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LIN Media LLC

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Signs4 good1 warning1 severedetails ↓

Financials

SEC XBRL · annual
 FY13FY12FY11
Revenue$141.0M$103.2M$400.0M
Operating income$11.8M$20.5M$89.1M
Net income$158.1M−$17.4M$49.5M
Total assets$1.22B$1.24B
Total liabilities$1.11B$1.33B
Equity$89.1M−$91.6M
EPS (diluted)$-0.02$0.08$0.85
Shares out.51.9M57.5M57.1M

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

Key ratios

from filings · FY2013
Operating margin
8.4%
Net margin
112.1%
Return on equity
177.4%
Return on assets
13.0%
Return on capital (ROCE)
1.0%
Liabilities / assets
91.6%
Debt / equity
12.51×
Book value / share
$1.72
Revenue growth (YoY)
36.6%
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 · FY2013
Altman Z″ (distress)
-2.07distress
Accruals / assets
9.0%moderate
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
70
/ 100
Profitability 100Growth 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.

Signs

1 severe1 warning4 good
  • Altman Z″ in the distress zone
  • High leverage (liabilities > 70% of assets)
  • Operating margin is positive
  • Strong return on equity (>15%)
  • Revenue is growing year-over-year
  • Positive operating cash flow

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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