Event-Driven Stocks

ACETO CORP

Industrials · Wholesale-Drugs, Proprietaries & Druggists' Sundries · NY · SEC filings ↗ · Compare ⊕

Signs2 good4 warning2 severedetails ↓

Financials

SEC XBRL · annual
 FY18FY17FY16FY15FY14FY13
Revenue$186.0M$190.1M$558.5M$145.8M$510.2M$499.7M
Operating income−$275.0M$30.6M$58.0M$56.3M$44.3M$34.4M
Net income−$268.0M$5.6M$10.4M$8.4M$29.0M$22.3M
Total assets$767.0M$1.05B$540.8M$489.8M$468.0M$323.4M
Total liabilities$671.7M$649.7M$236.3M$235.6M$234.4M$128.8M
Equity$95.3M$405.1M$304.4M$254.2M$233.6M$194.6M
EPS (diluted)$-7.59$0.16$0.35$0.29$1.02$0.81
Shares out.30.8M30.1M29.6M29.4M29.0M28.1M

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

Key ratios

from filings · FY2018
Operating margin
−147.9%
Net margin
−144.1%
Return on equity
−281.2%
Return on assets
−34.9%
Return on capital (ROCE)
−59.2%
Liabilities / assets
87.6%
Debt / equity
7.05×
Book value / share
$3.09
Revenue growth (YoY)
−2.2%
Net income growth (YoY)
−4895.7%

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)
-1.09distress
Accruals / assets
48.2%clean
Piotroski F-Score
3/9weak

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
37
/ 100
Profitability 0Growth 0Catalyst 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

2 severe4 warning2 good
  • 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
  • Revenue declined year-over-year
  • High leverage (liabilities > 70% of assets)
  • 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
3 acquisitions9 disposalsnet 537,554 shares · last 12
InsiderDateTypeSharesPrice
Giordano NatashaDirectorOct 1, 2019J20,972$0.00
Rogers StevenOfficer — PresidentOct 1, 2019J34,500$0.00
Eilender Albert LDirectorOct 1, 2019J294,672$0.00
Britton William NDirectorOct 1, 2019J50,771$0.00
Kennally William C. IiiDirectorOct 1, 2019J64,334$0.00
Yarosh Daniel B.DirectorOct 1, 2019J14,916$0.00
Levin Alan GDirectorOct 1, 2019J18,248$0.00
Debenedittis FrankOfficer — Sr. Vice PresidentFeb 26, 2019Sell47,130$0.21
Scally Frances POfficer — SVP, CHIEF ACCOUNTING OFFICERDec 26, 2018Sell183$0.91
Rogers StevenOfficer — SVP, CHIEF LEGAL OFFICEROct 4, 2018Grant1,614$2.33
Eilender Albert LOfficer — ChairmanOct 4, 2018Grant4,641$2.33
Debenedittis FrankOfficer — Sr. Vice PresidentOct 4, 2018Grant1,917$2.33

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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