Is IRM a high-quality business?

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

What is Iron Mountain Incorporated's AlphaQuality grade?

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

IRM - Iron Mountain Incorporated

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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.

⚠ Negative tangible book value combined with negative free cash flow — balance sheet is impaired and operating cash generation cannot rebuild it.

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%

D- 29.6

Scored using FFO margin — REIT-archetype substitution.

FFO Margin 16.9% 30/100

Capital Efficiency

Weight: 15%

A- 83.4

5yr Avg ROE 75.7% 100/100
5yr Share-Count CAGR 0.6% 52/100

Growth Quality

Weight: 15%

B 71.7

Scored using FFO/share — REIT-archetype substitution.

5yr FFO/Share CAGR 3.0% 60/100
Positive-FFO Years (5) 5/5 100/100

Cash Generation

Weight: 15%

F 0.0

Scored using AFFO dividend coverage — REIT substitution.

AFFO Dividend Coverage -1.01x 0/100
5yr FCF/NI -2.19x 0/100

Balance Sheet

Weight: 25%

F 6.0

Scored using Debt/Assets — REIT-archetype substitution.

Debt / Assets 90.2% 0/100
Interest Coverage (EBIT/Int) 1.28x 17/100

Stability

Weight: 10%

C- 51.0

EPS Volatility (σ/μ) 0.52 28/100
Negative-Revenue Years (5) 0/5 100/100
Piotroski F-Score 4 44/100

3 of 5 gurus held; 1 added; 1 trimmed; 2 full exits.

Holders: 3 -2
Avg Δ position: -12.9%
New buys: 0
Full exits: 2

Soros sold -100%
Dalio sold -100%
Wood decreased -67%

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%) — 5yr FFO/Share CAGR, 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.