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Sonida Senior Living, Inc. — Earnings Quality Grade F

SNDA · Healthcare

Major red flags

Revenue
$381M
2025
Net Income
-$71M
2025
Gross Margin
88.3%
Free Cash Flow
-$9M
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Screening Summary

12
Passed
1
Watch
4
Failed
-3.1
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 18 days, change -5 days YoY

A2AR vs Revenue Growth

AR growth -1.9% vs revenue growth 25.2%

A3Revenue vs CFFO

Revenue 25.2%, CFFO 1467.2%. Cash follows revenue

02

Expense Quality

B1Inventory vs COGS

No material inventory

B2CapEx vs Revenue

CapEx growth 32.2% vs revenue 25.2%. Normal

B3SG&A Ratio

SG&A/Gross Profit = 11.8%, excellent (<30%)

B4Gross Margin

Gross margin 88.3%, change -0.9pp. 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.

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C2Free Cash Flow

FCF is negative ($-0.0B)

C3Accruals Ratio

Accruals ratio = -11.3%. Low accruals

C4Cash vs Debt

Cash $0.0B covers only 2% of debt $0.7B

04

Balance Sheet Health

D1Goodwill + Intangibles

No goodwill. Clean balance sheet

D2Leverage

Debt/EBITDA = 29.7x (>4x). Interest coverage = -0.3x (<2x). Financial stress

D3Soft Asset Growth

Other assets -9.4% vs revenue 25.2%. Normal

D4Asset Impairment

No write-off data

05

Acquisition Risk

E1Serial Acquirer FCF

FCF after acquisitions negative for 3 years

Small-cap context: A single acquisition on a small balance sheet can trip serial-acquirer logic.

E2Goodwill Surge

No goodwill

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Manipulation Score

F1Beneish M-Score

M-Score = -3.10 (< -2.22). Unlikely manipulator

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04

Beneish M-Score

Manipulation Probability-3.1
-4.0 Clean-2.22 Grey-1.78 Danger0
0.784
DSRI
AR growing faster than revenue?
1.01
GMI
Gross margin declining?
0.808
AQI
Asset quality deteriorating?
1.252
SGI
Revenue growth rate
0.785
DEPI
Depreciation slowing?
0.932
SGAI
SG&A ratio changing?
-0.1126
TATA
Accruals level
1.103
LVGI
Leverage increasing?
05

Altman Z-Score

-2.3
Distress Zone
0 Distress1.102.605.0+ Safe
-0.0323
Liquidity
-0.5812
Cumulative profit
-0.0397
Operating efficiency
0.065
Leverage

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