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Signs6 gooddetails ↓

Financials

SEC XBRL · annual
 FY15FY14FY13FY12FY11FY10
Revenue$3.52B$3.37B$3.31B$3.15B$3.26B$2.39B
Operating income$164.5M$138.4M$432.4M$363.7M$313.2M$164.4M
Net income$104.1M$102.5M$318.8M$260.2M$194.4M$120.6M
Total assets$5.39B$5.63B$5.33B$5.36B$5.10B$4.57B
Total liabilities$2.45B$2.52B$2.59B$2.90B$2.50B
Equity$2.93B$3.10B$2.72B$2.43B$2.59B$1.96B
EPS (diluted)$1.49$1.39$4.46$3.59$2.62$2.03
Shares out.69.3M70.2M71.6M72.5M74.1M59.4M

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

Key ratios

from filings · FY2015
Operating margin
4.7%
Net margin
3.0%
Return on equity
3.6%
Return on assets
1.9%
Return on capital (ROCE)
3.9%
Liabilities / assets
45.4%
Debt / equity
0.83×
Book value / share
$42.32
Revenue growth (YoY)
4.5%
Net income growth (YoY)
1.6%

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 · FY2015
Altman Z″ (distress)
3.57safe
Accruals / assets
8.7%clean
Piotroski F-Score
7/9strong

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
87
/ 100
Profitability 100Growth 100Catalyst 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.

Signs

6 good
  • Operating margin is positive
  • Revenue is growing year-over-year
  • Conservative leverage (liabilities < 50% of assets)
  • 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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