F

Navient Corporation — Earnings Quality Grade F

NAVI · Financial Services

Major red flags

Revenue
$610M
2025
Net Income
-$80M
2025
Gross Margin
Free Cash Flow
$441M
01

Screening Summary

7
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

01

Revenue Quality

A1DSO Change

DSO surged by 322 days (677 → 999)

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 outpaced revenue for 2 consecutive years

A3Revenue vs CFFO

Revenue -36.5%, CFFO -3.9%. Cash follows revenue

02

Expense Quality

B1Inventory vs COGS

No material inventory

B2CapEx vs Revenue

Insufficient data

B3SG&A Ratio

Insufficient data

B4Gross Margin

Insufficient data

03

Cash Flow Quality

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C1CFFO vs Net Income

CFFO/NI = -5.51. Below 1.0

C2Free Cash Flow

FCF $0.4B, FCF/NI = -5.51

C3Accruals Ratio

Accruals ratio = -1.1%. Low accruals

C4Cash vs Debt

Cash $0.6B covers only 1% of debt $45.2B

04

Balance Sheet Health

D1Goodwill + Intangibles

Goodwill+Intangibles $0.4B = 18% 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 positive

E2Goodwill Surge

Goodwill+Intangibles change -1% YoY. Normal

06

Manipulation Score

F1Beneish M-Score

Insufficient data

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Altman Z-Score — Not Applicable

Navient Corporation 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