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Cinemark Holdings Inc Cinemark — Earnings Quality Grade F

CNK · Communication Services

Major red flags

Revenue
$3.1B
2025
Net Income
$138M
2025
Gross Margin
64.1%
Free Cash Flow
$177M
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Screening Summary

12
Passed
2
Watch
3
Failed
-2.64
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 13 days, change +0 days YoY

A2AR vs Revenue Growth

AR outpaced revenue for 2 consecutive years

A3Revenue vs CFFO

Revenue 2.1%, CFFO -15.0%. Cash follows revenue

02

Expense Quality

B1Inventory vs COGS

Inventory -6.1% vs COGS 3.0%. Normal

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B2CapEx vs Revenue

CapEx growth 45.2% is >2x revenue growth 2.1%

B3SG&A Ratio

SG&A/Gross Profit = 48.5%. Normal

B4Gross Margin

Gross margin 64.1%, change -0.3pp. Stable

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Cash Flow Quality

C1CFFO vs Net Income

CFFO/NI = 2.87. Profits backed by cash

C2Free Cash Flow

FCF $0.2B, FCF/NI = 1.28

C3Accruals Ratio

Accruals ratio = -5.8%. Low accruals

C4Cash vs Debt

Cash $0.3B covers only 12% of debt $3.0B

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Balance Sheet Health

D1Goodwill + Intangibles

Goodwill+Intangibles $1.5B = 382% of equity. Over 50%

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D2Leverage

Debt/EBITDA = 5.8x (>4x). Financial stress

D3Soft Asset Growth

Other assets -6.3% vs revenue 2.1%. 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 = -2.64 (< -2.22). Unlikely manipulator

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Beneish M-Score

Manipulation Probability-2.64
-4.0 Clean-2.22 Grey-1.78 Danger0
1.03
DSRI
AR growing faster than revenue?
1.005
GMI
Gross margin declining?
1.154
AQI
Asset quality deteriorating?
1.021
SGI
Revenue growth rate
1.002
DEPI
Depreciation slowing?
1.004
SGAI
SG&A ratio changing?
-0.0582
TATA
Accruals level
0.985
LVGI
Leverage increasing?
05

Altman Z-Score

0.17
Distress Zone
0 Distress1.102.605.0+ Safe
-0.0563
Liquidity
-0.0145
Cumulative profit
0.0716
Operating efficiency
0.1008
Leverage

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