Is FLWS a high-quality business?

AlphaMadera's AlphaQuality grade scores 1-800-FLOWERS.COM, Inc. on six pillars — profitability, capital efficiency, balance-sheet strength, growth durability, cash generation, and shareholder yield. The composite letter grade reflects how FLWS compares to a Buffett-style quality bar.

What is 1-800-FLOWERS.COM, Inc.'s AlphaQuality grade?

AlphaQuality assigns a letter grade (A through F) to FLWS 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 FLWS 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.

FLWS - 1-800-FLOWERS.COM, Inc.

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AlphaQuality

Quantitative six-pillar business-quality grade

Stable Earnings Power

AlphaQuality — archetype-weighted quantitative grade

F 25.2 / 100 pillar composite

Composite Grade

Composite of six pillars weighted for stable earnings power businesses. Purely quantitative — the six pillars score only reported financials, no analyst input.

⚠ 3 of the last 5 fiscal years showed negative net income — AlphaQuality will not grade above F for persistent unprofitability in a stable earnings power business.

Grade overrides the 25.2 pillar composite because hard gates always win. Use the pillar breakdown below to see where the underlying numbers sit.

Profitability

Weight: 20%

F 5.2

5yr Avg ROIC -4.7% 1/100
Operating Margin Trend -1.20 pp/yr 16/100

Capital Efficiency

Weight: 15%

F 26.9

5yr Avg ROE -14.7% 0/100
5yr Share-Count CAGR -0.8% 77/100

Growth Quality

Weight: 15%

D 34.4

5yr Revenue CAGR 2.5% 41/100
Revenue-Growth Years (5) 1/5 20/100

Cash Generation

Weight: 15%

C+ 59.8

5yr FCF Margin 1.0% 30/100
5yr FCF/NI Conversion 0.96x 96/100

Balance Sheet

Weight: 20%

F 8.3

Net Debt / EBITDA 10.00x 0/100
Interest Coverage (EBIT/Int) -12.82x 0/100
Altman Z-Score 1.72 33/100

Stability

Weight: 15%

D- 28.4

EPS Volatility (σ/μ) 0.64 19/100
Negative-Revenue Years (5) 3/5 40/100
Piotroski F-Score 3 33/100

1 of 1 gurus held; 1 trimmed.

Holders: 1
Avg Δ position: -15.1%
New buys: 0
Full exits: 0

Cooperman decreased -15%

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.