F

MGE Energy Inc. — Earnings Quality Grade F

MGEE · Utilities

Major red flags

Revenue
$744M
2025
Net Income
$136M
2025
Gross Margin
41.5%
Free Cash Flow
-$80M
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Screening Summary

11
Passed
1
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

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Revenue Quality

A1DSO Change

DSO 28 days, change +1 days YoY

A2AR vs Revenue Growth

AR outpaced revenue for 2 consecutive years

A3Revenue vs CFFO

Revenue 9.9%, CFFO -5.2%. Cash follows revenue

02

Expense Quality

B1Inventory vs COGS

Inventory -5.1% vs COGS 9.2%. Normal

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B2CapEx vs Revenue

CapEx growth 44.9% is >2x revenue growth 9.9%

B3SG&A Ratio

Insufficient data

B4Gross Margin

Gross margin 41.5%, change +0.3pp. Stable

03

Cash Flow Quality

C1CFFO vs Net Income

CFFO/NI = 1.94. Profits backed by cash

C2Free Cash Flow

FCF < 50% of Net Income for 3 years

C3Accruals Ratio

Accruals ratio = -4.0%. Low accruals

C4Cash vs Debt

Cash $0.0B covers only 1% of debt $0.9B

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Balance Sheet Health

D1Goodwill + Intangibles

No goodwill. Clean balance sheet

D2Leverage

Debt/EBITDA = 3.0x. Healthy

D3Soft Asset Growth

Other assets -30.2% vs revenue 9.9%. 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

Insufficient data

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05

Altman Z-Score

1.86
Grey Zone
0 Distress1.102.605.0+ Safe
-0.0216
Liquidity
0.2638
Cumulative profit
0.0604
Operating efficiency
0.7043
Leverage

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