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MERGE HEALTHCARE INC

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Signs3 good2 warning2 severedetails ↓

Financials

SEC XBRL · annual
 FY14FY13FY12FY11FY10FY09
Revenue$50.9M$63.6M$248.9M$52.7M$20.0M$66.8M
Operating income$23.6M$9.8M$6.6M$29.2M−$8.5M$9.0M
Net income$325,000−$6.5M−$1.8M−$1.6M−$3.1M$285,000
Total assets$374.3M$382.1M$436.9M$450.4M$396.6M
Total liabilities$323.7M$336.8M$359.4M$357.9M$291.8M
Equity$50.1M$44.8M$77.0M$92.0M$104.8M$68.1M
EPS (diluted)$0.00$-0.42$-0.31$-0.10$-0.38$0.00
Shares out.97.1M93.5M190.9M83.3M62.7M

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
46.4%
Net margin
0.6%
Return on equity
0.6%
Return on assets
0.1%
Return on capital (ROCE)
8.7%
Liabilities / assets
86.5%
Debt / equity
6.46×
Book value / share
$0.52
Revenue growth (YoY)
−20.0%
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 · FY2014
Altman Z″ (distress)
-3.91distress
Accruals / assets
11.3%clean
Piotroski F-Score
7/9strong

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
57
/ 100
Profitability 100Growth 0Catalyst 33Earnings 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

2 severe2 warning3 good
  • Altman Z″ in the distress zone
  • Filed a late-filing notice (Form NT) — missed an SEC deadline
  • Revenue declined year-over-year
  • High leverage (liabilities > 70% of assets)
  • 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
1 acquisitions11 disposalsnet +4.9M shares · last 12
InsiderDateTypeSharesPrice
Guggenheim Capital Llc10% ownerOct 13, 2015Conversion9.0M
Cole Michael PDirectorOct 13, 2015D4,181$7.13
Dearborn Justin COfficer — Chief Executive OfficerOct 13, 2015D327,333$7.13
Devers William J JrDirectorOct 13, 2015D48,246$7.13
Hammond Kurt R.Officer — President, Sales &amp; MarketingOct 13, 2015D50,230$7.13
Koenig Nancy JOfficer — Chief Operating OfficerOct 13, 2015D186,162$7.13
Maloney Matthew M.DirectorOct 13, 2015D43,860$7.13
Oreskovich Steven MOfficer — CFO &amp; TreasurerOct 13, 2015D175,643$7.13
Reck Richard ADirectorOct 13, 2015D48,863$7.13
Stearns Neele EDirectorOct 13, 2015D53,811$7.13
Wells AntoniaOfficer — President, International &amp; R&amp;DOct 13, 2015D113,323$7.13
Merrick Venture Management Holdings, LlcDirectorOct 6, 2015Gift3.0M$0.00

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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