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VALASSIS COMMUNICATIONS INC

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Signs● 4 good● 2 warningdetails ↓

Financials

SEC XBRL · annual
 FY12FY11FY10FY09
Revenue$518.6M$547.0M$550.0M$551.2M
Operating income$213.3M$224.0M$715.1M$183.0M
Net income$26.4M$21.4M$322.5M$13.0M
Total assets$1.59B$1.64B$1.85B—
Total liabilities$1.12B$1.19B$1.32B—
Equity$473.6M$449.5M$528.9M$97.9M
EPS (diluted)$0.60$0.41$6.26$0.27
Shares out.42.7M42.3M50.4M49.3M

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
41.1%
Net margin
5.1%
Return on equity
5.6%
Return on assets
1.7%
Return on capital (ROCE)
18.7%
Liabilities / assets
70.2%
Debt / equity
2.36×
Book value / share
$11.09
Revenue growth (YoY)
−5.2%
Net income growth (YoY)
23.4%

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
Altman Z″ (distress)
4.28safe
Accruals / assets
−7.5%clean
Beneish M-Score
-2.86normal
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
72
/ 100
Profitability 100Growth 50Catalyst 33Earnings quality 100Financial 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

● 2 warning● 4 good
  • Revenue declined year-over-year
  • High leverage (liabilities > 70% of assets)
  • Operating margin is positive
  • 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
0 acquisitions1 disposalsnet −12,253 shares · last 1
InsiderDateTypeSharesPrice
Schalek Linda JFeb 4, 2014U12,253$34.04

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)