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DST SYSTEMS INC

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Signs● 6 gooddetails ↓

Financials

SEC XBRL · annual
 FY17FY16FY15FY14FY13FY12
Revenue$405.5M$380.7M$1.47B$1.50B$2.66B$653.2M
Operating income$55.9M$51.7M$232.7M$262.7M$313.2M$60.1M
Net income$246.4M$58.1M$358.2M$593.3M$352.6M$55.3M
Total assets$2.94B$2.77B$2.81B$2.94B$3.09B$3.39B
Total liabilities$1.70B$1.64B$1.75B$1.71B$1.91B$2.31B
Equity$1.24B$1.12B$1.05B$1.24B$1.18B$1.08B
EPS (diluted)$3.85$0.85$4.92$14.66$8.00$1.22
Shares out.31.5M33.7M37.1M41.9M44.3M44.2M

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

Key ratios

from filings · FY2017
Operating margin
13.8%
Net margin
60.8%
Return on equity
19.9%
Return on assets
8.4%
Return on capital (ROCE)
2.8%
Liabilities / assets
57.8%
Debt / equity
1.37×
Book value / share
$39.34
Revenue growth (YoY)
6.5%
Net income growth (YoY)
324.1%

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)
2.70safe
Accruals / assets
3.2%clean
Piotroski F-Score
8/9strong

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
80
/ 100
Profitability 100Growth 100Catalyst 33Earnings quality 67Financial 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

● 6 good
  • Operating margin is positive
  • Strong return on equity (>15%)
  • Revenue is growing year-over-year
  • 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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