75/100 B+ · Moderate risk
No major risk flags in public sources TraceComp due-diligence verdict — sanctions, screening, insolvency, control & financial signals combined.

✅ No sanctions, screening, insolvency or control red flags found in the public sources we cover. (Absence of a flag is not a guarantee — see methodology.)

STAPLES INC

Active operating 📍 framingham, ma 5940

operating · RC 0000791519

B+

Overview

STAPLES INC is a operating registered in FRAMINGHAM, MA, United States. The company operates in the 5940 sector. With reported revenue of 18.2B USD in 2016. Its TraceComp score of 75 (B+) indicates solid fundamentals and low apparent risk.

Company Information

Registration Number
0000791519
Legal Form
operating
Address
framingham, ma

Financial Profile

Latest filed accounts: FY 2016 · most recent available in public filings

Revenue (2016) 18,247,000,000 USD
Net Income -1,497,000,000 USD
Total Assets 8,271,000,000 USD
Altman Z 2.36 grey

Multi-year financials & ratios

1 year of filed accounts on file — full balance sheets, current ratio, debt-to-equity, net margin and the Altman-Z distress trend.

What’s in the full report

  • Financial statements — revenue, assets, equity & margins for every year on file (multi-year trend where available)
  • Key ratios & credit score — liquidity, leverage & profitability ratios plus our 0–100 score with a factor-by-factor breakdown
  • Insolvency & legal events — collective proceedings and adverse filings (where on record)
  • Charges & secured lending — registered charges and the creditors entitled (where filed)
  • Sanctions & screening — company-level watchlist & adverse signals
  • Sector benchmark & peers — how the company compares to its sector and nearest peers
  • Innovation & EU funding — patents, research output & EU research funding received (where applicable)
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Officers & Management

No officers on record.

Research Output

Active research organization. 125 publications · 2,285 citations · h-index 27 in the global scholarly record (OpenAlex — 82.9M papers). Top fields by publication volume: Physics and Astronomy (46%) · Agricultural and Biological Sciences (38%) · Economics, Econometrics and Finance (10%).

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Source: OpenAlex (CC0). Objective publication & citation counts.

Patent Portfolio

Active patent holder. 82 patents · 72 active · 82 granted in the USPTO/EPO record.

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Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Objective bibliographic counts.

Risk Signals

No adverse legal events have been recorded for this company.

  • Net loss reported in FY 2016

Data Sources & Freshness

Data sourced from: bulk register.