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GENERAL CABLE CORP /DE/

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Signs2 good4 warning1 severedetails ↓

Financials

SEC XBRL · annual
 FY17FY16FY15FY14FY13FY12
Revenue$918.2M$1.00B$4.51B$5.98B$6.42B$6.06B
Operating income$9.3M−$18.3M$14.5M−$311.4M$175.8M$199.4M
Net income$12.4M−$4.7M−$121.9M−$627.6M−$10.1M$4.0M
Total assets$2.24B$2.24B$2.45B$3.35B$4.58B$4.93B
Total liabilities$2.10B$2.07B$2.19B$2.84B$3.18B$3.47B
Equity$129.2M$153.1M$228.0M$452.1M$1.28B$1.33B
EPS (diluted)$0.24$-0.10$-2.49$-12.86$-0.37$0.08
Shares out.49.6M49.1M48.9M49.2M49.7M49.8M

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
1.0%
Net margin
1.4%
Return on equity
9.6%
Return on assets
0.6%
Return on capital (ROCE)
0.6%
Liabilities / assets
94.1%
Debt / equity
16.28×
Book value / share
$2.61
Revenue growth (YoY)
−8.4%
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)
2.16grey zone
Accruals / assets
2.3%clean
Piotroski F-Score
4/9mixed

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
43
/ 100
Profitability 100Growth 0Catalyst 33Earnings quality 33Financial strength 50

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 warning2 good
  • Filed a late-filing notice (Form NT) — missed an SEC deadline
  • Revenue declined year-over-year
  • High leverage (liabilities > 70% of assets)
  • Negative operating cash flow
  • Altman Z″ in the grey zone
  • Operating margin is positive
  • Clean earnings (low accruals)

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 886,013 shares · last 11
InsiderDateTypeSharesPrice
Stark LeahOfficer — SVP and CHROJun 6, 2018D22,830$30.00
Singhal ShrutiOfficer — SVP, Pres. EuropeJun 6, 2018D24,015$30.00
Sacasa RobertoOfficer — SVP, Chief Compliance OfficerJun 6, 2018D9,716$30.00
Mogollon JuanOfficer — SVP of Latin AmericaJun 6, 2018D13,853$30.00
Moser Emerson COfficer — SVP, General Counsel &amp; Sec.Jun 6, 2018D71,534$30.00
Mcdonnell Michael TOfficer — President and CEOJun 6, 2018D377,604$30.00
Masanovich MattiOfficer — SVP and CFOJun 6, 2018D25,544$30.00
Prevost Patrick M.DirectorJun 6, 2018D1,500$30.00
Omtvedt Craig PDirectorJun 6, 2018D256,807$30.00
Lawton Gregory EDirectorJun 6, 2018D49,040$30.00
Hall, Iii Edward CDirectorJun 6, 2018D33,570$30.00

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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