Event-Driven Stocks

FORMER BL STORES INC

Consumer Discretionary · Retail-Variety Stores · OH · SEC filings ↗ · Compare ⊕

Signs● 1 good● 4 warning● 1 severedetails ↓

Financials

SEC XBRL · annual
 FY24FY23FY22FY21FY20FY19
Revenue$4.72B$5.47B$6.15B$6.20B$5.32B$5.24B
Operating income−$387.4M−$261.5M$239.8M$856.5M$334.8M$218.5M
Net income−$481.9M−$210.7M$177.8M$629.2M$242.5M$156.9M
Total assets$3.33B$3.69B$3.93B$4.04B$3.19B$2.02B
Total liabilities——————
Equity$284.5M$763.9M$1.01B$1.28B$845.5M$693.0M
EPS (diluted)$-16.53$-7.30$5.33$16.11$6.16$3.83
Shares out.29.5M29.0M28.6M35.1M39.2M40.1M

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

Key ratios

from filings · FY2024
Operating margin
−8.2%
Net margin
−10.2%
Return on equity
−169.4%
Return on assets
−14.5%
Return on capital (ROCE)
−15.5%
Liabilities / assets
—
Debt / equity
—
Book value / share
$9.64
Revenue growth (YoY)
−13.6%
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 · FY2024
Accruals / assets
−6.9%clean
Piotroski F-Score
1/8weak

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
40
/ 100
Profitability 0Growth 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 severe● 4 warning● 1 good
  • Filed a late-filing notice (Form NT) — missed an SEC deadline
  • Operating losses (negative operating margin)
  • Reported a net loss
  • Revenue declined year-over-year
  • Negative 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.

5%+ owners

SEC Schedule 13D / 13G · last 3 yrs

Holders who disclosed a 5%+ stake. 13D signals intent to influence or control; 13G is a passive holding. Latest filing per holder — open it for the exact stake.

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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