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VITRAN CORP INC

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Signs3 good2 warningdetails ↓

Financials

SEC XBRL · annual
 FY13FY12FY11FY10FY09
Revenue$47.0M$45.7M$192.3M$581.6M$595.3M
Operating income$365,000−$88,000$5.3M−$52,000−$1.2M
Net income$67.7M−$5.8M−$14.0M−$40.2M−$4.0M
Total assets$93.6M$238.5M$242.3M$245.3M
Total liabilities
Equity$18.4M$49.7M$85.0M$98.8M$135.8M
EPS (diluted)$-0.86$-2.47$-0.28
Shares out.16.4M16.3M16.3M16.3M14.4M

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

Key ratios

from filings · FY2013
Operating margin
0.8%
Net margin
143.9%
Return on equity
367.9%
Return on assets
72.3%
Return on capital (ROCE)
0.5%
Liabilities / assets
Debt / equity
Book value / share
$1.12
Revenue growth (YoY)
3.0%
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 · FY2013
Accruals / assets
129.7%high accruals
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
67
/ 100
Profitability 100Growth 100Catalyst 33Earnings quality 0Financial strength 100

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. What these scores mean →

Signs

2 warning3 good
  • Negative operating cash flow
  • High accruals — earnings-quality risk
  • Operating margin is positive
  • Strong return on equity (>15%)
  • Revenue is growing year-over-year

Derived from the company's own SEC figures (fundamentals, forensic scores, filing discipline) — descriptive factors, not advice or a forecast.

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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