California Resources Corporatio — Earnings Quality Grade F
CRC · Energy
Major red flags
Screening Summary
Management Signals
Financial Trends
Revenue & Net Income ($B)
Margins (%)
18-Point Screening
Revenue Quality
DSO 36 days, change -5 days YoY
AR growth 0.9% vs revenue growth 15.1%
Revenue 15.1%, CFFO 41.8%. Cash follows revenue
Expense Quality
Inventory 17.8% vs COGS 25.0%. Normal
Insufficient data
SG&A/Gross Profit = 23.5%, excellent (<30%)
Gross margin 41.7%, change -4.6pp. Stable
Cash Flow Quality
CFFO/NI = 2.38. Profits backed by cash
FCF $0.9B, FCF/NI = 2.38
Accruals ratio = -6.8%. Low accruals
Cash $0.1B covers only 10% of debt $1.4B
Balance Sheet Health
No goodwill. Clean balance sheet
Debt/EBITDA = 1.2x. Healthy
Other assets 10.4% vs revenue 15.1%. Normal
No write-off data
Acquisition Risk
FCF after acquisitions positive
No goodwill
Manipulation Score
M-Score = -2.56 (< -2.22). Unlikely manipulator
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Generated from public financial data using forensic accounting frameworks. Not investment advice. Data: Yahoo Finance · 2026-04-25