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Merchants Bancorp — Earnings Quality Grade F

MBIN · Financial Services

Major red flags

Revenue
$677M
2025
Net Income
$219M
2025
Gross Margin
Free Cash Flow
-$377M
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Screening Summary

7
Passed
1
Watch
4
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 44 days, change -2 days YoY

A2AR vs Revenue Growth

AR growth -1.9% vs revenue growth 1.5%

A3Revenue vs CFFO

Revenue 1.5%, CFFO 59.1%. Cash follows revenue

02

Expense Quality

B1Inventory vs COGS

No material inventory

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B2CapEx vs Revenue

CapEx growth 92.6% is >2x revenue growth 1.5%

B3SG&A Ratio

Insufficient data

B4Gross Margin

Insufficient data

03

Cash Flow Quality

C1CFFO vs Net Income

CFFO < Net Income for 3 consecutive years

C2Free Cash Flow

FCF < 50% of Net Income for 3 years

C3Accruals Ratio

Accruals ratio = 2.9%. Low accruals

C4Cash vs Debt

Cash $0.2B covers only 6% of debt $3.8B

04

Balance Sheet Health

D1Goodwill + Intangibles

Goodwill+Intangibles $0.2B = 10% of equity. Manageable

D2Leverage

Insufficient data

D3Soft Asset Growth

Insufficient data

D4Asset Impairment

No write-off data

05

Acquisition Risk

E1Serial Acquirer FCF

FCF after acquisitions negative for 3 years

E2Goodwill Surge

Goodwill+Intangibles change 14% YoY. Normal

06

Manipulation Score

F1Beneish M-Score

Insufficient data

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Altman Z-Score — Not Applicable

Merchants Bancorp 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