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Ceres, Inc.

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Signs2 good3 warning1 severedetails ↓

Financials

SEC XBRL · annual
 FY15FY14FY13FY12FY11FY10
Revenue$2.7M$2.4M$1.0M$1.3M$1.6M$6.6M
Operating income−$28.2M−$29.3M−$9.0M−$7.0M−$5.2M−$22.2M
Net income−$28.2M−$29.3M−$9.0M−$6.8M−$5.4M−$22.6M
Total assets$11.1M$32.4M$37.2M$69.2M$36.8M
Total liabilities$6.9M$4.8M$4.2M$6.7M$43.6M
Equity$4.2M$27.6M$33.0M$62.6M−$204.3M−$170.8M
EPS (diluted)
Shares out.8.8M48.3M25.2M24.8M2.0M

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

Key ratios

from filings · FY2015
Operating margin
−1035.9%
Net margin
−1035.1%
Return on equity
−668.3%
Return on assets
−253.2%
Return on capital (ROCE)
−477.6%
Liabilities / assets
62.1%
Debt / equity
1.64×
Book value / share
$0.48
Revenue growth (YoY)
13.1%
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 · FY2015
Altman Z″ (distress)
-111.04distress
Accruals / assets
44.4%clean
Piotroski F-Score
4/9mixed

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
50
/ 100
Profitability 0Growth 100Catalyst 33Earnings quality 67Financial 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.

Signs

1 severe3 warning2 good
  • Altman Z″ in the distress zone
  • Operating losses (negative operating margin)
  • Reported a net loss
  • Negative operating cash flow
  • Revenue is growing year-over-year
  • Clean earnings (low accruals)

Derived from the company's own SEC figures (fundamentals, forensic scores, filing discipline) — descriptive factors, not advice or a forecast.

Insider transactions

SEC Form 4 · most recent
0 acquisitions6 disposalsnet 90,130 shares · last 6
InsiderDateTypeSharesPrice
Hamilton Richard WilliamOfficer — President and CEOAug 1, 2016U26,199$0.40
Goldberg Robert BruceDirectorAug 1, 2016U23,503$0.40
Flavell Richard BaileyDirectorAug 1, 2016U14,022$0.40
Brandys PascalDirectorAug 1, 2016U7,320$0.40
Van Assche Wilfriede Margareta MariaOfficer — SVP &amp; Gen. Counsel &amp; SecretaryAug 1, 2016U5,228$0.40
Kuc PaulOfficer — Chief Financial OfficerAug 1, 2016U13,858$0.40

Headline trade per Form 4 (officers, directors, 10%+ owners). Buy/sell read from the filing's structured data — blank where a field isn't cleanly tagged.

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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