Houston Wire & Cable CO
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Financials
SEC XBRL · annual| FY20 | FY19 | FY18 | FY17 | FY16 | FY15 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | $83,533 | $85,270 | $356.9M | $317.7M | $261.6M | $308.1M |
| Operating income | $1,586 | $3,863 | $13.9M | $4.6M | −$6.5M | $6.0M |
| Net income | $545 | $2,284 | $8.6M | −$222,000 | −$6.0M | $2.0M |
| Total assets | $157.7M | $240.1M | $203.1M | $194.0M | $175.9M | $159.1M |
| Total liabilities | $65.8M | $136.5M | $102.4M | $103.3M | $85.7M | $59.1M |
| Equity | $91.9M | $103.6M | $100.7M | $90.7M | $90.1M | $100.0M |
| EPS (diluted) | $0.03 | $0.14 | $0.52 | $-0.01 | $-0.37 | $0.12 |
| Shares out. | 16.6M | 16.6M | 16.5M | 16.5M | 16.6M | 17.4M |
Reported figures from the company's SEC filings (XBRL). Blank where a line item isn't cleanly tagged — never estimated.
Key ratios
from filings · FY2020- Operating margin
- 1.9%
- Net margin
- 0.7%
- Return on equity
- 0.0%
- Return on assets
- 0.0%
- Return on capital (ROCE)
- 0.0%
- Liabilities / assets
- 41.7%
- Debt / equity
- 0.72×
- Book value / share
- $5.55
- Revenue growth (YoY)
- −2.0%
- Net income growth (YoY)
- −76.1%
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 · FY2020- Altman Z″ (distress)
- 7.27safe
- Accruals / assets
- −23.4%clean
- Piotroski F-Score
- 7/9strong
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 ScoreOur 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 severe● 1 warning● 5 good- Filed a late-filing notice (Form NT) — missed an SEC deadline
- Revenue declined year-over-year
- Operating margin is positive
- Conservative leverage (liabilities < 50% of assets)
- Positive operating cash flow
- Clean earnings (low accruals)
- Altman Z″ in the safe zone
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- NT 10-Kmissed a reporting deadline ↗Mar 17, 2017
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| Insider | Date | Type | Shares | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nierenberg DavidDirector | Jun 15, 2021 | D | 664,888 | — |
| Pokluda James L IiiOfficer — President & CEO | Jun 15, 2021 | D | 674,047 | — |
| Davis Eric WayneOfficer — VP & CFO | Jun 15, 2021 | D | 77,652 | — |
| Zurovchak Jerry MichaelOfficer — Senior VP & COO | Jun 15, 2021 | D | 2,604 | — |
| Yetman G GaryDirector | Jun 15, 2021 | D | 29,718 | — |
| Haley Roy WDirector | Jun 15, 2021 | D | 349,930 | — |
| Sheffield William HDirector | Jun 15, 2021 | D | 30,000 | — |
| Rothe Sandford W.Director | Jun 15, 2021 | D | 24,000 | — |
| Laird MargaretDirector | Jun 15, 2021 | D | 500 | — |
| Pokluda James L IiiOfficer — PRESIDENT & CEO | Dec 31, 2020 | Option exercise | 12,500 | $0.00 |
| Davis Eric WayneOfficer — VP & CFO | Dec 11, 2020 | Option exercise | 1,026 | $0.00 |
| Pokluda James L IiiOfficer — PRESIDENT & CEO | Dec 11, 2018 | Option exercise | 15,385 | $0.00 |
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- Shareholder voteJun 21, 2021
- Terminated a material agreement · Completed an acquisition or disposition · Delisting / listing-standard notice · Modified shareholder rights · Change in control · Director / officer change · Amended charter or bylaws · Other material eventJun 15, 2021
- Other material eventJun 7, 2021
- Entered a material agreement · Other material eventMar 25, 2021
- Regulation FD disclosureMar 15, 2021
- Regulation FD disclosureJan 14, 2021
- Completed an acquisition or disposition · Regulation FD disclosureJan 6, 2021
- Entered a material agreement · Regulation FD disclosureDec 3, 2020
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
All filings ↗- 25-NSEAug 24, 2021
- SC 13G/AJul 12, 2021
- 15-12BJun 25, 2021
- 4PRIMARY DOCUMENTJun 21, 2021
- 8-KFORM 8-KJun 21, 2021
- 4PRIMARY DOCUMENTJun 17, 2021
- 4PRIMARY DOCUMENTJun 17, 2021
- 4PRIMARY DOCUMENTJun 17, 2021
- 4PRIMARY DOCUMENTJun 17, 2021
- 4PRIMARY DOCUMENTJun 17, 2021
- 4PRIMARY DOCUMENTJun 17, 2021
- 4PRIMARY DOCUMENTJun 17, 2021
- 4PRIMARY DOCUMENTJun 17, 2021
- S-8 POSJun 15, 2021
- S-8 POSJun 15, 2021
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