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American Assets Trust, Inc. — Earnings Quality Grade F

AAT · Real Estate

Major red flags

Revenue
$436M
2025
Net Income
$71M
2025
Gross Margin
61.1%
Free Cash Flow
$95M
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Screening Summary

14
Passed
0
Watch
3
Failed
-2.49
M-Score

Management Signals

No recent CEO, CFO, board, or accounting leadership signals found in SEC 8-K filings.
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Financial Trends

Revenue & Net Income ($B)

Margins (%)

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18-Point Screening

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Revenue Quality

A1DSO Change

DSO 6 days, change +1 days YoY

A2AR vs Revenue Growth

AR outpaced revenue for 2 consecutive years

A3Revenue vs CFFO

Revenue -4.7%, CFFO -19.3%. Cash follows revenue

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Expense Quality

B1Inventory vs COGS

No material inventory

B2CapEx vs Revenue

CapEx growth 2.9% vs revenue -4.7%. Normal

B3SG&A Ratio

SG&A/Gross Profit = 14.2%, excellent (<30%)

B4Gross Margin

Gross margin 61.1%, change -2.2pp. Stable

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Cash Flow Quality

C1CFFO vs Net Income

CFFO/NI = 2.34. Profits backed by cash

C2Free Cash Flow

FCF $0.1B, FCF/NI = 1.33

C3Accruals Ratio

Accruals ratio = -3.3%. Low accruals

C4Cash vs Debt

Cash $0.1B covers only 8% of debt $1.7B

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Balance Sheet Health

D1Goodwill + Intangibles

Goodwill+Intangibles $0.0B = 1% of equity. Manageable

D2Leverage

Debt/EBITDA = 6.1x (>4x). Interest coverage = 1.3x (<2x). Financial stress

D3Soft Asset Growth

Other assets 3.4% vs revenue -4.7%. Normal

D4Asset Impairment

No write-off data

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Acquisition Risk

E1Serial Acquirer FCF

FCF after acquisitions positive

E2Goodwill Surge

Goodwill+Intangibles change -25% YoY. Normal

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Manipulation Score

F1Beneish M-Score

M-Score = -2.49 (< -2.22). Unlikely manipulator

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Beneish M-Score

Manipulation Probability-2.49
-4.0 Clean-2.22 Grey-1.78 Danger0
1.126
DSRI
AR growing faster than revenue?
1.037
GMI
Gross margin declining?
1.132
AQI
Asset quality deteriorating?
0.953
SGI
Revenue growth rate
0.986
DEPI
Depreciation slowing?
1.12
SGAI
SG&A ratio changing?
-0.0328
TATA
Accruals level
0.953
LVGI
Leverage increasing?

Altman Z-Score — Not Applicable

American Assets Trust, Inc. is a financial company. Z-Score is designed for non-financial companies.

Generated from public financial data using forensic accounting frameworks. Not investment advice. Data: Yahoo Finance · 2026-04-25