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Hawaiian Electric Industries, I — Earnings Quality Grade F

HE · Utilities

Major red flags

Revenue
$3.1B
2025
Net Income
$126M
2025
Gross Margin
7.6%
Free Cash Flow
$50M
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Screening Summary

11
Passed
3
Watch
1
Failed
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 (%)

03

18-Point Screening

01

Revenue Quality

A1DSO Change

DSO 58 days, change +6 days YoY

A2AR vs Revenue Growth

AR growth 7.5% vs revenue growth -4.1%

A3Revenue vs CFFO

Revenue -4.1%, CFFO -19.8%. Cash follows revenue

02

Expense Quality

B1Inventory vs COGS

No material inventory

B2CapEx vs Revenue

CapEx growth -0.9% vs revenue -4.1%. Normal

B3SG&A Ratio

Insufficient data

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B4Gross Margin

Gross margin swung +60.6pp (-53.0% → 7.6%)

03

Cash Flow Quality

C1CFFO vs Net Income

CFFO/NI = 3.10. Profits backed by cash

C2Free Cash Flow

FCF $0.0B, FCF/NI = 0.39

C3Accruals Ratio

Accruals ratio = -3.0%. Low accruals

C4Cash vs Debt

Cash $0.5B covers only 17% of debt $3.0B

04

Balance Sheet Health

D1Goodwill + Intangibles

No goodwill. Clean balance sheet

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D2Leverage

Debt/EBITDA = 5.1x (>4x). Financial stress

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D3Soft Asset Growth

Other assets grew 20.9% vs revenue -4.1%

D4Asset Impairment

No write-off data

05

Acquisition Risk

E1Serial Acquirer FCF

FCF after acquisitions positive

E2Goodwill Surge

No goodwill

06

Manipulation Score

F1Beneish M-Score

Insufficient data

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05

Altman Z-Score

0.53
Distress Zone
0 Distress1.102.605.0+ Safe
0.0512
Liquidity
-0.0746
Cumulative profit
0.0312
Operating efficiency
0.2195
Leverage

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