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HFF, Inc.

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Signs5 gooddetails ↓

Financials

SEC XBRL · annual
 FY18FY17FY16FY15FY14FY13
Revenue$596.3M$138.8M$517.4M$502.0M$425.9M$355.6M
Operating income$2.7M$20.8M$95.8M$107.8M$84.8M$70.0M
Net income$17.1M$19.7M$77.2M$84.0M$61.3M$51.4M
Total assets$858.1M$892.2M$716.7M$742.5M$604.3M$488.2M
Total liabilities$507.5M$605.7M$480.1M$528.0M$417.8M$312.6M
Equity$350.5M$286.5M$236.5M$214.5M$186.4M$175.6M
EPS (diluted)$0.42$0.50$1.99$2.18$1.61$1.36
Shares out.38.7M38.2M38.0M37.7M37.3M37.1M

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

Key ratios

from filings · FY2018
Operating margin
0.5%
Net margin
2.9%
Return on equity
4.9%
Return on assets
2.0%
Return on capital (ROCE)
0.7%
Liabilities / assets
59.1%
Debt / equity
1.45×
Book value / share
$9.05
Revenue growth (YoY)
329.6%
Net income growth (YoY)
−13.2%

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 · FY2018
Altman Z″ (distress)
3.21safe
Accruals / assets
14.8%clean
Piotroski F-Score
6/9mixed

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
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. What these scores mean →

Signs

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

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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