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MERRILL LYNCH & CO., INC.

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Signs2 good3 warningdetails ↓

Financials

SEC XBRL · annual
 FY12FY11FY10
Revenue$6.67B$10.26B
Operating income
Net income−$1.61B$448.0M$3.88B
Total assets$602.93B$565.52B$621.63B
Total liabilities$538.53B$506.48B$571.48B
Equity$64.40B$59.04B$59.79B
EPS (diluted)
Shares out.1,000

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

Key ratios

from filings · FY2012
Operating margin
Net margin
−24.1%
Return on equity
−2.5%
Return on assets
−0.3%
Return on capital (ROCE)
Liabilities / assets
89.3%
Debt / equity
8.36×
Book value / share
$64400000.00
Revenue growth (YoY)
−35.0%
Net income growth (YoY)
−458.5%

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 · FY2012
Accruals / assets
3.2%clean
Piotroski F-Score
3/6weak

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. What these scores mean →

Signs

3 warning2 good
  • 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.

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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