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Safehold Inc. New — Earnings Quality Grade F

SAFE · Real Estate

Major red flags

Revenue
$386M
2025
Net Income
$114M
2025
Gross Margin
98.8%
Free Cash Flow
$48M
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Screening Summary

10
Passed
0
Watch
6
Failed
-2.32
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 surged by 18 days (210 → 228)

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 5.4%, CFFO 26.3%. Cash follows revenue

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Expense Quality

B1Inventory vs COGS

No material inventory

B2CapEx vs Revenue

Insufficient data

B3SG&A Ratio

SG&A/Gross Profit = 14.3%, excellent (<30%)

B4Gross Margin

Gross margin 98.8%, change -0.1pp. Stable

03

Cash Flow Quality

C1CFFO vs Net Income

CFFO < Net Income for 3 consecutive years

Small-cap context: Small-cap CFFO/NI often diverges from working-capital swings, not necessarily manipulation.

C2Free Cash Flow

FCF < 50% of Net Income for 2 years

C3Accruals Ratio

Accruals ratio = 0.9%. Low accruals

C4Cash vs Debt

Cash $0.0B covers only 1% of debt $4.5B

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Balance Sheet Health

D1Goodwill + Intangibles

Goodwill+Intangibles $0.2B = 8% of equity. Manageable

D2Leverage

Debt/EBITDA = 13.4x (>4x). Interest coverage = 1.5x (<2x). Financial stress

D3Soft Asset Growth

Other assets -0.6% vs revenue 5.4%. Normal

D4Asset Impairment

No write-off data

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Acquisition Risk

E1Serial Acquirer FCF

FCF after acquisitions positive

E2Goodwill Surge

Goodwill+Intangibles change -2% YoY. Normal

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Manipulation Score

F1Beneish M-Score

M-Score = -2.32 (< -2.22). Unlikely manipulator

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Beneish M-Score

Manipulation Probability-2.32
-4.0 Clean-2.22 Grey-1.78 Danger0
1.085
DSRI
AR growing faster than revenue?
1.001
GMI
Gross margin declining?
0.972
AQI
Asset quality deteriorating?
1.054
SGI
Revenue growth rate
0.991
DEPI
Depreciation slowing?
0.938
SGAI
SG&A ratio changing?
0.0092
TATA
Accruals level
1.015
LVGI
Leverage increasing?

Altman Z-Score — Not Applicable

Safehold Inc. New 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