Ares Commercial Real Estate Cor — Earnings Quality Grade F
ACRE · Real Estate
Major red flags
Screening Summary
Management Signals
Financial Trends
Revenue & Net Income ($B)
Margins (%)
18-Point Screening
Revenue Quality
DSO surged by 49 days (-48 → 1)
Small-cap context: DSO swings on a small revenue base are more often quarterly customer-mix effects than red flags.
AR growth -96.2% vs revenue growth 250.6%
Revenue grew 250.6% but CFFO declined -39.9%
Small-cap context: Small-cap revenue/CFFO ratio is sensitive to growth-stage working-capital draws.
Expense Quality
No material inventory
CapEx growth 355.6% vs revenue 250.6%. Normal
Insufficient data
Insufficient data
Cash Flow Quality
CFFO < Net Income for 3 consecutive years
Small-cap context: Small-cap CFFO/NI often diverges from working-capital swings, not necessarily manipulation.
FCF $0.0B, FCF/NI = -21.87
Accruals ratio = -1.4%. Low accruals
Cash $0.0B covers only 3% of debt $1.0B
Balance Sheet Health
No goodwill. Clean balance sheet
Insufficient data
Insufficient data
No write-off data
Acquisition Risk
FCF after acquisitions positive
No goodwill
Manipulation Score
Insufficient data
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Altman Z-Score — Not Applicable
Ares Commercial Real Estate Cor 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