Ascent Capital Group, Inc.
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Financials
SEC XBRL · annual| FY18 | FY17 | FY16 | FY15 | FY14 | FY13 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | $133.8M | $141.2M | $570.4M | — | — | — |
| Operating income | $6.6M | $19.7M | $55.6M | $49.4M | $78.2M | $71.6M |
| Net income | −$30.8M | −$18.9M | −$91.2M | −$83.4M | −$37.8M | −$21.5M |
| Total assets | $1.41B | $2.05B | $2.13B | $2.17B | $2.16B | $2.23B |
| Total liabilities | $1.98B | $1.91B | $1.89B | $1.85B | $1.72B | $1.71B |
| Equity | −$565.4M | $142.7M | $238.6M | $324.8M | $439.7M | $514.8M |
| EPS (diluted) | — | — | — | — | — | $0.19 |
| Shares out. | — | — | — | — | — | — |
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
- 4.9%
- Net margin
- −23.1%
- Return on equity
- 5.5%
- Return on assets
- −2.2%
- Return on capital (ROCE)
- —
- Liabilities / assets
- 140.0%
- Debt / equity
- —
- Book value / share
- —
- Revenue growth (YoY)
- −5.3%
- 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 · FY2018- Altman Z″ (distress)
- -13.31distress
- Accruals / assets
- −8.8%clean
- Beneish M-Score
- -0.97elevated
- Piotroski F-Score
- 3/8weak
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 ScoreOur 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 severe● 4 warning● 3 good- Negative shareholder equity
- Altman Z″ in the distress zone
- Reported a net loss
- Revenue declined year-over-year
- High leverage (liabilities > 70% of assets)
- Beneish M-Score elevated — earnings-manipulation screen flag
- 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- Completed an acquisition or disposition · Delisting / listing-standard notice · Modified shareholder rights · Change in control · Director / officer change · Amended charter or bylaws · Regulation FD disclosureSep 6, 2019
- Entered a material agreement · Other material eventAug 26, 2019
- Shareholder vote · Regulation FD disclosureAug 21, 2019
- Bankruptcy or receivership · Other material eventAug 13, 2019
- Other material eventAug 8, 2019
- Results of operations · Other material eventAug 7, 2019
- Regulation FD disclosureJul 25, 2019
- Regulation FD disclosureJul 17, 2019
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
All filings ↗Event-driven situations (3)
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