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Viacom Inc.

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Financials

SEC XBRL · annual
 FY19FY18FY17FY16FY15FY14
Revenue$2.96B$3.15B$13.26B$12.49B$13.27B$13.78B
Operating income$573.0M$456.0M$2.49B$2.53B$3.11B$4.08B
Net income$376.0M$266.0M$1.87B$1.44B$1.92B$2.39B
Total assets$23.67B$23.78B$23.70B$22.51B$22.14B$23.05B
Total liabilities
Equity$8.45B$7.41B$6.04B$4.28B$3.54B$3.72B
EPS (diluted)$0.93$0.66$4.68$3.61$4.73$5.43
Shares out.403.8M403.0M400.6M398.0M406.0M440.2M

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

Key ratios

from filings · FY2019
Operating margin
19.4%
Net margin
12.7%
Return on equity
4.4%
Return on assets
1.6%
Return on capital (ROCE)
2.9%
Liabilities / assets
Debt / equity
Book value / share
$20.94
Revenue growth (YoY)
−6.0%
Net income growth (YoY)
41.4%

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 · FY2019
Accruals / assets
5.1%clean
Piotroski F-Score
5/8mixed

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
77
/ 100
Profitability 100Growth 50Catalyst 33Earnings quality 100Financial strength 100

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 warning3 good
  • Revenue declined year-over-year
  • Operating margin is positive
  • 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.

Insider transactions

SEC Form 4 · most recent
0 acquisitions12 disposalsnet 26.0M shares · last 12
InsiderDateTypeSharesPrice
Redstone Sumner MDirectorDec 4, 2019D25.1M
Phillips Jr Charles EDirectorDec 4, 2019D75,969
Nelson Ronald LDirectorDec 4, 2019D29,835
Seligman NicoleDirectorDec 4, 2019D9,954
Redstone ShariDirectorDec 4, 2019D121,600
Mchale JudithDirectorDec 4, 2019D14,924
Bakish Robert MOfficer — President and CEODec 4, 2019D406,198
Dalimonte Christa AOfficer — EVP, General Counsel &amp; SecyDec 4, 2019D28,195
Davis WadeOfficer — EVP, CFODec 4, 2019D133,431
Gill Charest KatherineOfficer — SVP, Controller &amp; CAODec 4, 2019D16,613
Phelps JuliaOfficer — EVP, Comms, Culture &amp; MktingDec 4, 2019D9,342
Lea DedeOfficer — EVP, Global Government AffairsDec 4, 2019D49,912

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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  • 15-12BDec 16, 2019
  • 4Dec 6, 2019
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  • 4Dec 6, 2019
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