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Whitestone REIT — Earnings Quality Grade F

WSR · Real Estate

Major red flags

Revenue
$162M
2025
Net Income
$50M
2025
Gross Margin
69.0%
Free Cash Flow
$51M
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Screening Summary

15
Passed
0
Watch
2
Failed
-2.44
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 38 days, change -2 days YoY

A2AR vs Revenue Growth

AR growth -1.5% vs revenue growth 4.0%

A3Revenue vs CFFO

Revenue 4.0%, CFFO -12.8%. Cash follows revenue

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Expense Quality

B1Inventory vs COGS

No material inventory

B2CapEx vs Revenue

Insufficient data

B3SG&A Ratio

SG&A/Gross Profit = 19.0%, excellent (<30%)

B4Gross Margin

Gross margin 69.0%, change -1.4pp. Stable

03

Cash Flow Quality

C1CFFO vs Net Income

CFFO/NI = 1.02. Profits backed by cash

C2Free Cash Flow

FCF $0.1B, FCF/NI = 1.02

C3Accruals Ratio

Accruals ratio = -0.1%. Low accruals

C4Cash vs Debt

Cash $0.0B covers only 1% of debt $0.6B

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Balance Sheet Health

D1Goodwill + Intangibles

No goodwill. Clean balance sheet

D2Leverage

Debt/EBITDA = 5.3x (>4x). Interest coverage = 1.6x (<2x). Financial stress

D3Soft Asset Growth

Other assets -56.2% vs revenue 4.0%. Normal

D4Asset Impairment

Write-offs normal

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Acquisition Risk

E1Serial Acquirer FCF

FCF after acquisitions positive

E2Goodwill Surge

No goodwill

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Manipulation Score

F1Beneish M-Score

M-Score = -2.44 (< -2.22). Unlikely manipulator

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Beneish M-Score

Manipulation Probability-2.44
-4.0 Clean-2.22 Grey-1.78 Danger0
0.947
DSRI
AR growing faster than revenue?
1.021
GMI
Gross margin declining?
1.05
AQI
Asset quality deteriorating?
1.04
SGI
Revenue growth rate
1.001
DEPI
Depreciation slowing?
0.88
SGAI
SG&A ratio changing?
-0.0007
TATA
Accruals level
0.992
LVGI
Leverage increasing?

Altman Z-Score — Not Applicable

Whitestone REIT 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