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Worthington Enterprises, Inc. — Earnings Quality Grade F

WOR · Industrials

Major red flags

Revenue
$1.2B
2025
Net Income
$96M
2025
Gross Margin
27.7%
Free Cash Flow
$159M
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Screening Summary

12
Passed
2
Watch
3
Failed
-2.73
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 68 days, change +10 days YoY

A2AR vs Revenue Growth

AR outpaced revenue for 2 consecutive years

A3Revenue vs CFFO

Revenue -7.4%, CFFO -27.7%. Cash follows revenue

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Expense Quality

B1Inventory vs COGS

Inventory growth 2.9% far exceeds COGS -13.1%, margin rising. Fraud signal

B2CapEx vs Revenue

CapEx growth -39.4% vs revenue -7.4%. Normal

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B3SG&A Ratio

SG&A/Gross Profit = 84.1%, exceeds 70%

B4Gross Margin

Gross margin 27.7%, change +4.8pp. Stable

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Cash Flow Quality

C1CFFO vs Net Income

CFFO/NI = 2.18. Profits backed by cash

C2Free Cash Flow

FCF $0.2B, FCF/NI = 1.66

C3Accruals Ratio

Accruals ratio = -6.7%. Low accruals

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C4Cash vs Debt

Cash $0.3B covers 77% of debt $0.3B

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Balance Sheet Health

D1Goodwill + Intangibles

Goodwill+Intangibles $0.6B = 60% of equity. Over 50%

D2Leverage

Debt/EBITDA = 1.8x. Healthy

D3Soft Asset Growth

Other assets -2.9% vs revenue -7.4%. 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 3% YoY. Normal

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Manipulation Score

F1Beneish M-Score

M-Score = -2.73 (< -2.22). Unlikely manipulator

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Beneish M-Score

Manipulation Probability-2.73
-4.0 Clean-2.22 Grey-1.78 Danger0
1.166
DSRI
AR growing faster than revenue?
0.827
GMI
Gross margin declining?
0.964
AQI
Asset quality deteriorating?
0.926
SGI
Revenue growth rate
1.747
DEPI
Depreciation slowing?
1.022
SGAI
SG&A ratio changing?
-0.0671
TATA
Accruals level
1.014
LVGI
Leverage increasing?
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Altman Z-Score

4.91
Safe Zone
0 Distress1.102.605.0+ Safe
0.2882
Liquidity
0.3684
Cumulative profit
0.0772
Operating efficiency
1.2382
Leverage

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