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CAI International, Inc.

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Signs3 good2 warning1 severedetails ↓

Financials

SEC XBRL · annual
 FY20FY19FY18FY17FY16FY15
Revenue$69.1M$75.5M$284.9M$315.9M$294.4M$249.7M
Operating income$32.4M$36.8M$150.1M$98.5M$53.3M$67.4M
Net income$27.7M$31.0M$78.6M$72.1M$6.0M$13.5M
Total assets$2.61B$2.90B$3.01B$2.43B$2.06B$1.97B
Total liabilities$1.91B$2.21B$2.31B$1.86B$1.60B$1.51B
Equity$702.2M$693.2M$701.1M$563.8M$457.5M$459.2M
EPS (diluted)$0.59$0.73$3.71$3.68$0.31$1.27
Shares out.17.5M18.7M20.5M19.1M19.9M20.8M

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

Key ratios

from filings · FY2020
Operating margin
46.9%
Net margin
40.1%
Return on equity
3.9%
Return on assets
1.1%
Return on capital (ROCE)
1.4%
Liabilities / assets
73.1%
Debt / equity
2.72×
Book value / share
$40.16
Revenue growth (YoY)
−8.5%
Net income growth (YoY)
−10.6%

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)
0.83distress
Accruals / assets
9.5%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
52
/ 100
Profitability 100Growth 0Catalyst 33Earnings quality 100Financial 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

1 severe2 warning3 good
  • Altman Z″ in the distress zone
  • Revenue declined year-over-year
  • High leverage (liabilities > 70% of assets)
  • Operating margin is positive
  • Positive 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.

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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