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SEVCON, INC.

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Signs3 good3 warning1 severedetails ↓

Financials

SEC XBRL · annual
 FY16FY15FY14FY13FY12FY11
Revenue$49.8M$41.1M$37.9M$32.2M$35.5M$32.3M
Operating income−$5.3M$1.9M$1.0M−$948,000$1.5M$1.1M
Net income−$5.8M$1.6M$731,000−$1.1M$1.2M$712,000
Total assets$69.0M$35.6M$34.0M$23.4M$23.6M$22.9M
Total liabilities$47.2M$19.8M$17.5M$16.1M$17.1M$15.5M
Equity$21.7M$15.7M$16.3M$7.2M$6.5M$7.5M
EPS (diluted)$-1.51$0.32$0.19$-0.32$0.35$0.21
Shares out.5.3M3.7M3.6M03.5M3.4M

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

Key ratios

from filings · FY2016
Operating margin
−10.7%
Net margin
−11.7%
Return on equity
−26.7%
Return on assets
−8.4%
Return on capital (ROCE)
−10.1%
Liabilities / assets
68.4%
Debt / equity
2.17×
Book value / share
$4.07
Revenue growth (YoY)
21.0%
Net income growth (YoY)
−469.1%

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 · FY2016
Altman Z″ (distress)
2.78safe
Accruals / assets
0.6%clean
Beneish M-Score
-1.95normal
Piotroski F-Score
0/9weak

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
38
/ 100
Profitability 0Growth 50Catalyst 33Earnings quality 33Financial 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 warning3 good
  • Filed a late-filing notice (Form NT) — missed an SEC deadline
  • Operating losses (negative operating margin)
  • Reported a net loss
  • Negative operating cash flow
  • Revenue is growing year-over-year
  • Clean earnings (low accruals)
  • Altman Z″ in the safe zone

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.

Insider transactions

SEC Form 4 · most recent
1 acquisitions9 disposalsnet 1.4M shares · last 10
InsiderDateTypeSharesPrice
Meson Constructive Capital Lp10% ownerSep 27, 2017J614,000$22.00
Bassi Holding S.R.L.10% ownerSep 27, 2017J610,000$22.00
Bassi AndreaOfficer — General Manager, Bassi S.r.lSep 27, 2017D10,000$22.00
Steadman David RaDirectorSep 27, 2017D46,500$22.00
Boyle MatthewOfficer — President and CEOSep 27, 2017Option exercise4,615$8.75
Angiolillo GlennDirectorSep 27, 2017D14,000$22.00
Goldfarb MatthewDirectorSep 27, 2017D8,000$22.00
Farquhar Paul NeilOfficer — Vice President and CFOSep 27, 2017Option exercise4,615$8.75
Stump Paul ODirectorSep 27, 2017D32,500$22.00
Morris Ryan J.DirectorSep 27, 2017D19,991$22.00

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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