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KKR Real Estate Finance Trust I — Earnings Quality Grade F

KREF · Real Estate

Major red flags

Revenue
$113M
2025
Net Income
-$47M
2025
Gross Margin
Free Cash Flow
$67M
01

Screening Summary

9
Passed
1
Watch
2
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 surged by 22 days (68 → 89)

Small-cap context: DSO swings on a small revenue base are more often quarterly customer-mix effects than red flags.

A2AR vs Revenue Growth

AR growth -3.7% vs revenue growth -27.2%

A3Revenue vs CFFO

Revenue -27.2%, CFFO -45.5%. Cash follows revenue

02

Expense Quality

B1Inventory vs COGS

No material inventory

B2CapEx vs Revenue

CapEx growth -31.1% vs revenue -27.2%. Normal

B3SG&A Ratio

Insufficient data

B4Gross Margin

Insufficient data

03

Cash Flow Quality

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C1CFFO vs Net Income

CFFO/NI = -1.54. Below 1.0

C2Free Cash Flow

FCF $0.1B, FCF/NI = -1.42

C3Accruals Ratio

Accruals ratio = -1.8%. Low accruals

C4Cash vs Debt

Cash $0.1B covers only 2% of debt $4.1B

04

Balance Sheet Health

D1Goodwill + Intangibles

No goodwill. Clean balance sheet

D2Leverage

Insufficient data

D3Soft Asset Growth

Insufficient data

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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Altman Z-Score — Not Applicable

KKR Real Estate Finance Trust I is a financial company. Z-Score is designed for non-financial companies.

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