Event-Driven Stocks

EXPRESS SCRIPTS INC

Consumer Discretionary · Retail-Drug Stores and Proprietary Stores · DE · SEC filings ↗ · Compare ⊕

Signs4 good2 warningdetails ↓

Financials

SEC XBRL · annual
 FY11FY10FY09FY08FY07
Revenue$11.09B$11.14B$24.72B$21.94B$21.82B
Operating income$552.4M$454.7M$1.50B$1.27B$1.06B
Net income$326.5M$260.2M$827.6M$776.1M$567.8M
Total assets$15.61B$10.56B$11.93B$5.51B
Total liabilities$13.13B$6.95B$8.38B$4.43B
Equity$2.47B$3.61B$3.55B$1.08B$696.4M
EPS (diluted)$0.61$0.47$1.56$1.54$2.15
Shares out.528.3M275.3M275.0M247.6M264.0M

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

Key ratios

from filings · FY2011
Operating margin
5.0%
Net margin
2.9%
Return on equity
13.2%
Return on assets
2.1%
Return on capital (ROCE)
5.4%
Liabilities / assets
84.2%
Debt / equity
5.31×
Book value / share
$4.68
Revenue growth (YoY)
−0.4%
Net income growth (YoY)
25.5%

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 · FY2011
Altman Z″ (distress)
2.92safe
Accruals / assets
12.0%clean
Beneish M-Score
-3.20normal
Piotroski F-Score
5/9mixed

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 warning4 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.

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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