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QUALITY DISTRIBUTION INC

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Signs4 good1 warning3 severedetails ↓

Financials

SEC XBRL · annual
 FY14FY13FY12FY11FY10FY09
Revenue$234.5M$229.4M$842.1M$746.0M$686.6M$613.6M
Operating income$12.1M$15.4M$49.1M$57.7M$36.7M−$115.2M
Net income$3.1M$9.1M$50.1M$23.4M−$7.4M−$180.5M
Total assets$427.8M$427.2M$513.6M$302.4M$271.3M
Total liabilities$459.5M$483.5M$532.0M$408.6M$415.9M
Equity−$31.7M−$56.3M−$18.4M−$106.2M−$146.4M−$140.7M
EPS (diluted)$0.11$0.34$1.84$0.96$-0.36$-9.28
Shares out.27.4M27.0M24.4M23.9M21.5M19.4M

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

Key ratios

from filings · FY2014
Operating margin
5.2%
Net margin
1.3%
Return on equity
−9.7%
Return on assets
0.7%
Return on capital (ROCE)
3.4%
Liabilities / assets
107.4%
Debt / equity
Book value / share
$-1.16
Revenue growth (YoY)
2.2%
Net income growth (YoY)
−66.4%

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 · FY2014
Altman Z″ (distress)
-0.02distress
Accruals / assets
7.3%clean
Piotroski F-Score
6/9mixed

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
58
/ 100
Profitability 80Growth 50Catalyst 33Earnings quality 100Financial strength 25

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

3 severe1 warning4 good
  • Negative shareholder equity
  • Altman Z″ in the distress zone
  • Filed a late-filing notice (Form NT) — missed an SEC deadline
  • High leverage (liabilities > 70% of assets)
  • Operating margin is positive
  • Revenue is growing year-over-year
  • 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 36,799 shares · last 2
InsiderDateTypeSharesPrice
Marchese Richard BDirectorAug 18, 2015D7,383$16.00
Ernst Melissa MOfficer — Sr. VP - HR and Driver Serv.Aug 18, 2015D29,416$16.00

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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