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ESSENDANT INC

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Signs3 good4 warningdetails ↓

Financials

SEC XBRL · annual
 FY17FY16FY15FY14FY13FY12
Revenue$1.27B$1.35B$5.36B$5.33B$5.09B$5.08B
Operating income−$243.4M$117.5M$29.8M$198.6M$207.2M$200.9M
Net income−$188.6M$16.5M−$44.3M$112.1M$122.1M$111.8M
Total assets$1.77B$2.16B$2.26B$2.35B$2.12B$2.08B
Total liabilities$1.28B$1.38B$1.54B$1.50B$1.29B$1.34B
Equity$494.9M$781.1M$723.7M$843.7M$820.1M$733.8M
EPS (diluted)$-5.15$0.45$-1.18$2.87$3.03$2.73
Shares out.37.5M37.3M38.6M39.6M40.4M42.3M

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

Key ratios

from filings · FY2017
Operating margin
−19.2%
Net margin
−14.9%
Return on equity
−38.1%
Return on assets
−10.6%
Return on capital (ROCE)
−22.6%
Liabilities / assets
72.1%
Debt / equity
2.58×
Book value / share
$13.21
Revenue growth (YoY)
−6.1%
Net income growth (YoY)
−1240.9%

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 · FY2017
Altman Z″ (distress)
4.74safe
Accruals / assets
21.1%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
42
/ 100
Profitability 0Growth 0Catalyst 33Earnings quality 100Financial strength 75

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

4 warning3 good
  • 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)
  • Altman Z″ in the safe zone

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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