Design Therapeutics, Inc. — Earnings Quality Grade F
DSGN · Healthcare
Major red flags
Screening Summary
Management Signals
Financial Trends
Revenue & Net Income ($B)
Margins (%)
18-Point Screening
Revenue Quality
Insufficient data
Insufficient data
Insufficient data
Expense Quality
No material inventory
Insufficient data
Insufficient data
Insufficient data
Cash Flow Quality
CFFO < Net Income for 3 consecutive years
Small-cap context: Small-cap CFFO/NI often diverges from working-capital swings, not necessarily manipulation.
FCF is negative ($-0.1B)
Accruals ratio = -6.8%. Low accruals
Cash $0.2B covers debt $0.0B
Balance Sheet Health
No goodwill. Clean balance sheet
Debt/EBITDA = -0.0x. Healthy
Insufficient data
No write-off data
Acquisition Risk
FCF after acquisitions negative for 3 years
Small-cap context: A single acquisition on a small balance sheet can trip serial-acquirer logic.
No goodwill
Manipulation Score
Insufficient data
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Generated from public financial data using forensic accounting frameworks. Not investment advice. Data: Yahoo Finance · 2026-04-25