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Apogee Enterprises, Inc. — Earnings Quality Grade F

APOG · Industrials

Major red flags

Revenue
$1.4B
2025
Net Income
$85M
2025
Gross Margin
26.4%
Free Cash Flow
$90M
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Screening Summary

13
Passed
2
Watch
2
Failed
-2.66
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 32 days, change +2 days YoY

A2AR vs Revenue Growth

AR growth 2.1% vs revenue growth -3.9%

A3Revenue vs CFFO

Revenue -3.9%, CFFO -38.7%. Cash follows revenue

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Expense Quality

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B1Inventory vs COGS

Inventory growth 33.3% exceeds COGS -4.6%

B2CapEx vs Revenue

CapEx growth -17.6% vs revenue -3.9%. Normal

B3SG&A Ratio

SG&A/Gross Profit = 67.2%. Normal

B4Gross Margin

Gross margin 26.4%, change +0.5pp. Stable

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Cash Flow Quality

C1CFFO vs Net Income

CFFO/NI = 1.47. Profits backed by cash

C2Free Cash Flow

FCF $0.1B, FCF/NI = 1.05

C3Accruals Ratio

Accruals ratio = -3.4%. Low accruals

C4Cash vs Debt

Cash $0.0B covers only 12% of debt $0.4B

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Balance Sheet Health

D1Goodwill + Intangibles

Goodwill+Intangibles $0.4B = 75% of equity. Over 50%

D2Leverage

Debt/EBITDA = 2.2x. Healthy

D3Soft Asset Growth

Other assets -15.7% vs revenue -3.9%. Normal

D4Asset Impairment

No write-off data

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Acquisition Risk

E1Serial Acquirer FCF

FCF after acquisitions positive

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E2Goodwill Surge

Goodwill+Intangibles surged 86% YoY

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Manipulation Score

F1Beneish M-Score

M-Score = -2.66 (< -2.22). Unlikely manipulator

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Beneish M-Score

Manipulation Probability-2.66
-4.0 Clean-2.22 Grey-1.78 Danger0
1.063
DSRI
AR growing faster than revenue?
0.98
GMI
Gross margin declining?
1.257
AQI
Asset quality deteriorating?
0.961
SGI
Revenue growth rate
1.073
DEPI
Depreciation slowing?
1.079
SGAI
SG&A ratio changing?
-0.0341
TATA
Accruals level
1.399
LVGI
Leverage increasing?
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Altman Z-Score

3.3
Safe Zone
0 Distress1.102.605.0+ Safe
0.1333
Liquidity
0.3063
Cumulative profit
0.101
Operating efficiency
0.7098
Leverage

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