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JOURNAL COMMUNICATIONS INC

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Financials

SEC XBRL · annual
 FY14FY13FY12FY11FY10FY09
Revenue$96.6M$93.2M$393.1M$351.5M$376.8M$365.5M
Operating income$71.7M$51.3M$58.7M$39.5M$53.0M$9.6M
Net income$12.2M$3.8M$33.3M$22.2M$34.4M$4.3M
Total assets$580.5M$596.0M$625.8M$417.7M$431.8M
Total liabilities
Equity$279.7M$250.1M$205.5M$206.2M$208.9M$171.1M
EPS (diluted)$0.24$0.08$0.61$0.37$0.59$0.05
Shares out.50.7M50.4M50.1M51.1M50.8M

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

Key ratios

from filings · FY2014
Operating margin
74.3%
Net margin
12.6%
Return on equity
4.4%
Return on assets
2.1%
Return on capital (ROCE)
14.5%
Liabilities / assets
Debt / equity
Book value / share
$5.51
Revenue growth (YoY)
3.7%
Net income growth (YoY)
221.3%

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 · FY2014
Accruals / assets
12.1%clean
Piotroski F-Score
6/8mixed

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. What these scores mean →

Signs

4 good
  • Operating margin is positive
  • 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.

Insider transactions

SEC Form 4 · most recent
0 acquisitions2 disposalsnet 7,100 shares · last 2
InsiderDateTypeSharesPrice
Stanek Mary EllenDirectorMar 31, 2015J7,000$0.00
Smith Steven JOfficer — Chairman of the Board and CEOMar 31, 2015J100$0.00

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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