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Alberto-Culver CO

Consumer Staples · Perfumes, Cosmetics & Other Toilet Preparations · DE · SEC filings ↗ · Compare ⊕

Signs6 gooddetails ↓

Financials

SEC XBRL · annual
 FY10FY09FY08
Revenue$1.60B$1.43B$1.44B
Operating income$220.2M$183.2M$161.2M
Net income$155.3M$119.4M$228.2M
Total assets$1.88B$1.56B
Total liabilities$551.0M$356.6M
Equity$1.32B$1.20B$1.11B
EPS (diluted)$1.56$1.20$2.27
Shares out.98.9M99.1M100.6M

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

Key ratios

from filings · FY2010
Operating margin
13.8%
Net margin
9.7%
Return on equity
11.7%
Return on assets
8.3%
Return on capital (ROCE)
13.8%
Liabilities / assets
29.3%
Debt / equity
0.42×
Book value / share
$13.40
Revenue growth (YoY)
11.4%
Net income growth (YoY)
30.1%

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 · FY2010
Altman Z″ (distress)
6.70safe
Accruals / assets
0.9%clean
Beneish M-Score
-2.12normal
Piotroski F-Score
5/9mixed

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
80
/ 100
Profitability 100Growth 100Catalyst 33Earnings quality 67Financial 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. What these scores mean →

Signs

6 good
  • Operating margin is positive
  • Revenue is growing year-over-year
  • 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.

Insider transactions

SEC Form 4 · most recent
0 acquisitions12 disposalsnet 1.8M shares · last 12
InsiderDateTypeSharesPrice
Lavin Leonard H /Il/DirectorMay 10, 2011D132,678$37.50
Bernick Carol LOfficer — Executive ChairmanMay 10, 2011D1.5M$37.50
Harris King WDirectorMay 10, 2011D15,600$37.50
Nicoletti Ralph JOfficer — Executive VP &amp; Chief Fin. Off.May 10, 2011D41,702$37.50
Susser Sam JDirectorMay 10, 2011D8,100$37.50
Rock Robert HDirectorMay 10, 2011D11,122$37.50
Fotiades George LDirectorMay 10, 2011D8,100$37.50
Edgar JimDirectorMay 10, 2011D8,100$37.50
Dattilo Thomas ADirectorMay 10, 2011D9,100$37.50
Brocksmith James G JrDirectorMay 10, 2011D8,100$37.50
Keller Kenneth C JrOfficer — President, USMay 10, 2011D25,745$37.50
Oleksiuk MaryOfficer — Sr. VP, Global HRMay 10, 2011D17,300$37.50

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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Corporate family

Spun off from Alberto-Culver · Nov 15, 2006

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