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Holley Inc. — Earnings Quality Grade F

HLLY · Consumer Cyclical

Major red flags

Revenue
$614M
2025
Net Income
$19M
2025
Gross Margin
43.4%
Free Cash Flow
$14M
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Screening Summary

9
Passed
4
Watch
3
Failed
-2.09
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

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A1DSO Change

DSO increased by 13 days

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A2AR vs Revenue Growth

AR growth 60.3% exceeds revenue growth 1.9%

A3Revenue vs CFFO

Revenue 1.9%, CFFO -1.4%. Cash follows revenue

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Expense Quality

B1Inventory vs COGS

Inventory 6.8% vs COGS -4.5%. Normal

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B2CapEx vs Revenue

CapEx growth 378.4% is >2x revenue growth 1.9%

B3SG&A Ratio

SG&A/Gross Profit = 54.9%. Normal

B4Gross Margin

Gross margin 43.4%, change +3.8pp. Stable

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Cash Flow Quality

C1CFFO vs Net Income

CFFO/NI = 2.41. Profits backed by cash

C2Free Cash Flow

FCF $0.0B, FCF/NI = 0.71

C3Accruals Ratio

Accruals ratio = -2.3%. Low accruals

C4Cash vs Debt

Cash $0.0B covers only 7% of debt $0.5B

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Balance Sheet Health

D1Goodwill + Intangibles

Goodwill+Intangibles $0.8B = 171% of equity. Over 50%

D2Leverage

Debt/EBITDA = 4.8x (>4x). Interest coverage = 1.6x (<2x). Financial stress

D3Soft Asset Growth

Insufficient data

D4Asset Impairment

No write-off data

05

Acquisition Risk

E1Serial Acquirer FCF

FCF after acquisitions positive

E2Goodwill Surge

Goodwill+Intangibles change 1% YoY. Normal

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Manipulation Score

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F1Beneish M-Score

M-Score = -2.09 (grey zone)

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Beneish M-Score

Manipulation Probability-2.09
-4.0 Clean-2.22 Grey-1.78 Danger0
1.573
DSRI
AR growing faster than revenue?
0.913
GMI
Gross margin declining?
0.987
AQI
Asset quality deteriorating?
1.019
SGI
Revenue growth rate
1.035
DEPI
Depreciation slowing?
1.085
SGAI
SG&A ratio changing?
-0.0232
TATA
Accruals level
0.959
LVGI
Leverage increasing?
05

Altman Z-Score

2.44
Grey Zone
0 Distress1.102.605.0+ Safe
0.1727
Liquidity
0.0549
Cumulative profit
0.0691
Operating efficiency
0.6278
Leverage

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