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BECKMAN COULTER INC

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Signs5 gooddetails ↓

Financials

SEC XBRL · annual
 FY10FY09FY08
Revenue$3.66B$3.26B$3.10B
Operating income$399.5M$231.2M$284.5M
Net income$230.7M$147.1M$186.0M
Total assets$4.88B$4.68B
Total liabilities$2.75B$2.72B
Equity$2.13B$1.96B$1.48B
EPS (diluted)$3.25$2.18$2.89
Shares out.70.3M69.6M64.3M

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

Key ratios

from filings · FY2010
Operating margin
10.9%
Net margin
6.3%
Return on equity
10.8%
Return on assets
4.7%
Return on capital (ROCE)
10.3%
Liabilities / assets
56.3%
Debt / equity
1.29×
Book value / share
$30.32
Revenue growth (YoY)
12.4%
Net income growth (YoY)
56.8%

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 · FY2010
Altman Z″ (distress)
4.01safe
Accruals / assets
8.6%clean
Beneish M-Score
-2.92normal
Piotroski F-Score
7/9strong

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
87
/ 100
Profitability 100Growth 100Catalyst 33Earnings quality 100Financial 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.

Signs

5 good
  • Operating margin is positive
  • Revenue is growing year-over-year
  • Positive operating cash flow
  • 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.

Insider transactions

SEC Form 4 · most recent
1 acquisitions11 disposalsnet 58,658.297 shares · last 12
InsiderDateTypeSharesPrice
Williams Lewis TDirectorJun 30, 2011D1,368$83.50
Woods BettyDirectorJun 30, 2011D24,364.04$83.50
Wallace Richard PDirectorJun 30, 2011D1,378$83.50
Schafer Glenn SDirectorJun 30, 2011D4,948$83.50
Salka Susan RDirectorJun 30, 2011D3,608$83.50
Kelley Willam NDirectorJun 30, 2011D7,689.083$83.50
Honeycutt Van BDirectorJun 30, 2011D4,677.639$83.50
Haggerty Charles ADirectorJun 30, 2011D7,655.093$83.50
Funari Robert GDirectorJun 30, 2011D4,491$83.50
Farr Kevin MDirectorJun 30, 2011D5,758$83.50
Dervan Peter BDirectorJun 30, 2011D7,081.442$83.50
Hurley James ROfficer — Interim President and CEOJun 30, 2011Grant14,360$0.00

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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