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CISION LTD.

Technology · Services-Prepackaged Software · E9 · SEC filings ↗ · Compare ⊕

Signs● 4 good● 2 warning● 1 severedetails ↓

Financials

SEC XBRL · annual
 FY18FY17FY16FY15
Revenue$179.3M$145.8M$467.8M$334.0M
Operating income$69.6M$38.0M−$19.6M−$27.6M
Net income−$442,000−$23.0M−$98.4M−$90.5M
Total assets$1.87B$1.94B$1.79B—
Total liabilities$1.58B$1.62B$2.15B—
Equity$288.3M$316.4M−$359.8M−$206.7M
EPS (diluted)————
Shares out.124.4M120.5M28.4M—

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

Key ratios

from filings · FY2018
Operating margin
38.8%
Net margin
−0.2%
Return on equity
−0.2%
Return on assets
−0.0%
Return on capital (ROCE)
4.4%
Liabilities / assets
84.6%
Debt / equity
5.47×
Book value / share
$2.32
Revenue growth (YoY)
23.0%
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 · FY2018
Altman Z″ (distress)
-0.44distress
Accruals / assets
−6.8%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
60
/ 100
Profitability 40Growth 100Catalyst 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 severe● 2 warning● 4 good
  • Altman Z″ in the distress zone
  • Reported a net loss
  • High leverage (liabilities > 70% of assets)
  • Operating margin is positive
  • 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.

Insider transactions

SEC Form 4 · most recent
0 acquisitions1 disposalsnet −9,623 shares · last 1
InsiderDateTypeSharesPrice
Master Stephen P.DirectorJan 31, 2020D9,623—

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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