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Signs2 good5 warningdetails ↓

Financials

SEC XBRL · annual
 FY18FY17FY16FY15FY14FY13
Revenue$195.8M$199.3M$857.9M$961.5M$938.1M$853.7M
Operating income$6.9M−$14.1M$114.6M$201.7M$226.0M$222.6M
Net income−$6.5M−$11.3M$74.1M$43.7M$117.8M$130.0M
Total assets$2.69B$3.09B$2.50B$3.26B$3.13B$2.89B
Total liabilities$2.25B$2.47B$2.00B$2.46B$2.26B$1.75B
Equity$441.3M$616.8M$505.4M$806.4M$877.7M$1.14B
EPS (diluted)$-0.12$-0.21$1.27$0.63$1.68$1.88
Shares out.52.5M53.0M61.9M69.0M69.2M67.9M

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
3.5%
Net margin
−3.3%
Return on equity
−1.5%
Return on assets
−0.2%
Return on capital (ROCE)
0.5%
Liabilities / assets
83.6%
Debt / equity
5.09×
Book value / share
$8.41
Revenue growth (YoY)
−1.8%
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)
1.55grey zone
Accruals / assets
2.7%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
31
/ 100
Profitability 40Growth 0Catalyst 33Earnings quality 33Financial 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

5 warning2 good
  • Reported a net loss
  • Revenue declined year-over-year
  • High leverage (liabilities > 70% of assets)
  • Negative operating cash flow
  • Altman Z″ in the grey zone
  • Operating margin is positive
  • 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 acquisitions1 disposalsnet 6.7M shares · last 1
InsiderDateTypeSharesPrice
Loeb Daniel SDirectorOct 3, 2019D6.7M$57.00

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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Event-driven situations (1)