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VERIFONE SYSTEMS, INC.

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Signs2 good3 warning2 severedetails ↓

Financials

SEC XBRL · annual
 FY17FY16FY15FY14FY13FY12
Revenue$1.87B$1.99B$2.00B$1.87B$1.70B$1.87B
Operating income−$112.4M$32.8M$107.0M$5.9M−$66.4M$147.5M
Net income−$173.8M−$9.3M$79.1M−$38.1M−$296.1M$65.0M
Total assets$2.32B$2.49B$2.47B$2.68B$2.99B$3.49B
Total liabilities$1.54B$1.64B$1.54B$1.61B$1.84B$2.15B
Equity$754.6M$813.7M$899.5M$1.03B$1.11B$1.31B
EPS (diluted)$-1.55$-0.08$0.68$-0.34$-2.73$0.59
Shares out.112.4M111.3M111.7M113.3M110.4M108.0M

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

Key ratios

from filings · FY2017
Operating margin
−6.0%
Net margin
−9.3%
Return on equity
−23.0%
Return on assets
−7.5%
Return on capital (ROCE)
−6.3%
Liabilities / assets
66.3%
Debt / equity
2.04×
Book value / share
$6.71
Revenue growth (YoY)
−6.1%
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 · FY2017
Altman Z″ (distress)
-0.42distress
Accruals / assets
14.6%clean
Beneish M-Score
-3.14normal
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
37
/ 100
Profitability 0Growth 0Catalyst 33Earnings quality 100Financial 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

2 severe3 warning2 good
  • 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
  • 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.

Insider transactions

SEC Form 4 · most recent
0 acquisitions2 disposalsnet 50,233 shares · last 2
InsiderDateTypeSharesPrice
Varma VikramOfficer — General Counsel and SecretaryAug 20, 2018D45,733
Thompson Jane J.DirectorAug 20, 2018D4,500

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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