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Rocket Fuel Inc.

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Signs2 good4 warning1 severedetails ↓

Financials

SEC XBRL · annual
 FY16FY15FY14FY13FY12FY11
Revenue$456.3M$461.6M$408.6M$240.6M$106.6M$44.7M
Operating income−$57.7M−$201.6M−$60.2M−$14.7M−$7.8M−$3.8M
Net income−$65.7M−$210.5M−$64.3M−$20.9M−$10.3M−$4.3M
Total assets$302.7M$347.1M$539.3M$237.5M$75.2M
Total liabilities$215.6M$213.2M$226.5M$94.3M$34.3M
Equity$87.2M$133.9M$312.8M$143.2M$40.9M$13.4M
EPS (diluted)
Shares out.43.6M42.1M35.1M42.0M8.7M

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

Key ratios

from filings · FY2016
Operating margin
−12.6%
Net margin
−14.4%
Return on equity
−75.4%
Return on assets
−21.7%
Return on capital (ROCE)
−55.6%
Liabilities / assets
71.2%
Debt / equity
2.47×
Book value / share
$2.00
Revenue growth (YoY)
−1.2%
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 · FY2016
Altman Z″ (distress)
-4.64distress
Accruals / assets
28.6%clean
Piotroski F-Score
5/9mixed

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
37
/ 100
Profitability 0Growth 0Catalyst 33Earnings quality 100Financial 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.

Signs

1 severe4 warning2 good
  • Altman Z″ in the distress zone
  • Operating losses (negative operating margin)
  • Reported a net loss
  • Revenue declined year-over-year
  • High leverage (liabilities > 70% of assets)
  • 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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