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SPARK NETWORKS INC

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Signs2 good4 warning1 severedetails ↓

Financials

SEC XBRL · annual
 FY16FY15FY14FY13FY12FY11
Revenue$9.9M$13.5M$16.6M$17.3M$61.7M$48.5M
Operating income−$3.5M$926,000−$938,000−$12.1M−$9.2M−$1.1M
Net income−$3.4M$723,000−$1.1M−$12.4M−$15.0M−$1.6M
Total assets$31.8M$33.1M$31.0M$35.3M$28.4M$37.9M
Total liabilities$9.8M$14.1M$15.3M$20.1M$16.8M$13.3M
Equity$22.1M$19.0M$15.8M$15.1M$11.5M$24.7M
EPS (diluted)$-0.12$-0.14
Shares out.25.8M24.7M23.9M21.0M20.6M20.6M

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
−35.3%
Net margin
−34.6%
Return on equity
−15.4%
Return on assets
−10.7%
Return on capital (ROCE)
−14.3%
Liabilities / assets
30.7%
Debt / equity
0.44×
Book value / share
$0.85
Revenue growth (YoY)
−26.9%
Net income growth (YoY)
−571.4%

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)
-3.80distress
Accruals / assets
6.3%clean
Beneish M-Score
-3.07normal
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
35
/ 100
Profitability 0Growth 0Catalyst 33Earnings quality 67Financial 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. What these scores mean →

Signs

1 severe4 warning2 good
  • Altman Z″ in the distress zone
  • Operating losses (negative operating margin)
  • Reported a net loss
  • Revenue declined year-over-year
  • Negative operating cash flow
  • Conservative leverage (liabilities < 50% of assets)
  • 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 acquisitions4 disposalsnet 5.3M shares · last 4
InsiderDateTypeSharesPrice
Peak6 Investments, L.P.DirectorNov 2, 2017D5.0M
Turek WalterDirectorNov 2, 2017D181,336
Rosenthal Daniel MaxOfficer — Chief Executive OfficerNov 2, 2017D17,000
Osmium Partners, LlcDirectorNov 2, 2017D127,492

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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