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Paysafe Limited — Earnings Quality Grade F

PSFE · Technology

Major red flags

Revenue
$1.7B
2025
Net Income
-$183M
2025
Gross Margin
56.4%
Free Cash Flow
$108M
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Screening Summary

12
Passed
2
Watch
3
Failed
-3.01
M-Score

Management Signals

No recent CEO, CFO, board, or accounting leadership signals found in SEC 8-K filings.
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Financial Trends

Revenue & Net Income ($B)

Margins (%)

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18-Point Screening

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Revenue Quality

A1DSO Change

DSO 30 days, change -4 days YoY

A2AR vs Revenue Growth

AR growth -12.5% vs revenue growth -0.2%

A3Revenue vs CFFO

Revenue -0.2%, CFFO -7.0%. Cash follows revenue

02

Expense Quality

B1Inventory vs COGS

No material inventory

B2CapEx vs Revenue

CapEx growth 6.2% vs revenue -0.2%. Normal

B3SG&A Ratio

SG&A/Gross Profit = 58.7%. Normal

B4Gross Margin

Gross margin 56.4%, change -1.6pp. Stable

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Cash Flow Quality

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C1CFFO vs Net Income

CFFO/NI = -1.29. Below 1.0

C2Free Cash Flow

FCF $0.1B, FCF/NI = -0.59

C3Accruals Ratio

Accruals ratio = -8.7%. Low accruals

C4Cash vs Debt

Cash $0.3B covers only 9% of debt $2.7B

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Balance Sheet Health

D1Goodwill + Intangibles

Goodwill+Intangibles $3.0B = 450% of equity. Over 50%

D2Leverage

Debt/EBITDA = 7.8x (>4x). Interest coverage = 0.9x (<2x). Financial stress

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D3Soft Asset Growth

Other assets grew 32.1% vs revenue -0.2%

D4Asset Impairment

No write-off data

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Acquisition Risk

E1Serial Acquirer FCF

FCF after acquisitions positive

E2Goodwill Surge

Goodwill+Intangibles change -0% YoY. Normal

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Manipulation Score

F1Beneish M-Score

M-Score = -3.01 (< -2.22). Unlikely manipulator

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Beneish M-Score

Manipulation Probability-3.01
-4.0 Clean-2.22 Grey-1.78 Danger0
0.876
DSRI
AR growing faster than revenue?
1.028
GMI
Gross margin declining?
0.974
AQI
Asset quality deteriorating?
0.998
SGI
Revenue growth rate
1.01
DEPI
Depreciation slowing?
0.981
SGAI
SG&A ratio changing?
-0.0872
TATA
Accruals level
1.059
LVGI
Leverage increasing?
05

Altman Z-Score

-0.93
Distress Zone
0 Distress1.102.605.0+ Safe
0.07
Liquidity
-0.5038
Cumulative profit
0.0134
Operating efficiency
0.1579
Leverage

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