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BARNES & NOBLE INC

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Signs4 good1 warning1 severedetails ↓

Financials

SEC XBRL · annual
 FY19FY18FY17FY16FY15FY14
Revenue$1.23B$1.23B$3.89B$4.16B$4.30B$4.63B
Operating income$16.5M−$127.9M$54.3M$14.7M$90.2M−$37.0M
Net income$66.9M−$63.5M$22.0M−$24.4M$36.6M−$47.3M
Total assets$1.71B$1.75B$1.93B$2.01B$3.11B$3.54B
Total liabilities
Equity$444.5M$412.0M$574.3M$603.5M$1.19B$658.7M
EPS (diluted)$0.05$-1.73$0.30$-0.49$0.21$-1.12
Shares out.73.2M72.8M72.5M73.9M64.1M60.0M

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

Key ratios

from filings · FY2019
Operating margin
1.3%
Net margin
5.4%
Return on equity
15.1%
Return on assets
3.9%
Return on capital (ROCE)
2.1%
Liabilities / assets
Debt / equity
Book value / share
$6.07
Revenue growth (YoY)
−0.0%
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 · FY2019
Accruals / assets
2.3%clean
Piotroski F-Score
7/8strong

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
67
/ 100
Profitability 100Growth 0Catalyst 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

1 severe1 warning4 good
  • Filed a late-filing notice (Form NT) — missed an SEC deadline
  • Revenue declined year-over-year
  • 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.

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.

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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