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Essex Rental Corp.

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Signs1 good5 warning2 severedetails ↓

Financials

SEC XBRL · annual
 FY14FY13FY12FY11FY10FY09
Revenue$21.1M$25.1M$23.7M$21.5M$41.5M$52.1M
Operating income−$2.0M−$642,000−$3.9M−$4.4M−$7.8M$7.9M
Net income−$3.2M−$2.2M−$4.7M−$4.7M−$11.4M$1.2M
Total assets$325.9M$332.8M$354.1M$380.9M$383.0M
Total liabilities$270.4M$266.7M$279.8M$296.9M$304.7M
Equity$55.5M$66.1M$74.2M$84.0M$78.3M$74.1M
EPS (diluted)$-0.13$-0.09$-0.19$-0.21$-0.71$0.08
Shares out.24.8M24.6M24.5M24.4M20.5M15.8M

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

Key ratios

from filings · FY2014
Operating margin
−9.5%
Net margin
−15.0%
Return on equity
−5.7%
Return on assets
−1.0%
Return on capital (ROCE)
−1.2%
Liabilities / assets
83.0%
Debt / equity
4.87×
Book value / share
$2.24
Revenue growth (YoY)
−15.9%
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 · FY2014
Altman Z″ (distress)
-2.99distress
Accruals / assets
2.1%clean
Piotroski F-Score
1/9weak

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
18
/ 100
Profitability 0Growth 0Catalyst 33Earnings quality 33Financial strength 25

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

2 severe5 warning1 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
  • High leverage (liabilities > 70% of assets)
  • Negative 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.

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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