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TALBOTS INC

Consumer Discretionary · Retail-Women's Clothing Stores · DE · SEC filings ↗ · Compare ⊕

Signs1 good4 warningdetails ↓

Financials

SEC XBRL · annual
 FY12FY11FY10
Revenue$1.14B$1.21B$1.24B
Operating income−$102.6M$31.4M−$8.7M
Net income−$111.9M$10.8M−$29.4M
Total assets$644.2M$668.5M
Total liabilities
Equity$16.0M$183.6M−$185.6M
EPS (diluted)$-1.62$0.16$-0.55
Shares out.70.4M70.3M53.8M

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

Key ratios

from filings · FY2012
Operating margin
−9.0%
Net margin
−9.8%
Return on equity
−700.4%
Return on assets
−17.4%
Return on capital (ROCE)
−37.4%
Liabilities / assets
Debt / equity
Book value / share
$0.23
Revenue growth (YoY)
−5.9%
Net income growth (YoY)
−1134.6%

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
7.2%clean
Piotroski F-Score
1/8weak

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
30
/ 100
Profitability 0Growth 0Catalyst 33Earnings quality 67Financial 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

4 warning1 good
  • Operating losses (negative operating margin)
  • Reported a net loss
  • Revenue declined year-over-year
  • Negative 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
0 acquisitions12 disposalsnet 1.5M shares · last 12
InsiderDateTypeSharesPrice
Sullivan Trudy FOfficer — President &amp; CEOAug 3, 2012U507,400$2.75
Scarpa MichaelOfficer — COO, CFO and TreasurerAug 3, 0012U289,705$2.75
Casamento Benedetta IOfficer — EVP, FinanceAug 3, 2012D85,226$2.75
Fitzgerald DeirdreOfficer — EVP, Gen Merchandise ManagerAug 3, 2012U16,699$2.75
Gilbert Lesli ROfficer — SVP, StoresAug 3, 2012U38,559$2.75
Oconnell Richard T JrOfficer — EVP, Real Estate &amp; Legal &amp; SecAug 3, 2012U317,898$2.75
Poole Gregory IOfficer — EVP Chief Supply Chain OfficerAug 3, 2012U85,310$2.75
Wagner LoriOfficer — EVP, Chief Marketing OfficerAug 3, 2012U80,117$2.75
Pfeiffer Gary MDirectorAug 3, 2012J4,000$0.00
Bowen Marjorie L.DirectorAug 3, 2012D21,566$2.75
Gleeson John WDirectorAug 3, 2012D41,361$2.75
Madsen Andrew HDirectorAug 3, 2012U7,566$2.75

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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