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FIRSTCITY FINANCIAL CORP

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Signs1 good2 warning1 severedetails ↓

Financials

SEC XBRL · annual
 FY12FY11FY10
Revenue$19.8M$20.8M$85.6M
Operating income
Net income$8.4M$3.7M$25.9M
Total assets$244.6M$356.3M$460.4M
Total liabilities$107.4M$218.9M$335.7M
Equity$128.7M$112.0M$88.3M
EPS (diluted)$0.80$0.36$1.23
Shares out.10.4M10.4M10.3M

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

Key ratios

from filings · FY2012
Operating margin
Net margin
42.3%
Return on equity
6.5%
Return on assets
3.4%
Return on capital (ROCE)
Liabilities / assets
43.9%
Debt / equity
0.83×
Book value / share
$12.36
Revenue growth (YoY)
−4.8%
Net income growth (YoY)
124.6%

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 · FY2012
Accruals / assets
5.3%moderate
Piotroski F-Score
4/7mixed

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
63
/ 100
Profitability 100Growth 50Catalyst 33Earnings quality 33Financial 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. What these scores mean →

Signs

1 severe2 warning1 good
  • Filed a late-filing notice (Form NT) — missed an SEC deadline
  • Revenue declined year-over-year
  • Negative operating cash flow
  • Conservative leverage (liabilities < 50% of assets)

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
0 acquisitions11 disposalsnet 486,062 shares · last 11
InsiderDateTypeSharesPrice
Wilson C IvanDirectorMay 17, 2013D52,979
Sartain James TOfficer — President &amp; CEOMay 17, 2013D34,485
Hunter D MichaelDirectorMay 17, 2013D47,459
Hendry William PeterDirectorMay 17, 2013D7,644
Miller F ClaytonDirectorMay 17, 2013D12,549
Horrell Mark BOfficer — Vice PresidentMay 17, 2013D36,091
Moore Jim WOfficer — Chief Operating OfficerMay 17, 2013D67,374
Garrison Robert E IiDirectorMay 17, 2013D130,809
Holmes James ChristopherOfficer — Senior Vice PresidentMay 17, 2013D59,198
Dewitt Terrence RileyOfficer — Senior Vice PresidentMay 17, 2013D32,074
Fulmer DaneDirectorMay 17, 2013D5,400

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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