AMERICAN GREETINGS CORP

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Signs● 4 good● 1 warning● 1 severedetails ↓

Financials

SEC XBRL · annual

	FY16	FY15	FY14	FY13	FY12	FY11
Revenue	$1.90B	$2.01B	$1.97B	$1.87B	$1.70B	$1.60B
Operating income	$219.0M	$144.4M	$136.9M	$94.2M	$150.0M	$178.2M
Net income	$129.8M	$65.1M	$50.5M	$49.9M	$57.2M	$87.0M
Total assets	$1.60B	$1.54B	$1.60B	$1.58B	$1.55B	$1.55B
Total liabilities	—	—	—	—	—	—
Equity	$429.3M	$329.3M	$327.4M	$681.9M	$727.5M	$763.8M
EPS (diluted)	—	—	—	$1.47	$1.42	$2.11
Shares out.	100	100	100	34.0M	40.3M	41.2M

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

Key ratios

from filings · FY2016

Operating margin: 11.5%
Net margin: 6.8%
Return on equity: 30.2%
Return on assets: 8.1%
Return on capital (ROCE): 17.9%
Liabilities / assets: —
Debt / equity: —
Book value / share: $4292940.00
Revenue growth (YoY): −5.5%
Net income growth (YoY): 99.4%

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 · FY2016

Accruals / assets: 0.2%clean
Piotroski F-Score: 5/8mixed

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

/ 100

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● 1 warning● 4 good

Filed a late-filing notice (Form NT) — missed an SEC deadline
Revenue declined year-over-year
Operating margin is positive
Strong return on equity (>15%)
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

NT 10-Kmissed a reporting deadline ↗May 29, 2014

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

All filings ↗

8-KFeb 22, 2017
10-QFORM 10-QJan 6, 2017
10-QFORM 10-QOct 7, 2016
10-QJul 8, 2016
8-KJun 3, 2016
10-KFORM 10-KMay 26, 2016
SDMay 26, 2016
10-QFORM 10-QJan 8, 2016
10-QFORM 10-QOct 9, 2015
10-QJul 10, 2015
8-KFORM 8-KJun 29, 2015
SDFORM SDMay 29, 2015
10-KMay 15, 2015
8-KFORM 8-KFeb 6, 2015
10-QFORM 10-QJan 9, 2015

Event-driven situations (3)

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