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Forbes Energy Services Ltd.

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Signs3 good3 warning2 severedetails ↓

Financials

SEC XBRL · annual
 FY19FY18FY17FY16FY15FY14
Revenue$188.4M$180.9M$30.8M
Operating income−$43.9M−$21.9M−$18.0M−$81.1M$356,000$16.8M
Net income−$68.4M−$32.6M$27.2M−$109.1M−$46.1M−$8.3M
Total assets$190.3M$256.4M$216.4M$312.9M$409.2M$1.13B
Total liabilities$166.3M$165.0M$68.8M$340.1M$327.1M$355.1M
Equity$24.0M$91.4M$122.9M−$42.5M$67.4M$113.9M
EPS (diluted)$-2.12$-0.42
Shares out.5.4M5.3M22.2M22.2M21.9M21.6M

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

Key ratios

from filings · FY2019
Operating margin
−23.3%
Net margin
−36.3%
Return on equity
−285.5%
Return on assets
−35.9%
Return on capital (ROCE)
−47.9%
Liabilities / assets
87.4%
Debt / equity
6.94×
Book value / share
$4.40
Revenue growth (YoY)
4.2%
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 · FY2019
Altman Z″ (distress)
-5.41distress
Accruals / assets
40.8%clean
Piotroski F-Score
3/9weak

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
52
/ 100
Profitability 0Growth 100Catalyst 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.

Signs

2 severe3 warning3 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
  • High leverage (liabilities > 70% of assets)
  • Revenue is growing year-over-year
  • 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.

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.

Insider transactions

SEC Form 4 · most recent
1 acquisitions0 disposalsnet +963,116 shares · last 1
InsiderDateTypeSharesPrice
Ascribe Capital Llc10% ownerApr 16, 2020J963,116

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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