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Alta Mesa Resources, Inc. /DE

Energy · Crude Petroleum & Natural Gas · DE · SEC filings ↗ · Compare ⊕

Signs4 good4 warning3 severedetails ↓

Financials

SEC XBRL · annual
 FY19FY18FY17FY16
Revenue$500.2M$40.1M
Operating income−$874.4M−$1.8M−$2.4M−$2,000
Net income−$450.5M−$14.9M$1.9M−$2,000
Total assets$498.6M$1.36B$1.04B$395,052
Total liabilities$1.21B$1.14B$40.6M$372,052
Equity−$470.6M−$29.4M$5.0M$23,000
EPS (diluted)$-0.08$0.01$0.00
Shares out.129.4M25.9M

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

Key ratios

from filings · FY2019
Operating margin
−174.8%
Net margin
−90.1%
Return on equity
95.7%
Return on assets
−90.4%
Return on capital (ROCE)
−423.8%
Liabilities / assets
241.8%
Debt / equity
Book value / share
Revenue growth (YoY)
1146.3%
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 · FY2019
Altman Z″ (distress)
-26.82distress
Accruals / assets
119.2%clean
Beneish M-Score
1.69elevated
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
51
/ 100
Profitability 20Growth 100Catalyst 33Earnings quality 100Financial strength 0

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

3 severe4 warning4 good
  • Negative shareholder equity
  • Altman Z″ in the distress zone
  • Filed a late-filing notice (Form NT) — missed an SEC deadline
  • Operating losses (negative operating margin)
  • Reported a net loss
  • High leverage (liabilities > 70% of assets)
  • Beneish M-Score elevated — earnings-manipulation screen flag
  • Strong return on equity (>15%)
  • Revenue is growing year-over-year
  • 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.

Risk flags

late SEC filings

A Form NT means the company notified the SEC it would file a periodic report late — often an accounting, audit or liquidity warning sign. Also search SEC enforcement actions for this company.

Insider transactions

SEC Form 4 · most recent
1 acquisitions0 disposalsnet +178,680 shares · last 1
InsiderDateTypeSharesPrice
Hps Investment Partners, Llc10% ownerAug 9, 2019Conversion178,680

Headline trade per Form 4 (officers, directors, 10%+ owners). Buy/sell read from the filing's structured data — blank where a field isn't cleanly tagged.

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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