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US Ecology, Inc.

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Financials

SEC XBRL · annual
 FY21FY20FY19FY18FY17
Revenue$988.0M$933.9M$685.5M$565.9M$504.0M
Operating income$33.3M−$360.9M$68.7M$74.1M$59.8M
Net income$5.3M−$389.4M$33.1M$49.6M$49.4M
Total assets$1.81B$1.83B$2.23B$947.9M$802.1M
Total liabilities$1.18B$1.23B$1.22B$588.7M
Equity$624.3M$601.9M$1.01B$359.2M$324.1M
EPS (diluted)$0.17$-12.51$1.40$2.25$2.25
Shares out.31.5M31.5M31.5M22.0M21.9M

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

Key ratios

from filings · FY2021
Operating margin
3.4%
Net margin
0.5%
Return on equity
0.9%
Return on assets
0.3%
Return on capital (ROCE)
2.1%
Liabilities / assets
65.4%
Debt / equity
1.89×
Book value / share
$19.82
Revenue growth (YoY)
5.8%
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 · FY2021
Altman Z″ (distress)
0.99distress
Accruals / assets
6.1%clean
Piotroski F-Score
8/9strong

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
77
/ 100
Profitability 100Growth 100Catalyst 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 good
  • Altman Z″ in the distress zone
  • 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.

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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