Profitability
Weight: 20%
F
0.0
- 5yr Avg ROIC -23.2% 0/100
- Operating Margin Trend -2.12 pp/yr 0/100
CRNC - Cerence Inc.
Price:
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CONSENSUS:
Hold
DETAILS
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PRICE TARGET:
$23.38
DETAILS
HIGH:
$76.00
LOW:
$3.30
MEDIAN:
$11.50
CONSENSUS:
$23.38
UPSIDE:
190.07%
AlphaQuality
Quantitative six-pillar business-quality grade
Stable Earnings Power
AlphaQuality — archetype-weighted quantitative grade
F
18.9 / 100 pillar composite
Capital Efficiency
Weight: 15%
F
5.4
- 5yr Avg ROE -95.3% 0/100
- 5yr Share-Count CAGR 3.5% 15/100
Growth Quality
Weight: 15%
F
18.8
- 5yr Revenue CAGR -5.3% 9/100
- Revenue-Growth Years (5) 2/5 40/100
Cash Generation
Weight: 15%
B
73.3
- 5yr FCF Margin 6.6% 57/100
- 5yr FCF/NI Conversion 1.36x 94/100
Balance Sheet
Weight: 20%
F
0.5
- Net Debt / EBITDA 11.95x 0/100
- Interest Coverage (EBIT/Int) 0.14x 2/100
- Altman Z-Score -1.06 0/100
Stability
Weight: 15%
D-
28.2
- EPS Volatility (σ/μ) 0.74 11/100
- Negative-Revenue Years (5) 3/5 40/100
- Piotroski F-Score 4 44/100
Guru Flow
Curated superinvestor sentiment — not part of the AlphaQuality grade.2 of 2 gurus held; 2 trimmed.
- Holders
- 2
- Avg Δ position
- -48.4%
- New buys
- 0
- Full exits
- 0
How this is calculated
AlphaQuality grades six pillars from 0-100 and weights each by archetype:
- Profitability (20%) — 5yr Avg ROIC, Operating Margin Trend
- Capital Efficiency (15%) — 5yr Avg ROE, 5yr Share-Count CAGR
- Growth Quality (15%) — 5yr Revenue CAGR, Revenue-Growth Years (5)
- Cash Generation (15%) — 5yr FCF Margin, 5yr FCF/NI Conversion
- Balance Sheet (20%) — Net Debt / EBITDA, Interest Coverage (EBIT/Int), Altman Z-Score
- Stability (15%) — EPS Volatility (σ/μ), Negative-Revenue Years (5), Piotroski F-Score
The six pillars read only reported financial-statement fields — no analyst targets or consensus ratings. The archetype that picks which pillar formulas apply is not fully price-free, though: it can route a company to the distressed/ungradable archetype based on price vs. its 52-week high, and beta affects one classification check. A minimum of 5 fiscal years of audited statements is required. Insurers and banks are graded on their own methodology — insurers on loss ratio, its trend and stability, and premiums-to-surplus; banks on the efficiency ratio, its trend and stability, and equity-to-assets — rather than on industrial margin/ROIC signals. Distressed, highly leveraged infrastructure, asset-manager, and other financial businesses are declared ungradable rather than forced into a numeric score.