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Red Flags Identified


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Wall Street Drivers beta

📊 Professional Investors(wallstreet) pay a lot of heed at these numbers, long term history matters - specially 9+ year trends
Score 6.0 / 10.0

  • revenue cagr for last 5 years
  • insight: ['5.52 is greater than equal to 5']
  • mental_model: We prefer growing Business which grow >= 5% YoY, better than GDP growth of >= 2-3%
  • cashflows cagr for last 3 years
  • insight: ['15.59 is greater than equal to 5']
  • mental_model: We prefer growing Business which generate cashflows >= 5% YoY, for some industries like finance specially Banks this might be lower/red and its OK for them
  • shares outstanding cagr for last 5 years
  • insight: ['0.2 is less than equal to 2']
  • mental_model: As a business owner equity is important, We want less dilution over years OR it should reduce so our share of business increases with time, less than 2% is ideal, >=10% is potentially bad be careful
  • debt cagr for last 5 years
  • insight: ['79.2 is NOT less than equal to 2']
  • mental_model: We prefer Business with lower debt growth
  • equity cagr for last 5 years
  • insight: ['0.19 is NOT greater than equal to 5']
  • mental_model: We prefer growing Business having shareholder equity growth >= 5% YoY
  • leverage average for last 3 years
  • insight: ['3.01 is less than equal to 5', '3.01 is greater than equal to 0']
  • mental_model: We prefer Business which can pay their debts in less than 5 years using cashflows, for some industries like finance specially Banks this might be lower/red and its OK for them
  • roe_cashflow::operating average for last 3 years
  • insight: ['7.81 is NOT greater than equal to 10']
  • mental_model: Good Business have return on equity >= 10%
  • roce_cashflow::operating average for last 3 years
  • insight: ['6.36 is NOT greater than equal to 15']
  • mental_model: Good Business have return on capital >= 15%
  • roic_cashflow::operating average for last 3 years
  • insight: ['22.25 is greater than equal to 15']
  • mental_model: Good Business have return on invested capital >= 15%

Business Durability beta

🏰 Quality companies with moats show higher or stable trends, long term trends matters, Consistency is the Key
Score 10.0 / 10.0

  • margin cashflow running_sum for last 3 years
  • insight: ['trend is higher, last 3 year ratio: 0.17 wrt mean ratio: 0.16']
  • cash average for last 3 years
  • insight: ['trend is stable, last 3 year ratio: 1250000000.0 wrt mean ratio: 1204733333.334']
  • mental_model: We want stability on cash growth
  • roa_cashflow::operating average for last 3 years
  • insight: ['trend is higher, last 3 year ratio: 5.37 wrt mean ratio: 5.015']
  • mental_model: We want stability on increasing return on assets
  • roe_cashflow::operating average for last 3 years
  • insight: ['trend is higher, last 3 year ratio: 7.81 wrt mean ratio: 7.325']
  • mental_model: We want stability on increasing return on equity
  • roce_cashflow::operating average for last 3 years
  • insight: ['trend is higher, last 3 year ratio: 6.36 wrt mean ratio: 5.98']
  • mental_model: We want stability on increasing return on capital employed
  • roic_cashflow::operating average for last 3 years
  • insight: ['trend is stable, last 3 year ratio: 22.25 wrt mean ratio: 21.76']
  • mental_model: We want stability on increasing return on invested capital

Business Trends last 3 years beta

Score 5.0 / 10.0

  • receivables running_sum for last 3 years
  • insight: ['trend is stable, last 3 year ratio: 0.18 wrt mean ratio: 0.188']
  • mental_model: receivables should always grow less with revenues otherwise there might be some payment/collection issues, Watch out
  • inventory running_sum for last 3 years
  • insight: ['trend is stable, last 3 year ratio: 0.24 wrt mean ratio: 0.23']
  • mental_model: inventory should always grow in relation with revenues, Inventory build can be positive depending on the industry cycle, but mostly it could be a CON as working capital is tied up, Be Careful
  • payables running_sum for last 3 years
  • insight: ['trend is lower, last 3 year ratio: 0.09 wrt mean ratio: 0.106']
  • mental_model: the more this is the better, nothing bad about it.
  • cash running_sum for last 3 years
  • insight: ['trend is lower, last 3 year ratio: 0.13 wrt mean ratio: 0.146']
  • mental_model: cash trend should be similar or greater to revenue, if company is heavily reinvesting it might be OK, but do check

Profits Matter beta

💰 Companies needs to have positive profits to reward its shareholders in the long term
Score 10.0 / 10.0

  • positive cashflows profits average for last 3 years
  • insight: ['1560666666.67 is greater than equal to 0']
  • mental_model: We want to see positive cashflows profits for last 3 years, Profits determine Stock prices in the long term

Capital Allocation beta

🧠 Remember: Shareholders only gets rewarded if management does prudent capital allocation decisions
Score 5.0 / 10.0

  • cashToRevenue running_sum for last 3 years
  • insight: ['trend is lower, last 3 year ratio: 0.13 wrt mean ratio: 0.146']
  • cashToEquity running_sum for last 3 years
  • insight: ['trend is stable, last 3 year ratio: 0.06 wrt mean ratio: 0.06']

Business Performance beta

Score 5.0 / 10.0

  • Operating Leverage Cashflow cagr for last 3 years
  • insight: ['Ratio is [2.06] for last 3 year ratio, threshold 0.9, value_1: 15.59, value_2: 7.55']
  • debt cagr for last 5 years
  • insight: ['Ratio is [14.35] for last 5 year ratio, threshold 1, value_1: 79.2, value_2: 5.52']
  • cash cagr for last 5 years
  • insight: ['Ratio is [137.58] for last 5 year ratio, threshold 0.9, value_1: 26.14, value_2: 0.19']
  • debt-equity-cagr cagr for last 5 years
  • insight: ['Ratio is [416.84] for last 5 year ratio, threshold 1, value_1: 79.2, value_2: 0.19']
  • mental_model: We want debt to grow less than equity

Balance Sheet Quality beta

📈 Quality companies can withstand darkest hours, strong balance sheet is the key
Score 7.0 / 10.0

  • debtToCashflow running_sum for last 3 years
  • insight: ['trend is lower, last 3 year ratio: 3.01 wrt mean ratio: 3.22']
  • debtToEquity running_sum for last 3 years
  • insight: ['trend is higher, last 3 year ratio: 0.23 wrt mean ratio: 0.202']
  • leverage average for last 3 years
  • insight: ['3.01 is less than equal to 5']
  • mental_model: We prefer Business which can pay their debts in less than 5 years

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1. Showing BALANCE_SUMMARY report for ALC [show/hide charts] Current Market Price: 92.54 as of 2025-04-18
T means Trillions, B means Billions, M means Millions, all values are in USD(or company filed currency) if not specified as percent/number in the Entry column
Disclaimer: Data is provided as is, please do your due diligence before making any investments, Markets can be very volatile!
Ticker Entry 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017
ALC StockMarketPrice 84.89 77.87 68.11 86.31 65.27 55.96
ALC revenue 9.91B 9.46B 8.72B 8.29B 6.83B 7.51B 7.15B 6.79B
ALC assets 30.35B 29.61B 29.21B 28.00B 27.60B 27.66B 27.06B 0.0
ALC cash 1.68B 1.09B 0.98B 1.57B 1.56B 0.82B 0.23B 0.0
ALC cashflow::operating 2.08B 1.39B 1.22B 1.34B 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
ALC equity 21.55B 20.62B 19.68B 19.26B 18.82B 19.30B 22.64B 0.0
ALC debt 4.64B 4.82B 4.65B 4.08B 4.12B 3.48B 0.05B 0.0
ALC shares 0.50B 0.50B 0.49B 0.49B 0.49B 0.49B 0.49B 0.49B
ALC shares_calc 0.50B 0.49B 0.49B 0.49B 0.49B 0.49B 0.49B 0.49B
ALC inventory 2.27B 2.32B 2.11B 1.90B 1.64B 1.50B 1.44B 0.0
ALC payables 0.77B 0.81B 0.86B 0.90B 0.88B 0.83B 0.66B 0.0
ALC receivables 1.74B 1.77B 1.67B 1.50B 1.36B 1.39B 1.25B 0.0
ALC roa_cfo 7.01% 4.75% 4.35% 4.87% 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
ALC roe_cfo 10.07% 7.05% 6.32% 7.15% 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
ALC roce_cfo 8.16% 5.71% 5.22% 5.86% 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
ALC roic_cfo 27.15% 19.98% 19.62% 24.22% 0.0 0.0 0.0 inf
ALC goodwill 8.95B 8.93B 8.97B 8.90B 8.90B 8.90B 8.90B 0.0
General notes:
Caution:: 0 value in revenue means we do not have data for the year for the ticker
0 value most likely means we had a data issue and could not find the field value in the particular year
StockMarketPrice is the price of the Stock in December first week for the year mentioned(typically)

2. Vertical Data, ratio wrt to shares_calc for ALC [show/hide charts] Current Market Price: 92.54 as of 2025-04-18
T means Trillions, B means Billions, M means Millions, all values are in USD(or company filed currency) if not specified as percent/number in the Entry column
Disclaimer: Data is provided as is, please do your due diligence before making any investments, Markets can be very volatile!
Ticker Entry 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017
ALC StockMarketPrice
ALC revenue 19.92 19.23 17.79 16.87 13.97 15.35 14.66 13.92
ALC assets 60.99 60.22 59.60 56.97 56.44 56.54 55.45 0.0
ALC cash 3.37 2.22 2.00 3.20 3.18 1.68 0.47 0.0
ALC cashflow::operating 4.17 2.82 2.48 2.74 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
ALC equity 43.32 41.94 40.15 39.18 38.49 39.47 46.39 0.0
ALC debt 9.33 9.80 9.48 8.30 8.42 7.11 0.10 0.0
ALC shares 1.00 1.01 1.01 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00
ALC shares_calc 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00
ALC inventory 4.56 4.72 4.30 3.86 3.36 3.08 2.95 0.0
ALC payables 1.55 1.65 1.76 1.84 1.79 1.70 1.36 0.0
ALC receivables 3.49 3.60 3.41 3.04 2.78 2.84 2.57 0.0
ALC goodwill 17.98 18.15 18.30 18.12 18.21 18.21 18.24 0.0
General notes:
Caution:: 0 value in revenue means we do not have data for the year for the ticker
0 value most likely means we had a data issue and could not find the field value in the particular year
StockMarketPrice is the price of the Stock in December first week for the year mentioned(typically)

3. Vertical Data, ratio wrt to revenue for ALC [show/hide charts] Current Market Price: 92.54 as of 2025-04-18
T means Trillions, B means Billions, M means Millions, all values are in USD(or company filed currency) if not specified as percent/number in the Entry column
Disclaimer: Data is provided as is, please do your due diligence before making any investments, Markets can be very volatile!
Ticker Entry 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017
ALC StockMarketPrice
ALC revenue 100.00% 100.00% 100.00% 100.00% 100.00% 100.00% 100.00% 100.00%
ALC assets 306.20% 313.21% 335.08% 337.70% 403.92% 368.34% 378.33% 0.0
ALC cash 16.91% 11.57% 11.24% 19.00% 22.79% 10.95% 3.17% 0.0
ALC cashflow::operating 20.96% 14.68% 13.96% 16.22% 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
ALC equity 217.47% 218.13% 225.73% 232.25% 275.46% 257.10% 316.50% 0.0
ALC debt 46.85% 50.99% 53.32% 49.21% 60.27% 46.34% 0.66% 0.0
ALC shares 5.01% 5.25% 5.67% 5.95% 7.16% 6.50% 6.82% 7.18%
ALC shares_calc 5.02% 5.20% 5.62% 5.93% 7.16% 6.51% 6.82% 7.18%
ALC inventory 22.88% 24.56% 24.19% 22.90% 24.06% 20.05% 20.13% 0.0
ALC payables 7.80% 8.58% 9.88% 10.89% 12.82% 11.09% 9.27% 0.0
ALC receivables 17.52% 18.72% 19.19% 18.04% 19.92% 18.51% 17.52% 0.0
ALC goodwill 90.26% 94.41% 102.90% 107.41% 130.32% 118.61% 124.41% 0.0
General notes:
Caution:: 0 value in revenue means we do not have data for the year for the ticker
0 value most likely means we had a data issue and could not find the field value in the particular year
StockMarketPrice is the price of the Stock in December first week for the year mentioned(typically)

4. Vertical Data, ratio wrt to assets for ALC [show/hide charts] Current Market Price: 92.54 as of 2025-04-18
T means Trillions, B means Billions, M means Millions, all values are in USD(or company filed currency) if not specified as percent/number in the Entry column
Disclaimer: Data is provided as is, please do your due diligence before making any investments, Markets can be very volatile!
Ticker Entry 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018
ALC StockMarketPrice
ALC revenue 32.66% 31.93% 29.84% 29.61% 24.76% 27.15% 26.43%
ALC assets 100.00% 100.00% 100.00% 100.00% 100.00% 100.00% 100.00%
ALC cash 5.52% 3.69% 3.36% 5.63% 5.64% 2.97% 0.84%
ALC cashflow::operating 6.84% 4.69% 4.17% 4.80% 0.0 0.0 0.0
ALC equity 71.02% 69.64% 67.37% 68.77% 68.20% 69.80% 83.66%
ALC debt 15.30% 16.28% 15.91% 14.57% 14.92% 12.58% 0.17%
ALC shares 1.64% 1.67% 1.69% 1.76% 1.77% 1.76% 1.80%
ALC shares_calc 1.64% 1.66% 1.68% 1.76% 1.77% 1.77% 1.80%
ALC inventory 7.47% 7.84% 7.22% 6.78% 5.96% 5.44% 5.32%
ALC payables 2.55% 2.74% 2.95% 3.23% 3.17% 3.01% 2.45%
ALC receivables 5.72% 5.98% 5.73% 5.34% 4.93% 5.03% 4.63%
ALC goodwill 29.48% 30.14% 30.71% 31.80% 32.26% 32.20% 32.88%
General notes:
Caution:: 0 value in revenue means we do not have data for the year for the ticker
0 value most likely means we had a data issue and could not find the field value in the particular year
StockMarketPrice is the price of the Stock in December first week for the year mentioned(typically)


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