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Kinetik Holdings Inc. — Earnings Quality Grade F

KNTK · Energy

Major red flags

Revenue
$1.8B
2025
Net Income
$526M
2025
Gross Margin
33.8%
Free Cash Flow
$74M
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Screening Summary

11
Passed
2
Watch
3
Failed
-2.68
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 18 days, change -10 days YoY

A2AR vs Revenue Growth

AR growth -23.8% vs revenue growth 19.0%

A3Revenue vs CFFO

Revenue grew 19.0% but CFFO declined -5.2%

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Expense Quality

B1Inventory vs COGS

No material inventory

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B2CapEx vs Revenue

CapEx growth 92.0% is >2x revenue growth 19.0%

B3SG&A Ratio

SG&A/Gross Profit = 21.9%, excellent (<30%)

B4Gross Margin

Gross margin 33.8%, change -2.5pp. Stable

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Cash Flow Quality

C1CFFO vs Net Income

CFFO/NI = 1.15. Profits backed by cash

C2Free Cash Flow

FCF $0.1B, FCF/NI = 0.14

C3Accruals Ratio

Accruals ratio = -1.1%. Low accruals

C4Cash vs Debt

Cash $0.0B covers only 0% of debt $3.9B

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Balance Sheet Health

D1Goodwill + Intangibles

Goodwill+Intangibles $0.6B = -99% of equity. Manageable

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D2Leverage

Interest coverage = 0.7x (<2x). Financial stress

D3Soft Asset Growth

Insufficient data

D4Asset Impairment

No write-off data

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Acquisition Risk

E1Serial Acquirer FCF

FCF after acquisitions negative for 3 years

E2Goodwill Surge

Goodwill+Intangibles change -15% YoY. Normal

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Manipulation Score

F1Beneish M-Score

M-Score = -2.68 (< -2.22). Unlikely manipulator

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Beneish M-Score

Manipulation Probability-2.68
-4.0 Clean-2.22 Grey-1.78 Danger0
0.64
DSRI
AR growing faster than revenue?
1.075
GMI
Gross margin declining?
0.898
AQI
Asset quality deteriorating?
1.19
SGI
Revenue growth rate
0.966
DEPI
Depreciation slowing?
0.818
SGAI
SG&A ratio changing?
-0.011
TATA
Accruals level
1.033
LVGI
Leverage increasing?
05

Altman Z-Score

0.12
Distress Zone
0 Distress1.102.605.0+ Safe
-0.0195
Liquidity
-0.1136
Cumulative profit
0.113
Operating efficiency
-0.1357
Leverage

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