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LYDALL INC /DE/

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Financials

SEC XBRL · annual
 FY20FY19FY18FY17FY16FY15
Revenue$764.0M$837.4M$785.9M$698.4M$566.9M$524.5M
Operating income−$62.1M−$38.8M$49.2M$66.2M$55.4M$52.5M
Net income−$73.7M−$70.5M$34.9M$49.3M$37.2M$46.3M
Total assets$775.5M$785.9M$872.7M$560.9M$527.0M$358.3M
Total liabilities
Equity$257.7M$318.4M$369.3M$353.4M$273.5M$245.2M
EPS (diluted)$-4.24$-4.08$2.02$2.85$2.16$2.71
Shares out.17.6M17.5M17.4M17.2M17.1M17.3M

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

Key ratios

from filings · FY2020
Operating margin
−8.1%
Net margin
−9.6%
Return on equity
−28.6%
Return on assets
−9.5%
Return on capital (ROCE)
−10.6%
Liabilities / assets
Debt / equity
Book value / share
$14.62
Revenue growth (YoY)
−8.8%
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 · FY2020
Accruals / assets
19.1%clean
Piotroski F-Score
2/8weak

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
47
/ 100
Profitability 0Growth 0Catalyst 33Earnings quality 100Financial strength 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

3 warning2 good
  • Operating losses (negative operating margin)
  • Reported a net loss
  • Revenue declined 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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