D

Bowhead Specialty Holdings Inc. — Earnings Quality Grade D

BOW · Financial Services

Significant concerns

Revenue
$552M
2025
Net Income
$54M
2025
Gross Margin
Free Cash Flow
$326M
01

Screening Summary

9
Passed
1
Watch
2
Failed
M-Score

Management Signals

No recent CEO, CFO, board, or accounting leadership signals found in SEC 8-K filings.
02

Financial Trends

Revenue & Net Income ($B)

Margins (%)

03

18-Point Screening

01

Revenue Quality

A1DSO Change

DSO surged by 47 days (273 → 320)

Small-cap context: DSO swings on a small revenue base are more often quarterly customer-mix effects than red flags.

A2AR vs Revenue Growth

AR outpaced revenue for 2 consecutive years

A3Revenue vs CFFO

Revenue 29.6%, CFFO 12.7%. Cash follows revenue

02

Expense Quality

B1Inventory vs COGS

No material inventory

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B2CapEx vs Revenue

CapEx growth 79.0% is >2x revenue growth 29.6%

B3SG&A Ratio

Insufficient data

B4Gross Margin

Insufficient data

03

Cash Flow Quality

C1CFFO vs Net Income

CFFO/NI = 6.16. Profits backed by cash

C2Free Cash Flow

FCF $0.3B, FCF/NI = 6.06

C3Accruals Ratio

Accruals ratio = -11.7%. Low accruals

C4Cash vs Debt

Cash $1.0B covers debt $0.1B

04

Balance Sheet Health

D1Goodwill + Intangibles

No goodwill. Clean balance sheet

D2Leverage

Insufficient data

D3Soft Asset Growth

Insufficient data

D4Asset Impairment

No write-off data

05

Acquisition Risk

E1Serial Acquirer FCF

FCF after acquisitions positive

E2Goodwill Surge

No goodwill

06

Manipulation Score

F1Beneish M-Score

Insufficient data

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Altman Z-Score — Not Applicable

Bowhead Specialty Holdings 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