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Sunstone Hotel Investors, Inc. — Earnings Quality Grade F

SHO · Real Estate

Major red flags

Revenue
$960M
2025
Net Income
$25M
2025
Gross Margin
46.0%
Free Cash Flow
$182M
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Screening Summary

14
Passed
0
Watch
2
Failed
-2.77
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 13 days, change -1 days YoY

A2AR vs Revenue Growth

AR growth -1.3% vs revenue growth 6.0%

A3Revenue vs CFFO

Revenue 6.0%, CFFO 6.7%. Cash follows revenue

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Expense Quality

B1Inventory vs COGS

Inventory 10.3% vs COGS 7.0%. Normal

B2CapEx vs Revenue

Insufficient data

B3SG&A Ratio

SG&A/Gross Profit = 12.3%, excellent (<30%)

B4Gross Margin

Gross margin 46.0%, change -0.5pp. Stable

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Cash Flow Quality

C1CFFO vs Net Income

CFFO/NI = 7.40. Profits backed by cash

C2Free Cash Flow

FCF $0.2B, FCF/NI = 7.40

C3Accruals Ratio

Accruals ratio = -5.2%. Low accruals

C4Cash vs Debt

Cash $0.1B covers only 12% of debt $0.9B

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Balance Sheet Health

D1Goodwill + Intangibles

Goodwill+Intangibles $0.0B = 0% of equity. Manageable

D2Leverage

Debt/EBITDA = 4.4x (>4x). Interest coverage = 1.5x (<2x). Financial stress

D3Soft Asset Growth

Other assets 1.9% vs revenue 6.0%. 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 0% YoY. Normal

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Manipulation Score

F1Beneish M-Score

M-Score = -2.77 (< -2.22). Unlikely manipulator

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Beneish M-Score

Manipulation Probability-2.77
-4.0 Clean-2.22 Grey-1.78 Danger0
0.931
DSRI
AR growing faster than revenue?
1.011
GMI
Gross margin declining?
0.997
AQI
Asset quality deteriorating?
1.06
SGI
Revenue growth rate
0.962
DEPI
Depreciation slowing?
0.981
SGAI
SG&A ratio changing?
-0.0519
TATA
Accruals level
1.121
LVGI
Leverage increasing?

Altman Z-Score — Not Applicable

Sunstone Hotel Investors, Inc. 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