No target price is issued: the company falls outside the profile this method looks for.
Financial comments7
Interest coverage below 4×.
Small base / growth not extrapolable (CAGR above 40 %).
The share count grows: net dilution.
Stagnation: 3-year earnings CAGR at or below zero. It is scored, not cut: the penalty is charged by the Impairment modifier, where it is continuous and capped.
ROIC below the required return: growth destroys value.
High stock-based compensation relative to FCF.
Impairment of earnings: 28 % of the window, weighted by recency → 3.4 points. It is the only place in the model where a bad year subtracts.
Calculation comments3
No consensus candidate passed the plausibility contract: nothing is rewritten and the path falls to the next rung of the cascade.
An anomalous year is out of the estimators; it still counts in the counters and hard cuts.
The estimated net income does not sit plausibly against the base (0.04 the base in the first year, 0.21 annualised at the end): the consensus is discarded rather than trimmed, and the cascade drops a rung.
Quality factors
Each factor scores 0–100 on its own scale; the score is their weighted average.
Score
Weight → points
Growth consistency31
Earnings · fit to the log-linear line · σ_resid = 0.23122 %1
Earnings · hit rate · 50 %16 %2
Earnings · volatility · σ = 0.39111 %0
Revenue · fit to the log-linear line · σ_resid = 0.03214 %94
Short effective sample (N_eff = 3.9 < 4): the fit subcomponent is shrunk towards neutral.
·20 → 6,19
Growth pace56
Realized · -9.0 %50 %12
Expected · 45.1 %50 %100
Small base / growth not extrapolable (CAGR above 40 %).
·20 → 11,21
No recent stagnation69
Realized slowdown · 1.00×50 %39
Expected slowdown · -4.99×50 %99
3-year earnings CAGR at or below zero (-23.7 %): the engine has slowed. It is scored on the acceleration scale, not cut — a binary cut turned a continuous fact into a cliff, and fired on 36 % of the universe.
Stagnation: 3-year earnings CAGR at or below zero. It is scored, not cut: the penalty is charged by the Impairment modifier, where it is continuous and capped.
·15 → 10,38
FCF quality57
FCF / net income conversion · 1.06×100 %57
Window chosen: last 5 years (the best of those evaluated).
Anomalous financial year(s) in earnings (2025): out of this component's estimators; they still count in the counters and hard cuts.
Stock-based compensation = 38 % of FCF: −25.0 points off the factor.
Positive FCF in 5 of the 5 years in the window.
An anomalous year is out of the estimators; it still counts in the counters and hard cuts.
High stock-based compensation relative to FCF.
·15 → 8,49
Debt2
Net debt / EBITDA · 7.21×100 %2
Interest coverage (EBIT / |interest|) = 0.0×.
Interest coverage below 4×.
·15 → 0,24
Return on invested capital (ROIC)8
Level (recency-weighted mean) · 5.5 %50 %2
Spread over the required return · −0.0 pp over the 10 % required30 %5
Trend · −2.8 pp over 4 years20 %27
Anomalous financial year(s) in earnings or invested capital (2025): out of this component's estimators; they still count in the counters and hard cuts.
Average ROIC (5.5 %) below the required return (10 %): growth destroys value.
An anomalous year is out of the estimators; it still counts in the counters and hard cuts.
ROIC below the required return: growth destroys value.
·15 → 1,20
Weighted base
·100 → 37,71
Modifiers and penalties
The factors build the score; the modifiers correct it, within +23 / −28. Same 0–100 bar, 100 is always good.
Score
Range
Points
Gross margin trend · −3.5 pp accumulated over 4 years15
±8
-5,6
Altman Z'' · Z'' = 3.63100
0/−15
0,0
Shareholder returns · dilutes 0.6 % a year0
Effective buyback (net share count) · 0.6 % of dilution0
Dividend yield (last DPS / price today) · 1.0 % · does not count: the active branch is dilution—
