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Ispire Technology Inc. — Earnings Quality Grade D

ISPR · Consumer Defensive

Significant concerns

Revenue
$127M
2025
Net Income
-$39M
2025
Gross Margin
17.8%
Free Cash Flow
-$9M
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Screening Summary

12
Passed
4
Watch
2
Failed
-3.93
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

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Revenue Quality

A1DSO Change

DSO 114 days, change -30 days YoY

A2AR vs Revenue Growth

AR growth -33.6% vs revenue growth -16.1%

A3Revenue vs CFFO

Revenue -16.1%, CFFO 59.7%. Cash follows revenue

02

Expense Quality

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B1Inventory vs COGS

Inventory growth 4.4% exceeds COGS -14.2%

B2CapEx vs Revenue

CapEx growth -35.1% vs revenue -16.1%. Normal

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B3SG&A Ratio

SG&A/Gross Profit = 169.8%, exceeds 70%

B4Gross Margin

Gross margin 17.8%, change -1.8pp. Stable

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Cash Flow Quality

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C1CFFO vs Net Income

CFFO/NI = 0.19. Below 1.0

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C2Free Cash Flow

FCF is negative ($-0.0B)

C3Accruals Ratio

Accruals ratio = -31.2%. Low accruals

C4Cash vs Debt

Cash $0.0B covers debt $0.0B

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Balance Sheet Health

D1Goodwill + Intangibles

No goodwill. Clean balance sheet

D2Leverage

Debt/EBITDA = -0.2x. Healthy

D3Soft Asset Growth

Other assets -25.9% vs revenue -16.1%. Normal

D4Asset Impairment

Write-offs surged 266% YoY, = 56% of NI. Possible big bath

05

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

No goodwill

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Manipulation Score

F1Beneish M-Score

M-Score = -3.93 (< -2.22). Unlikely manipulator

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Beneish M-Score

Manipulation Probability-3.93
-4.0 Clean-2.22 Grey-1.78 Danger0
0.791
DSRI
AR growing faster than revenue?
1.104
GMI
Gross margin declining?
1.84
AQI
Asset quality deteriorating?
0.839
SGI
Revenue growth rate
0.984
DEPI
Depreciation slowing?
1.217
SGAI
SG&A ratio changing?
-0.3117
TATA
Accruals level
1.023
LVGI
Leverage increasing?
05

Altman Z-Score

-3.99
Distress Zone
0 Distress1.102.605.0+ Safe
0.0036
Liquidity
-0.4702
Cumulative profit
-0.3703
Operating efficiency
0.006
Leverage

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