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Ramaco Resources, Inc. — Earnings Quality Grade F

METC · Basic Materials

Major red flags

Revenue
$537M
2025
Net Income
-$51M
2025
Gross Margin
15.5%
Free Cash Flow
-$82M
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Screening Summary

10
Passed
6
Watch
1
Failed
-3.23
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 (%)

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18-Point Screening

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Revenue Quality

A1DSO Change

DSO 37 days, change -3 days YoY

A2AR vs Revenue Growth

AR growth -26.1% vs revenue growth -19.5%

A3Revenue vs CFFO

Revenue -19.5%, CFFO -98.3%. Cash follows revenue

02

Expense Quality

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B1Inventory vs COGS

Inventory growth 101.0% exceeds COGS -15.0%

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B2CapEx vs Revenue

CapEx growth 22.4% is >2x revenue growth -19.5%

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B3SG&A Ratio

SG&A/Gross Profit = 83.3%, exceeds 70%

B4Gross Margin

Gross margin 15.5%, change -4.5pp. Stable

03

Cash Flow Quality

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C1CFFO vs Net Income

CFFO/NI = -0.04. Below 1.0

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C2Free Cash Flow

FCF is negative ($-0.1B)

C3Accruals Ratio

Accruals ratio = -4.7%. Low accruals

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C4Cash vs Debt

Cash $0.4B covers 94% of debt $0.5B

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Balance Sheet Health

D1Goodwill + Intangibles

No goodwill. Clean balance sheet

D2Leverage

Debt/EBITDA = 33.9x (>4x). Interest coverage = -7.2x (<2x). Financial stress

D3Soft Asset Growth

Other assets 19.7% vs revenue -19.5%. Normal

D4Asset Impairment

No write-off data

05

Acquisition Risk

E1Serial Acquirer FCF

FCF after acquisitions positive

E2Goodwill Surge

No goodwill

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Manipulation Score

F1Beneish M-Score

M-Score = -3.23 (< -2.22). Unlikely manipulator

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Beneish M-Score

Manipulation Probability-3.23
-4.0 Clean-2.22 Grey-1.78 Danger0
0.917
DSRI
AR growing faster than revenue?
1.287
GMI
Gross margin declining?
0.717
AQI
Asset quality deteriorating?
0.805
SGI
Revenue growth rate
0.995
DEPI
Depreciation slowing?
1.747
SGAI
SG&A ratio changing?
-0.0468
TATA
Accruals level
1.575
LVGI
Leverage increasing?
05

Altman Z-Score

3.26
Safe Zone
0 Distress1.102.605.0+ Safe
0.4279
Liquidity
-0.0003
Cumulative profit
-0.0476
Operating efficiency
0.736
Leverage

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