C

TriSalus Life Sciences, Inc. — Earnings Quality Grade C

TLSI · Healthcare

Some red flags

Revenue
$45M
2025
Net Income
-$39M
2025
Gross Margin
84.6%
Free Cash Flow
-$19M
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Screening Summary

10
Passed
6
Watch
1
Failed
-5.01
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 (%)

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18-Point Screening

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Revenue Quality

A1DSO Change

DSO 53 days, change -10 days YoY

A2AR vs Revenue Growth

AR growth 28.9% vs revenue growth 53.4%

A3Revenue vs CFFO

Revenue 53.4%, CFFO 55.9%. Cash follows revenue

02

Expense Quality

B1Inventory vs COGS

Inventory -24.0% vs COGS 69.8%. Normal

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B2CapEx vs Revenue

CapEx growth 166.1% is >2x revenue growth 53.4%

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B3SG&A Ratio

SG&A/Gross Profit = 131.4%, exceeds 70%

B4Gross Margin

Gross margin 84.6%, change -1.5pp. Stable

03

Cash Flow Quality

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C1CFFO vs Net Income

CFFO/NI = 0.46. Below 1.0

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C2Free Cash Flow

FCF is negative ($-0.0B)

C3Accruals Ratio

Accruals ratio = -60.0%. Low accruals

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C4Cash vs Debt

Cash $0.0B covers 59% of debt $0.0B

04

Balance Sheet Health

D1Goodwill + Intangibles

No goodwill. Clean balance sheet

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D2Leverage

Interest coverage = -4.9x (<2x). Financial stress

D3Soft Asset Growth

Other assets -1.2% vs revenue 53.4%. 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

06

Manipulation Score

F1Beneish M-Score

M-Score = -5.01 (< -2.22). Unlikely manipulator

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04

Beneish M-Score

Manipulation Probability-5.01
-4.0 Clean-2.22 Grey-1.78 Danger0
0.84
DSRI
AR growing faster than revenue?
1.018
GMI
Gross margin declining?
0.67
AQI
Asset quality deteriorating?
1.534
SGI
Revenue growth rate
1.081
DEPI
Depreciation slowing?
0.747
SGAI
SG&A ratio changing?
-0.6005
TATA
Accruals level
0.935
LVGI
Leverage increasing?
05

Altman Z-Score

-33.57
Distress Zone
0 Distress1.102.605.0+ Safe
0.5872
Liquidity
-9.3567
Cumulative profit
-0.9532
Operating efficiency
-0.4894
Leverage

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