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AlphaQuality

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 — 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 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%
F 3.4
  • 5yr Avg ROIC -2.6% 5/100
  • Operating Margin Trend -3.86 pp/yr 0/100
Contributes 0.7 pts toward composite.

Capital Efficiency

Weight: 15%
F 26.8
  • 5yr Avg ROE -4.2% 2/100
  • 5yr Share-Count CAGR -0.6% 74/100
Contributes 4.0 pts toward composite.

Growth Quality

Weight: 15%
C+ 58.5
  • 5yr Revenue CAGR 0.7% 26/100
  • 5yr EPS CAGR 38.0% 100/100
  • Revenue-Growth Years (5) 3/5 60/100
Contributes 8.8 pts toward composite.

Cash Generation

Weight: 15%
A- 80.3
  • 5yr FCF Margin 22.9% 93/100
  • 5yr FCF/NI Conversion 4.47x 65/100
Contributes 12.1 pts toward composite.

Balance Sheet

Weight: 20%
A+ 95.3
  • Net Debt / EBITDA -3.56x 100/100
  • Interest Coverage (EBIT/Int) 70.51x 100/100
  • Altman Z-Score 3.08 81/100
Contributes 19.1 pts toward composite.

Stability

Weight: 15%
C- 49.2
  • EPS Volatility (σ/μ) 0.57 24/100
  • Negative-Revenue Years (5) 2/5 60/100
  • Piotroski F-Score 7 78/100
Contributes 7.4 pts toward composite.

Guru Flow

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

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

Holders
3 -1
Avg Δ position
-59.2%
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 (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), 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.