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NEUSTAR INC

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Signs3 gooddetails ↓

Financials

SEC XBRL · annual
 FY16FY15FY14FY13FY12FY11
Revenue
Operating income$64.4M$79.5M$261.3M$289.3M$276.7M$209.0M
Net income$31.4M$46.2M$163.7M$162.8M$156.1M$160.8M
Total assets$2.10B$2.20B$1.72B$1.51B$1.53B$1.38B
Total liabilities$1.18B$1.48B$1.10B$919.3M$880.1M$880.0M
Equity$921.3M$723.5M$619.5M$589.6M$646.6M$502.6M
EPS (diluted)$0.57$0.81$2.75$2.46$2.30$2.16
Shares out.55.5M55.9M59.5M66.1M68.0M74.5M

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
Net margin
Return on equity
3.4%
Return on assets
1.5%
Return on capital (ROCE)
3.7%
Liabilities / assets
56.1%
Debt / equity
1.28×
Book value / share
$16.60
Revenue growth (YoY)
Net income growth (YoY)
−32.1%

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 · FY2016
Altman Z″ (distress)
2.65safe
Accruals / assets
14.5%clean
Piotroski F-Score
6/7mixed

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
62
/ 100
Profitability 100Growth 0Catalyst 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.

Signs

3 good
  • Positive operating cash flow
  • Clean earnings (low accruals)
  • Altman Z″ in the safe zone

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 acquisitions12 disposalsnet 850,426 shares · last 12
InsiderDateTypeSharesPrice
Skorny HenryOfficer — SVP, IOTAug 8, 2017D1,051$33.50
Runtagh Hellene SDirectorAug 8, 2017D11,340$33.50
Rowny Michael JDirectorAug 8, 2017D4,768$33.50
Rieman DeborahDirectorAug 8, 2017D6,516$33.50
Lalljie Paul SOfficer — Senior Vice President and CFOAug 8, 2017D230,693$33.50
Lacouture Paul ADirectorAug 8, 2017D10,187$33.50
Kennedy Leonard JOfficer — SVP, General Counsel &amp; SecAug 8, 2017D44,908$33.50
Ireland Ross KDirectorAug 8, 2017D1,800$33.50
Hook LisaOfficer — President and CEOAug 8, 2017D433,573$33.50
Greene Mark NDirectorAug 8, 2017D20,613$33.50
Friedman Joel PDirectorAug 8, 2017D27,032$33.50
Edwards SteveOfficer — SVP, Data SolutionsAug 8, 2017D57,945$33.50

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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