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MEDIA GENERAL INC

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Signs4 good1 warning2 severedetails ↓

Financials

SEC XBRL · annual
 FY15FY14FY13FY12FY11FY10
Revenue$1.30B$675.0M$269.9M$228.2M$174.5M$678.1M
Operating income$20.6M$115.1M$33.8M$55.5M$21.3M$41.6M
Net income−$7.4M$53.5M$6.1M$35.9M$103.9M−$22.6M
Total assets$4.41B$4.74B$1.92B$483.2M$1.09B$1.18B
Total liabilities$2.94B$3.21B$1.19B$196.2M
Equity$1.45B$1.50B$737.0M$286.9M$34.0M$163.9M
EPS (diluted)$-0.06$0.58$0.10$0.53$1.14
Shares out.091.1M64.1M68.1M91.3M

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

Key ratios

from filings · FY2015
Operating margin
1.6%
Net margin
−0.6%
Return on equity
−0.5%
Return on assets
−0.2%
Return on capital (ROCE)
0.5%
Liabilities / assets
66.6%
Debt / equity
2.03×
Book value / share
Revenue growth (YoY)
93.3%
Net income growth (YoY)
−113.9%

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 · FY2015
Altman Z″ (distress)
0.97distress
Accruals / assets
3.7%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
55
/ 100
Profitability 40Growth 50Catalyst 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. What these scores mean →

Signs

2 severe1 warning4 good
  • Altman Z″ in the distress zone
  • Filed a late-filing notice (Form NT) — missed an SEC deadline
  • Reported a net loss
  • 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.

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.

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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