Is JVA a high-quality business?

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

What is Coffee Holding Co., Inc.'s AlphaQuality grade?

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

JVA - Coffee Holding Co., Inc.

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AlphaQuality

Quantitative six-pillar business-quality grade

Stable Earnings Power

AlphaQuality — archetype-weighted quantitative grade

F 30.0 / 100 pillar composite

Composite Grade

Composite of six pillars weighted for stable earnings power businesses. Purely quantitative — no stock price or analyst input.

⚠ 2 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 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 34.5

5yr Avg ROIC 0.3% 12/100
Operating Margin Trend +1.18 pp/yr 88/100

Capital Efficiency

Weight: 15%

D- 29.9

5yr Avg ROE 0.2% 11/100
5yr Share-Count CAGR 0.0% 65/100

Growth Quality

Weight: 15%

A- 82.7

5yr Revenue CAGR 10.8% 82/100
5yr EPS CAGR 13.6% 85/100
Revenue-Growth Years (5) 4/5 80/100

Cash Generation

Weight: 15%

F 20.7

5yr FCF Margin -1.0% 20/100
5yr FCF/NI Conversion 0.21x 21/100

Balance Sheet

Weight: 20%

B+ 79.8

Net Debt / EBITDA 2.11x 68/100
Interest Coverage (EBIT/Int) 8.96x 81/100
Altman Z-Score 5.44 100/100

Stability

Weight: 15%

C- 48.9

EPS Volatility (σ/μ) 0.63 20/100
Piotroski F-Score 6 67/100
Negative-Revenue Years (5) 1/5 80/100

Not enough curated-guru data to call a flow.

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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, 5yr EPS 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), Piotroski F-Score, Negative-Revenue Years (5)

We deliberately ignore stock price, analyst targets, and consensus ratings so the grade is suitable for backtesting forward returns. A minimum of 5 fiscal years of audited statements is required; distressed and highly leveraged infrastructure businesses are declared ungradable rather than forced into a numeric score.