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Travelzoo — Earnings Quality Grade B

TZOO · Communication Services

Generally healthy

Revenue
$92M
2025
Net Income
$5M
2025
Gross Margin
80.3%
Free Cash Flow
$6M
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Screening Summary

14
Passed
2
Watch
0
Failed
-2.52
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 43 days, change -13 days YoY

A2AR vs Revenue Growth

AR growth -16.4% vs revenue growth 9.3%

A3Revenue vs CFFO

Revenue 9.3%, CFFO -73.2%. Cash follows revenue

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Expense Quality

B1Inventory vs COGS

Insufficient data

B2CapEx vs Revenue

CapEx growth -63.3% vs revenue 9.3%. Normal

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B3SG&A Ratio

SG&A/Gross Profit = 87.2%, exceeds 70%

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B4Gross Margin

Gross margin swung -7.2pp (87.5% → 80.3%)

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Cash Flow Quality

C1CFFO vs Net Income

CFFO/NI = 1.20. Profits backed by cash

C2Free Cash Flow

FCF $0.0B, FCF/NI = 1.19

C3Accruals Ratio

Accruals ratio = -2.1%. Low accruals

C4Cash vs Debt

Cash $0.0B covers debt $0.0B

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Balance Sheet Health

D1Goodwill + Intangibles

Goodwill+Intangibles $0.0B = -165% of equity. Manageable

D2Leverage

Debt/EBITDA = 0.8x. Healthy

D3Soft Asset Growth

Other assets -12.1% vs revenue 9.3%. 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 = -2.52 (< -2.22). Unlikely manipulator

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Beneish M-Score

Manipulation Probability-2.52
-4.0 Clean-2.22 Grey-1.78 Danger0
0.765
DSRI
AR growing faster than revenue?
1.09
GMI
Gross margin declining?
1.257
AQI
Asset quality deteriorating?
1.093
SGI
Revenue growth rate
1.951
DEPI
Depreciation slowing?
1.118
SGAI
SG&A ratio changing?
-0.0213
TATA
Accruals level
1.134
LVGI
Leverage increasing?
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Altman Z-Score

-0.18
Distress Zone
0 Distress1.102.605.0+ Safe
-0.2384
Liquidity
0.1603
Cumulative profit
0.1528
Operating efficiency
-0.1579
Leverage

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