ConocoPhillips — Earnings Quality Grade F
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Major red flags
Screening Summary
Financial Trends
Revenue & Net Income ($B)
Margins (%)
18-Point Screening
Revenue Quality
DSO 36 days, change -9 days YoY
AR growth -13.2% vs revenue growth 7.7%
Revenue 7.7%, CFFO -1.6%. Cash follows revenue
Expense Quality
Inventory 3.5% vs COGS 15.1%. Normal
CapEx growth 3.6% vs revenue 7.7%. Normal
SG&A/Gross Profit = 6.0%, excellent (<30%)
Gross margin 25.1%, change -4.8pp. Stable
Cash Flow Quality
CFFO/NI = 2.48. Profits backed by cash
FCF $7.2B, FCF/NI = 0.91
Accruals ratio = -9.7%. Low accruals
Cash $7.0B covers only 30% of debt $23.4B
Balance Sheet Health
No goodwill. Clean balance sheet
Debt/EBITDA = 0.9x. Healthy
Other assets 2.6% vs revenue 7.7%. Normal
No write-off data
Acquisition Risk
FCF after acquisitions positive
No goodwill
Manipulation Score
M-Score = -2.89 (< -2.22). Unlikely manipulator
Beneish M-Score
Altman Z-Score
Generated from public financial data using forensic accounting frameworks. Not investment advice. Data: Yahoo Finance · 2026-04-10