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Definitive Healthcare Corp. — Earnings Quality Grade F

DH · Healthcare

Major red flags

Revenue
$242M
2025
Net Income
-$139M
2025
Gross Margin
75.9%
Free Cash Flow
$37M
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Screening Summary

12
Passed
3
Watch
2
Failed
-3.79
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 80 days, change +1 days YoY

A2AR vs Revenue Growth

AR growth -3.3% vs revenue growth -4.2%

A3Revenue vs CFFO

Revenue -4.2%, CFFO -7.6%. Cash follows revenue

02

Expense Quality

B1Inventory vs COGS

No material inventory

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B2CapEx vs Revenue

CapEx growth 35.5% is >2x revenue growth -4.2%

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B3SG&A Ratio

SG&A/Gross Profit = 72.7%, exceeds 70%

B4Gross Margin

Gross margin 75.9%, change -2.4pp. 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.

C2Free Cash Flow

FCF $0.0B, FCF/NI = -0.27

C3Accruals Ratio

Accruals ratio = -26.2%. Low accruals

C4Cash vs Debt

Cash $0.2B covers debt $0.2B

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Balance Sheet Health

D1Goodwill + Intangibles

Goodwill+Intangibles $0.4B = 158% of equity. Over 50%

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D2Leverage

Interest coverage = -1.8x (<2x). Financial stress

D3Soft Asset Growth

Other assets -1.0% vs revenue -4.2%. 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 -36% YoY. Normal

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Manipulation Score

F1Beneish M-Score

M-Score = -3.79 (< -2.22). Unlikely manipulator

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Beneish M-Score

Manipulation Probability-3.79
-4.0 Clean-2.22 Grey-1.78 Danger0
1.01
DSRI
AR growing faster than revenue?
1.032
GMI
Gross margin declining?
0.962
AQI
Asset quality deteriorating?
0.958
SGI
Revenue growth rate
1.085
DEPI
Depreciation slowing?
1.046
SGAI
SG&A ratio changing?
-0.262
TATA
Accruals level
1.187
LVGI
Leverage increasing?
05

Altman Z-Score

-3.54
Distress Zone
0 Distress1.102.605.0+ Safe
0.1371
Liquidity
-1.0598
Cumulative profit
-0.2692
Operating efficiency
0.7885
Leverage

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