STAPLES INC
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Financials
SEC XBRL · annual| FY17 | FY16 | FY15 | FY14 | FY13 | FY12 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | $18.25B | $18.76B | $19.68B | $23.11B | $24.38B | $24.66B |
| Operating income | −$264.0M | $713.0M | $296.0M | $1.18B | $510.1M | $1.63B |
| Net income | −$1.50B | $379.0M | $135.0M | $620.1M | −$210.7M | $984.7M |
| Total assets | $8.27B | $10.17B | $10.31B | $11.17B | $12.28B | $13.43B |
| Total liabilities | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Equity | $3.69B | $5.38B | $5.30B | $6.13B | $6.13B | $7.02B |
| EPS (diluted) | $-2.31 | $0.59 | $0.21 | $0.94 | $-0.31 | $1.40 |
| Shares out. | 652.5M | 645.8M | 640.5M | 650.7M | 668.4M | 694.1M |
Reported figures from the company's SEC filings (XBRL). Blank where a line item isn't cleanly tagged — never estimated.
Key ratios
from filings · FY2017- Operating margin
- −1.4%
- Net margin
- −8.2%
- Return on equity
- −40.6%
- Return on assets
- −18.1%
- Return on capital (ROCE)
- −5.7%
- Liabilities / assets
- —
- Debt / equity
- —
- Book value / share
- $5.65
- Revenue growth (YoY)
- −2.8%
- Net income growth (YoY)
- −495.0%
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- Accruals / assets
- −29.4%clean
- Piotroski F-Score
- 3/8weak
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 ScoreOur 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 warning● 2 good- Operating losses (negative operating margin)
- Reported a net loss
- Revenue declined year-over-year
- 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- Entered a material agreement · Terminated a material agreement · New financial obligationSep 12, 2017
- Completed an acquisition or disposition · Delisting / listing-standard notice · Modified shareholder rights · Change in control · Director / officer change · Amended charter or bylawsSep 12, 2017
- Director / officer changeSep 11, 2017
- Shareholder voteSep 6, 2017
- Entered a material agreement · New financial obligationAug 28, 2017
- Other material eventAug 25, 2017
- Results of operationsAug 24, 2017
- Results of operations · Regulation FD disclosureAug 10, 2017
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
All filings ↗- SC TO-CNov 8, 2021
- SC TO-CJun 4, 2021
- SC TO-CMar 31, 2021
- SC TO-CJan 11, 2021
- SC 13D/AFeb 4, 2019
- SC TO-T/AJan 31, 2019
- SC TO-T/AJan 29, 2019
- SC TO-T/AJan 24, 2019
- SC TO-T/AJan 17, 2019
- SC TO-T/AJan 15, 2019
- SC TO-T/AJan 10, 2019
- SC TO-T/AJan 3, 2019
- SC TO-T/ADec 27, 2018
- SC TO-T/ADec 19, 2018
- SC TO-T/ADec 12, 2018
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