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Tower Group International, Ltd.

Financials · Fire, Marine & Casualty Insurance · D0 · SEC filings ↗ · Compare ⊕

Signs1 good3 warning1 severedetails ↓

Financials

SEC XBRL · annual
 FY13FY12FY11FY10FY09FY08
Revenue$476.5M$466.2M$1.78B$1.46B$983.1M$484.4M
Operating income
Net income$12.9M$19.2M$44.4M$106.4M$96.8M$57.5M
Total assets$23.9M$4.71B$4.45B$4.18B$3.31B
Total liabilities$23.9M$3.73B$3.39B$3.11B$2.26B
Equity$95.6M$950.1M$1.03B$1.05B$1.02B$319.2M
EPS (diluted)$0.28$0.43$0.96$2.44$2.45$2.45
Shares out.38.4M39.2M41.5M41.5M45.0M23.5M

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

Key ratios

from filings · FY2013
Operating margin
Net margin
2.7%
Return on equity
13.5%
Return on assets
54.0%
Return on capital (ROCE)
Liabilities / assets
100.0%
Debt / equity
0.25×
Book value / share
$2.49
Revenue growth (YoY)
2.2%
Net income growth (YoY)
−32.6%

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
1518.7%high accruals
Piotroski F-Score
4/7mixed

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
47
/ 100
Profitability 100Growth 50Catalyst 33Earnings quality 0Financial 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.

Signs

1 severe3 warning1 good
  • Filed a late-filing notice (Form NT) — missed an SEC deadline
  • High leverage (liabilities > 70% of assets)
  • Negative operating cash flow
  • High accruals — earnings-quality risk
  • Revenue is growing year-over-year

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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