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Guidance Software, Inc.

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Financials

SEC XBRL · annual
 FY16FY15FY14FY13FY12FY11
Revenue$25.8M$25.0M$108.7M$110.5M$129.5M$104.6M
Operating income−$6.7M−$3.8M−$15.1M−$21.3M−$1.8M−$1.6M
Net income−$6.8M−$3.8M−$14.7M−$21.5M−$2.0M−$1.6M
Total assets$74.4M$82.3M$85.8M$89.2M$100.6M$77.3M
Total liabilities
Equity−$55,000$11.2M$17.2M$24.0M$39.0M$24.3M
EPS (diluted)$-0.24$-0.14$-0.55$-0.83$-0.08$-0.07
Shares out.30.6M29.9M29.0M25.6M23.6M23.3M

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
−26.1%
Net margin
−26.3%
Return on equity
12349.1%
Return on assets
−9.1%
Return on capital (ROCE)
−50.6%
Liabilities / assets
Debt / equity
Book value / share
$-0.00
Revenue growth (YoY)
3.2%
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 · FY2016
Accruals / assets
1.3%clean
Piotroski F-Score
1/8weak

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
37
/ 100
Profitability 20Growth 100Catalyst 33Earnings quality 33Financial strength 0

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 severe3 warning3 good
  • Negative shareholder equity
  • Operating losses (negative operating margin)
  • Reported a net loss
  • Negative operating cash flow
  • Strong return on equity (>15%)
  • Revenue is growing year-over-year
  • Clean earnings (low accruals)

Derived from the company's own SEC figures (fundamentals, forensic scores, filing discipline) — descriptive factors, not advice or a forecast.

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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