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Cobalt International Energy, Inc.

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Signs3 good3 warning1 severedetails ↓

Financials

SEC XBRL · annual
 FY17FY16FY15FY14FY13FY12
Revenue$9.9M$1.6M
Operating income−$481.0M−$2.26B−$638.7M−$441.9M−$348.2M−$284.8M
Net income−$306.3M−$46.6M−$81.6M
Total assets$1.60B$2.23B$4.06B$4.45B$3.63B$4.01B
Total liabilities
Equity−$1.79B−$841.3M$1.45B$2.11B$2.13B$2.69B
EPS (diluted)
Shares out.447.3M29.4M414.5M411.3M411.3M410.6M

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

Key ratios

from filings · FY2017
Operating margin
−4874.9%
Net margin
−3103.8%
Return on equity
17.1%
Return on assets
−19.2%
Return on capital (ROCE)
−33.5%
Liabilities / assets
Debt / equity
Book value / share
$-4.01
Revenue growth (YoY)
503.1%
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 · FY2017
Accruals / assets
3.9%clean
Piotroski F-Score
4/8mixed

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
54
/ 100
Profitability 20Growth 100Catalyst 33Earnings quality 67Financial strength 50

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 severe3 warning3 good
  • Negative shareholder equity
  • Operating losses (negative operating margin)
  • Reported a net loss
  • Negative operating cash flow
  • Strong return on equity (>15%)
  • Revenue is growing year-over-year
  • 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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