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HOLD 7
SELL 1
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AlphaQuality

AlphaQuality

Quantitative six-pillar business-quality grade

High-Growth Software

AlphaQuality — archetype-weighted quantitative grade

F 30.0 / 100 pillar composite

Composite Grade

Composite of six pillars weighted for high-growth software businesses. Purely quantitative — the six pillars score only reported financials, no analyst input.

⚠ 2 of the last 5 fiscal years showed negative net income — AlphaQuality will not grade above F for persistent unprofitability in a high-growth software business.

Grade overrides the 30.0 pillar composite because hard gates always win. Use the pillar breakdown below to see where the underlying numbers sit.

Profitability

Weight: 15%
D 34.7
  • 5yr Avg ROIC 1.5% 17/100
  • Operating Margin Trend +0.67 pp/yr 75/100
Contributes 5.2 pts toward composite.

Capital Efficiency

Weight: 15%
F 14.6
  • 5yr Avg ROE 1.3% 17/100
  • 5yr Share-Count CAGR 3.9% 11/100
Contributes 2.2 pts toward composite.

Growth Quality

Weight: 35%
A+ 100.0
  • 5yr Revenue CAGR 41.5% 100/100
  • Revenue-Growth Years (5) 5/5 100/100
Contributes 35.0 pts toward composite.

Cash Generation

Weight: 20%
A- 82.7
  • 5yr FCF Margin 27.1% 97/100
  • 5yr FCF/NI Conversion 8.95x 65/100
Contributes 16.5 pts toward composite.

Balance Sheet

Weight: 10%
A+ 96.6
  • Net Debt / EBITDA -15.17x 100/100
  • Interest Coverage (EBIT/Int) 12.49x 89/100
  • Altman Z-Score 19.34 100/100
Contributes 9.7 pts toward composite.

Stability

Weight: 5%
C 52.1
  • EPS Volatility (σ/μ) 0.59 23/100
  • Negative-Revenue Years (5) 0/5 100/100
  • Piotroski F-Score 5 56/100
Contributes 2.6 pts toward composite.

Guru Flow

Curated superinvestor sentiment — not part of the AlphaQuality grade.
Holding

4 of 4 gurus held; 3 added; 1 trimmed; 1 full exit.

Holders
4
Avg Δ position
-6.6%
New buys
0
Full exits
1
As of Q2 2026
How this is calculated

AlphaQuality grades six pillars from 0-100 and weights each by archetype:

  • Profitability (15%) — 5yr Avg ROIC, Operating Margin Trend
  • Capital Efficiency (15%) — 5yr Avg ROE, 5yr Share-Count CAGR
  • Growth Quality (35%) — 5yr Revenue CAGR, Revenue-Growth Years (5)
  • Cash Generation (20%) — 5yr FCF Margin, 5yr FCF/NI Conversion
  • Balance Sheet (10%) — Net Debt / EBITDA, Interest Coverage (EBIT/Int), Altman Z-Score
  • Stability (5%) — 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.