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loanDepot, Inc. — Earnings Quality Grade F

LDI · Financial Services

Major red flags

Revenue
$940M
2025
Net Income
-$63M
2025
Gross Margin
Free Cash Flow
-$735M
01

Screening Summary

8
Passed
2
Watch
3
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 10 days, change -4 days YoY

A2AR vs Revenue Growth

AR growth -13.6% vs revenue growth 20.3%

A3Revenue vs CFFO

Revenue 20.3%, CFFO 17.6%. Cash follows revenue

02

Expense Quality

B1Inventory vs COGS

No material inventory

B2CapEx vs Revenue

CapEx growth 2.7% vs revenue 20.3%. Normal

B3SG&A Ratio

Insufficient data

B4Gross Margin

Insufficient data

03

Cash Flow Quality

C1CFFO vs Net Income

CFFO/NI = 11.29. Profits backed by cash

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C2Free Cash Flow

FCF is negative ($-0.7B)

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C3Accruals Ratio

Accruals ratio = 9.4%. Elevated

C4Cash vs Debt

Cash $0.3B covers only 7% of debt $5.0B

04

Balance Sheet Health

D1Goodwill + Intangibles

Goodwill+Intangibles $1.7B = 707% of equity. Over 50%

D2Leverage

Insufficient data

D3Soft Asset Growth

Insufficient data

D4Asset Impairment

Write-offs normal

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

Goodwill+Intangibles change 2% YoY. Normal

06

Manipulation Score

F1Beneish M-Score

Insufficient data

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Altman Z-Score — Not Applicable

loanDepot, Inc. 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