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Global Geophysical Services Inc

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Signs3 good4 warning3 severedetails ↓

Financials

SEC XBRL · annual
 FY13FY12FY11FY10FY09
Revenue$288.7M$339.4M$384.8M$254.7M$312.8M
Operating income−$120.2M$40.9M$43.4M−$11.0M$18.3M
Net income−$153.5M−$15.6M$4.9M−$39.7M$445,000
Total assets$392.9M$547.7M$506.4M$413.3M
Total liabilities$426.2M$443.5M$392.8M$311.4M
Equity−$33.3M$104.2M$113.6M$101.9M$63.9M
EPS (diluted)$-4.03$-0.42$0.13$-1.44$0.02
Shares out.37.7M37.0M37.0M27.5M28.8M

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

Key ratios

from filings · FY2013
Operating margin
−41.6%
Net margin
−53.2%
Return on equity
460.6%
Return on assets
−39.1%
Return on capital (ROCE)
Liabilities / assets
108.5%
Debt / equity
Book value / share
$-0.88
Revenue growth (YoY)
−15.0%
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 · FY2013
Altman Z″ (distress)
-9.45distress
Accruals / assets
53.9%clean
Piotroski F-Score
3/9weak

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
32
/ 100
Profitability 25Growth 0Catalyst 33Earnings quality 100Financial strength 0

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

3 severe4 warning3 good
  • Negative shareholder equity
  • Altman Z″ in the distress zone
  • Filed a late-filing notice (Form NT) — missed an SEC deadline
  • Operating losses (negative operating margin)
  • Reported a net loss
  • Revenue declined year-over-year
  • High leverage (liabilities > 70% of assets)
  • Strong return on equity (>15%)
  • 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.

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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