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AMERISTAR CASINOS INC

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Signs3 good1 warning2 severedetails ↓

Financials

SEC XBRL · annual
 FY12FY11FY10FY09
Revenue$1.47B$1.49B$1.49B$1.49B
Operating income$69.3M$62.6M$140.1M$103.5M
Net income$41.4M$21.8M$8.6M−$4.7M
Total assets$2.07B$2.01B$2.06B
Total liabilities
Equity−$22.3M−$90.6M$351.0M$336.0M
EPS (diluted)$1.21$0.37$0.15$-0.08
Shares out.32.9M32.8M58.3M57.5M

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
4.7%
Net margin
2.8%
Return on equity
−185.8%
Return on assets
2.0%
Return on capital (ROCE)
3.7%
Liabilities / assets
Debt / equity
Book value / share
$-0.68
Revenue growth (YoY)
−1.3%
Net income growth (YoY)
89.4%

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
Accruals / assets
8.8%clean
Piotroski F-Score
5/8mixed

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
53
/ 100
Profitability 80Growth 50Catalyst 33Earnings quality 100Financial strength 0

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 severe1 warning3 good
  • Negative shareholder equity
  • Filed a late-filing notice (Form NT) — missed an SEC deadline
  • Revenue declined year-over-year
  • Operating margin is positive
  • 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.

Insider transactions

SEC Form 4 · most recent
0 acquisitions2 disposalsnet 127,417 shares · last 2
InsiderDateTypeSharesPrice
Hodges LarryOfficer — President, COOAug 13, 2013D103,797$26.50
Brooks CarlDirectorAug 13, 2013D23,620$26.50

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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