Is ELME a high-quality business?

AlphaMadera's AlphaQuality grade scores Elme Communities on six pillars — profitability, capital efficiency, balance-sheet strength, growth durability, cash generation, and shareholder yield. The composite letter grade reflects how ELME compares to a Buffett-style quality bar.

What is Elme Communities's AlphaQuality grade?

AlphaQuality assigns a letter grade (A through F) to ELME based on a six-pillar quantitative model. The live page shows the composite grade plus each pillar's individual score with the underlying metrics.

What makes ELME a quality stock?

AlphaQuality looks at return on capital, free-cash-flow margins, debt-to-equity, revenue stability, dividend and buyback policy, and operating-margin trend. Stocks scoring well across all six pillars earn higher grades — the methodology favors compounders over cyclicals.

ELME - Elme Communities

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AlphaQuality

Quantitative six-pillar business-quality grade

Real Estate Investment Trust

AlphaQuality — archetype-weighted quantitative grade

F 30.0 / 100 pillar composite

Composite Grade

Composite of six pillars weighted for real estate investment trust businesses. Purely quantitative — the six pillars score only reported financials, no analyst input.

⚠ 5 of the last 5 fiscal years showed negative net income — AlphaQuality will not grade above F for persistent unprofitability in a real estate investment trust 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: 20%

F 0.0

Scored using FFO margin — REIT-archetype substitution.

FFO Margin 0.0% 0/100

Capital Efficiency

Weight: 15%

F 14.2

5yr Avg ROE -14.9% 0/100
5yr Share-Count CAGR 1.4% 41/100

Growth Quality

Weight: 15%

A- 80.0

Scored using FFO/share — REIT-archetype substitution.

Positive-FFO Years (5) 4/5 80/100

Cash Generation

Weight: 15%

D- 31.6

Scored using AFFO dividend coverage — REIT substitution.

AFFO Dividend Coverage 0.98x 45/100
5yr FCF/NI 0.00x 0/100

Balance Sheet

Weight: 25%

C+ 59.7

Scored using Debt/Assets — REIT-archetype substitution.

Debt / Assets 24.6% 92/100
Interest Coverage (EBIT/Int) -3.82x 0/100

Stability

Weight: 10%

D 37.5

EPS Volatility (σ/μ) 0.77 9/100
Negative-Revenue Years (5) 1/5 80/100
Piotroski F-Score 4 44/100

2 of 2 gurus held; 1 trimmed; 1 full exit.

Holders: 2
Avg Δ position: -0.6%
New buys: 0
Full exits: 1

Cooperman sold -100%
Wood decreased -1%

How this is calculated

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

Profitability (20%) — FFO Margin
Capital Efficiency (15%) — 5yr Avg ROE, 5yr Share-Count CAGR
Growth Quality (15%) — Positive-FFO Years (5)
Cash Generation (15%) — AFFO Dividend Coverage, 5yr FCF/NI
Balance Sheet (25%) — Debt / Assets, Interest Coverage (EBIT/Int)
Stability (10%) — 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.