$2.59B$2.50B$2.27B$2.02B
Net income$1.46B$1.43B$1.28B$1.10B$912.0M
Total assets$16.96B$17.10B$17.92B$17.01B
Total liabilities$12.95B$13.11B$11.53B$11.05B
Equity$4.01B$3.99B$6.39B$5.96B$6.88B
EPS (diluted)$3.62$3.16$2.61$2.13$1.63
Shares out.404.5M464.1M490.0M518.6M560.9M

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

Key ratios

from filings · FY2011
Operating margin
3.7%
Net margin
2.1%
Return on equity
36.3%
Return on assets
8.6%
Return on capital (ROCE)
31.5%
Liabilities / assets
76.4%
Debt / equity
3.23×
Book value / share
$9.91
Revenue growth (YoY)
6.2%
Net income growth (YoY)
2.0%

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 · FY2011
Altman Z″ (distress)
2.10grey zone
Accruals / assets
1.0%clean
Piotroski F-Score
6/9mixed

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
65
/ 100
Profitability 100Growth 100Catalyst 33Earnings quality 67Financial 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 warning5 good
  • High leverage (liabilities > 70% of assets)
  • Altman Z″ in the grey zone
  • 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.

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

All filings ↗

Corporate family

Spun off from MerckMRK · Aug 19, 2003

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