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Express Scripts Holding Co.

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Signs3 good1 warning1 severedetails ↓

Financials

SEC XBRL · annual
 FY17FY16FY15FY14FY13FY12
Revenue$24.65B$24.79B$101.75B$100.89B$104.10B$93.71B
Operating income$1.05B$940.8M$4.34B$3.60B$3.55B$2.79B
Net income$546.3M$526.1M$2.48B$2.01B$1.84B$1.31B
Total assets$54.26B$51.74B$53.24B$53.75B$53.55B$58.11B
Total liabilities$36.13B$35.50B$35.86B$33.68B$31.70B$34.72B
Equity$18.12B$16.24B$17.37B$20.05B$21.84B$23.39B
EPS (diluted)$0.90$0.81$3.56$2.64$2.25$1.76
Shares out.605.7M668.0M726.9M776.0M818.5M818.1M

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
4.3%
Net margin
2.2%
Return on equity
3.0%
Return on assets
1.0%
Return on capital (ROCE)
2.9%
Liabilities / assets
66.6%
Debt / equity
1.99×
Book value / share
$29.91
Revenue growth (YoY)
−0.6%
Net income growth (YoY)
3.8%

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
Altman Z″ (distress)
0.93distress
Accruals / assets
8.9%clean
Beneish M-Score
-2.87normal
Piotroski F-Score
6/9mixed

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
62
/ 100
Profitability 100Growth 50Catalyst 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

1 severe1 warning3 good
  • Altman Z″ in the distress zone
  • Revenue declined year-over-year
  • 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

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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