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STERLING BANCSHARES INC

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Signs2 good1 warningdetails ↓

Financials

SEC XBRL · annual
 FY10FY09
Revenue
Operating income
Net income$704,000−$13.0M
Total assets$5.19B$4.94B
Total liabilities$4.57B$4.40B
Equity$621.9M$540.5M
EPS (diluted)$0.01$-0.28
Shares out.102.0M81.9M

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

Key ratios

from filings · FY2010
Operating margin
Net margin
Return on equity
0.1%
Return on assets
0.0%
Return on capital (ROCE)
Liabilities / assets
88.0%
Debt / equity
7.35×
Book value / share
$6.10
Revenue growth (YoY)
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 · FY2010
Accruals / assets
1.4%clean
Piotroski F-Score
5/6mixed

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
79
/ 100
Profitability 100Growth n/aCatalyst 67Earnings quality 100Financial 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.

Signs

1 warning2 good
  • High leverage (liabilities > 70% of assets)
  • 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
9 acquisitions3 disposals1 open-market buy(s)net +70,329 shares · last 12
InsiderDateTypeSharesPrice
Wasson Zachariah LordOfficer — Chief Financial OfficerJul 28, 2011Grant7,500$7.73
Smith Robert StephenOfficer — EVP &amp; Chief Credit OfficerJul 28, 2011Grant10,000$7.73
Jaggers Travis LOfficer — E.V.P. &amp; Chief Lending OfficerJul 28, 2011Grant7,500$7.73
Goolsby James W JrOfficer — E.V.P. &amp; General CounselJul 28, 2011Grant7,500$7.73
Dalton Wanda SOfficer — E.V.P. &amp; Chief H.R. OfficerJul 28, 2011Grant7,500$7.73
Bridgwater J DowneyOfficer — Chairman, President and CEOJul 28, 2011Grant20,000$7.73
Wasson Zachariah LordOfficer — Chief Financial OfficerJun 29, 2011Sell1,250$8.05
E Riojas RaimundoDirectorJun 8, 2011Buy6,000$9.50
Wasson Zachariah LordOfficer — Chief Financial OfficerMay 31, 2011Grant2,000$8.44
Harris Bernard A JrDirectorMay 25, 2011Sell4,074$8.30
Dalton Wanda SOfficer — E.V.P. &amp; Chief H.R. OfficerMar 25, 2011Option exercise11,251$7.72
Bridgwater J DowneyOfficer — Chairman, President and CEOMar 18, 2011Sell3,598$8.83

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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