Event-Driven Stocks

BON TON STORES INC

Consumer Discretionary · Retail-Department Stores · PA · SEC filings ↗ · Compare ⊕

Signs4 good4 warning1 severedetails ↓

Financials

SEC XBRL · annual
 FY17FY16FY15FY14FY13FY12
Revenue$2.67B$2.79B$2.82B$2.83B$2.98B$2.95B
Operating income$2.6M$9.8M$56.5M$69.4M$70.0M$66.6M
Net income−$63.4M−$57.1M−$7.0M−$3.6M−$21.6M−$12.1M
Total assets$1.51B$1.55B$1.59B$1.58B$1.63B$1.62B
Total liabilities$1.53B$1.52B$1.51B$1.45B$1.52B$1.49B
Equity−$22.8M$34.9M$87.6M$128.0M$110.6M$131.6M
EPS (diluted)$-3.18$-2.90$-0.36$-0.19$-1.16$-0.67
Shares out.19.9M19.7M19.4M19.1M18.5M18.1M

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

Key ratios

from filings · FY2017
Operating margin
0.1%
Net margin
−2.4%
Return on equity
278.4%
Return on assets
−4.2%
Return on capital (ROCE)
0.2%
Liabilities / assets
101.5%
Debt / equity
Book value / share
$-1.14
Revenue growth (YoY)
−4.1%
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 · FY2017
Altman Z″ (distress)
1.75grey zone
Accruals / assets
8.1%clean
Piotroski F-Score
2/9weak

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
50
/ 100
Profitability 60Growth 0Catalyst 67Earnings quality 100Financial strength 25

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 severe4 warning4 good
  • Negative shareholder equity
  • Reported a net loss
  • Revenue declined year-over-year
  • High leverage (liabilities > 70% of assets)
  • Altman Z″ in the grey zone
  • Operating margin is positive
  • Strong return on equity (>15%)
  • Positive operating cash flow
  • 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
1 acquisitions1 disposals1 open-market buy(s)net 10,625 shares · last 2
InsiderDateTypeSharesPrice
Bufano KathrynOfficer — President and CEOAug 25, 2017Tax withholding30,625$0.00
Rigby Paul EDirectorMay 26, 2017Buy20,000$0.59

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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