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MATERIAL SCIENCES CORP

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Signs3 good1 warning1 severedetails ↓

Financials

SEC XBRL · annual
 FY13FY12FY11FY10
Revenue$121.0M$136.7M$137.6M$137.8M
Operating income$11.7M$12.0M$10.7M−$12.5M
Net income$9.0M$28.5M$12.0M−$11.6M
Total assets$127.1M$125.1M$113.9M
Total liabilities
Equity$94.9M$88.0M$78.2M
EPS (diluted)$0.86$2.49$0.93$-0.89
Shares out.10.2M10.5M12.9M13.0M

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

Key ratios

from filings · FY2013
Operating margin
9.7%
Net margin
7.4%
Return on equity
9.5%
Return on assets
7.1%
Return on capital (ROCE)
10.9%
Liabilities / assets
Debt / equity
Book value / share
$9.31
Revenue growth (YoY)
−11.5%
Net income growth (YoY)
−68.4%

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 · FY2013
Accruals / assets
1.3%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
60
/ 100
Profitability 100Growth 0Catalyst 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

1 severe1 warning3 good
  • Filed a late-filing notice (Form NT) — missed an SEC deadline
  • Revenue declined year-over-year
  • Operating margin is positive
  • 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

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

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