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ConocoPhillips — Earnings Quality Grade F

COP · Energy

Major red flags

Revenue
$58.9B
2025
Net Income
$8.0B
2025
Gross Margin
25.1%
Free Cash Flow
$7.2B
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Screening Summary

16
Passed
0
Watch
1
Failed
-2.89
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

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Revenue Quality

A1DSO Change

DSO 36 days, change -9 days YoY

A2AR vs Revenue Growth

AR growth -13.2% vs revenue growth 7.7%

A3Revenue vs CFFO

Revenue 7.7%, CFFO -1.6%. Cash follows revenue

02

Expense Quality

B1Inventory vs COGS

Inventory 3.5% vs COGS 15.1%. Normal

B2CapEx vs Revenue

CapEx growth 3.6% vs revenue 7.7%. Normal

B3SG&A Ratio

SG&A/Gross Profit = 6.0%, excellent (<30%)

B4Gross Margin

Gross margin 25.1%, change -4.8pp. Stable

03

Cash Flow Quality

C1CFFO vs Net Income

CFFO/NI = 2.48. Profits backed by cash

C2Free Cash Flow

FCF $7.2B, FCF/NI = 0.91

C3Accruals Ratio

Accruals ratio = -9.7%. Low accruals

C4Cash vs Debt

Cash $7.0B covers only 30% of debt $23.4B

04

Balance Sheet Health

D1Goodwill + Intangibles

No goodwill. Clean balance sheet

D2Leverage

Debt/EBITDA = 0.9x. Healthy

D3Soft Asset Growth

Other assets 2.6% vs revenue 7.7%. Normal

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

M-Score = -2.89 (< -2.22). Unlikely manipulator

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04

Beneish M-Score

Manipulation Probability-2.89
-4.0 Clean-2.22 Grey-1.78 Danger0
0.806
DSRI
AR growing faster than revenue?
1.193
GMI
Gross margin declining?
1.038
AQI
Asset quality deteriorating?
1.077
SGI
Revenue growth rate
0.841
DEPI
Depreciation slowing?
0.716
SGAI
SG&A ratio changing?
-0.0968
TATA
Accruals level
0.982
LVGI
Leverage increasing?
05

Altman Z-Score

3.98
Safe Zone
0 Distress1.102.605.0+ Safe
0.0292
Liquidity
0.5647
Cumulative profit
0.1139
Operating efficiency
1.1225
Leverage

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

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Updated 2026-05-19