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Costamare Inc. — Earnings Quality Grade F

CMRE · Industrials

Major red flags

Revenue
$878M
2025
Net Income
$365M
2025
Gross Margin
57.3%
Free Cash Flow
$242M
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Screening Summary

13
Passed
3
Watch
1
Failed
-1.96
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 5 days, change +2 days YoY

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A2AR vs Revenue Growth

AR growth 97.5% exceeds revenue growth -1.2%

A3Revenue vs CFFO

Revenue -1.2%, CFFO 1.2%. Cash follows revenue

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Expense Quality

B1Inventory vs COGS

Inventory 7.3% vs COGS 10.3%. Normal

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B2CapEx vs Revenue

CapEx growth 180.7% is >2x revenue growth -1.2%

B3SG&A Ratio

SG&A/Gross Profit = 4.0%, excellent (<30%)

B4Gross Margin

Gross margin 57.3%, change -4.5pp. Stable

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Cash Flow Quality

C1CFFO vs Net Income

CFFO/NI = 1.49. Profits backed by cash

C2Free Cash Flow

FCF $0.2B, FCF/NI = 0.66

C3Accruals Ratio

Accruals ratio = -4.7%. Low accruals

C4Cash vs Debt

Cash $0.6B covers only 39% of debt $1.5B

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Balance Sheet Health

D1Goodwill + Intangibles

No goodwill. Clean balance sheet

D2Leverage

Debt/EBITDA = 2.5x. Healthy

D3Soft Asset Growth

Other assets -96.0% vs revenue -1.2%. 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 -100% YoY. Normal

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Manipulation Score

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F1Beneish M-Score

M-Score = -1.96 (grey zone)

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Beneish M-Score

Manipulation Probability-1.96
-4.0 Clean-2.22 Grey-1.78 Danger0
1.999
DSRI
AR growing faster than revenue?
1.078
GMI
Gross margin declining?
0.426
AQI
Asset quality deteriorating?
0.988
SGI
Revenue growth rate
0.971
DEPI
Depreciation slowing?
0.82
SGAI
SG&A ratio changing?
-0.0465
TATA
Accruals level
1.017
LVGI
Leverage increasing?
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Altman Z-Score

3.36
Safe Zone
0 Distress1.102.605.0+ Safe
0.0756
Liquidity
0.2249
Cumulative profit
0.1259
Operating efficiency
1.2245
Leverage

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