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DATAWATCH CORP

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Signs2 good3 warning1 severedetails ↓

Financials

SEC XBRL · annual
 FY18FY17FY16FY15FY14FY13
Revenue$41.7M$36.3M$30.5M$30.2M$35.1M$30.3M
Operating income−$3.7M−$1.2M−$3.5M−$4.0M−$39.5M−$5.5M
Net income−$3.9M−$449,000−$3.4M−$4.0M−$36.9M−$5.6M
Total assets$61.7M$50.4M$48.4M$58.9M$103.6M$68.9M
Total liabilities$35.2M$17.9M$14.5M$13.4M$12.7M$17.5M
Equity$26.5M$32.5M$34.0M$45.5M$90.9M$51.4M
EPS (diluted)$-0.31$-0.04$-0.29$-0.34$-3.31$-0.66
Shares out.12.8M12.3M11.9M11.6M11.1M8.5M

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

Key ratios

from filings · FY2018
Operating margin
−9.0%
Net margin
−9.3%
Return on equity
−14.6%
Return on assets
−6.3%
Return on capital (ROCE)
−10.3%
Liabilities / assets
57.0%
Debt / equity
1.33×
Book value / share
$2.07
Revenue growth (YoY)
14.9%
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 · FY2018
Altman Z″ (distress)
-5.63distress
Accruals / assets
5.4%clean
Piotroski F-Score
1/9weak

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
55
/ 100
Profitability 0Growth 100Catalyst 33Earnings quality 67Financial strength 75

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.

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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