C

Callaway Golf Company — Earnings Quality Grade C

CALY · Consumer Cyclical

Some red flags

Revenue
$2.1B
2025
Net Income
-$409M
2025
Gross Margin
42.1%
Free Cash Flow
$301M
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Screening Summary

12
Passed
5
Watch
0
Failed
-3.82
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 22 days, change -2 days YoY

A2AR vs Revenue Growth

AR growth -10.2% vs revenue growth -0.8%

A3Revenue vs CFFO

Revenue -0.8%, CFFO -12.6%. Cash follows revenue

02

Expense Quality

B1Inventory vs COGS

Inventory -0.5% vs COGS 0.2%. Normal

B2CapEx vs Revenue

CapEx growth -35.6% vs revenue -0.8%. Normal

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B3SG&A Ratio

SG&A/Gross Profit = 77.7%, exceeds 70%

B4Gross Margin

Gross margin 42.1%, change -0.6pp. Stable

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Cash Flow Quality

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C1CFFO vs Net Income

CFFO/NI = -0.82. Below 1.0

C2Free Cash Flow

FCF $0.3B, FCF/NI = -0.74

C3Accruals Ratio

Accruals ratio = -10.2%. Low accruals

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C4Cash vs Debt

Cash $0.9B covers 54% of debt $1.7B

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Balance Sheet Health

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D1Goodwill + Intangibles

Goodwill+Intangibles $0.8B = 41% of equity

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D2Leverage

Debt/EBITDA = 8.6x (>4x). Financial stress

D3Soft Asset Growth

Other assets -96.4% vs revenue -0.8%. 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 0% YoY. Normal

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Manipulation Score

F1Beneish M-Score

M-Score = -3.82 (< -2.22). Unlikely manipulator

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Beneish M-Score

Manipulation Probability-3.82
-4.0 Clean-2.22 Grey-1.78 Danger0
0.906
DSRI
AR growing faster than revenue?
1.014
GMI
Gross margin declining?
0.187
AQI
Asset quality deteriorating?
0.992
SGI
Revenue growth rate
0.977
DEPI
Depreciation slowing?
1.015
SGAI
SG&A ratio changing?
-0.102
TATA
Accruals level
2.348
LVGI
Leverage increasing?
05

Altman Z-Score

1.56
Grey Zone
0 Distress1.102.605.0+ Safe
0.2152
Liquidity
-0.1248
Cumulative profit
0.0203
Operating efficiency
0.3966
Leverage

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