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Claritev Corporation — Earnings Quality Grade F

CTEV · Healthcare

Major red flags

Revenue
$965M
2025
Net Income
-$284M
2025
Gross Margin
67.2%
Free Cash Flow
-$12M
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Screening Summary

10
Passed
2
Watch
5
Failed
-2.65
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 (%)

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18-Point Screening

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Revenue Quality

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A1DSO Change

DSO increased by 13 days

A2AR vs Revenue Growth

AR outpaced revenue for 2 consecutive years

A3Revenue vs CFFO

Revenue 3.7%, CFFO 9.0%. Cash follows revenue

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Expense Quality

B1Inventory vs COGS

No material inventory

B2CapEx vs Revenue

CapEx growth 9.7% vs revenue 3.7%. Normal

B3SG&A Ratio

SG&A/Gross Profit = 24.4%, excellent (<30%)

B4Gross Margin

Gross margin 67.2%, change -0.2pp. Stable

03

Cash Flow Quality

C1CFFO vs Net Income

CFFO < Net Income for 3 consecutive years

Small-cap context: Small-cap CFFO/NI often diverges from working-capital swings, not necessarily manipulation.

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C2Free Cash Flow

FCF is negative ($-0.0B)

C3Accruals Ratio

Accruals ratio = -8.2%. Low accruals

C4Cash vs Debt

Cash $0.0B covers only 0% of debt $4.6B

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Balance Sheet Health

D1Goodwill + Intangibles

Goodwill+Intangibles $4.3B = -2467% of equity. Manageable

D2Leverage

Debt/EBITDA = 9.9x (>4x). Interest coverage = 0.1x (<2x). Financial stress

D3Soft Asset Growth

Other assets -10.1% vs revenue 3.7%. Normal

D4Asset Impairment

No write-off data

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Acquisition Risk

E1Serial Acquirer FCF

FCF after acquisitions negative for 3 years

Small-cap context: A single acquisition on a small balance sheet can trip serial-acquirer logic.

E2Goodwill Surge

Goodwill+Intangibles change -7% YoY. Normal

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Manipulation Score

F1Beneish M-Score

M-Score = -2.65 (< -2.22). Unlikely manipulator

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Beneish M-Score

Manipulation Probability-2.65
-4.0 Clean-2.22 Grey-1.78 Danger0
1.371
DSRI
AR growing faster than revenue?
1.002
GMI
Gross margin declining?
0.976
AQI
Asset quality deteriorating?
1.037
SGI
Revenue growth rate
1.03
DEPI
Depreciation slowing?
1.76
SGAI
SG&A ratio changing?
-0.0822
TATA
Accruals level
1.08
LVGI
Leverage increasing?
05

Altman Z-Score

-1.68
Distress Zone
0 Distress1.102.605.0+ Safe
-0.0076
Liquidity
-0.497
Cumulative profit
0.0039
Operating efficiency
-0.0344
Leverage

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