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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 7.0 / 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
  • interestRate average for last 3 years
  • insight: ['0.04 is less than equal to 0.05']
  • mental_model: We prefer lower interest rate than the current prevailing interest rates, we want long term debt profile too

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

Business Trends last 3 years beta

Score 0.0 / 10.0

  • 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 8.0 / 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
  • interestRate average for last 3 years
  • insight: ['0.04 is less than equal to 0.05']
  • mental_model: We prefer lower interest rate than the current prevailing interest rates, we want long term debt profile too

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1. Showing SPECIAL_REPORT 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 cash 1.68B 1.09B 0.98B 1.57B 1.56B 0.82B 0.23B 0.0
ALC ppnenet 4.39B 4.37B 4.03B 3.71B 3.42B 3.11B 2.80B 0.0
ALC owner_earnings 1.93B 1.24B 1.08B 1.21B 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
ALC cashflow::operating 2.08B 1.39B 1.22B 1.34B 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
ALC grossincome 5.51B 5.25B 4.75B 4.65B 2.94B 3.66B 3.19B 3.20B
ALC marketcap 42.24B 38.30B 33.38B 42.42B 31.92B 27.37B 0.0 0.0
ALC ev 45.21B 42.02B 37.05B 44.93B 34.48B 30.03B 0.0 0.0
ALC ebitda 3.87B 3.49B 2.89B 3.02B -0.48B -0.19B 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 interestRate 0.04 0.04 0.03 0.03 0.03 0.03 0.51 inf
ALC owner_earningsToInterest 10.04 6.58 8.04 10.06 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
ALC cashflow::operatingToInterest 10.82 7.34 9.08 11.21 0.0 0.0 0.0 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 depreciation 1.23B 1.23B 1.11B 1.22B 0.00B 0.00B 0.0 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 cash 3.37 2.22 2.00 3.20 3.18 1.68 0.47 0.0
ALC ppnenet 8.82 8.88 8.21 7.55 7.00 6.36 5.74 0.0
ALC owner_earnings 3.87 2.53 2.20 2.46 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
ALC cashflow::operating 4.17 2.82 2.48 2.74 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
ALC grossincome 11.08 10.67 9.69 9.46 6.01 7.49 6.54 6.57
ALC marketcap 84.89 77.87 68.11 86.31 65.27 55.96 0.0 0.0
ALC ev 90.85 85.45 75.59 91.41 70.51 61.39 0.0 0.0
ALC ebitda 7.77 7.10 5.91 6.14 -0.99 -0.38 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 depreciation 2.46 2.49 2.27 2.48 0.0 0.0 0.0 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 cash 16.91% 11.57% 11.24% 19.00% 22.79% 10.95% 3.17% 0.0
ALC ppnenet 44.28% 46.21% 46.17% 44.76% 50.12% 41.46% 39.14% 0.0
ALC owner_earnings 19.44% 13.16% 12.36% 14.56% 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
ALC cashflow::operating 20.96% 14.68% 13.96% 16.22% 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
ALC grossincome 55.61% 55.49% 54.47% 56.11% 43.03% 48.77% 44.62% 47.17%
ALC marketcap 426.18% 405.04% 382.93% 511.65% 467.11% 364.53% 0.0 0.0
ALC ev 456.11% 444.46% 425.01% 541.87% 504.59% 399.92% 0.0 0.0
ALC ebitda 39.00% 36.92% 33.20% 36.43% -7.05% -2.49% 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 depreciation 12.37% 12.97% 12.75% 14.71% 0.0 0.0 0.0 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 ppnenet 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 225.81% 216.41% 216.57% 223.42% 199.50% 241.18% 255.46%
ALC cash 38.19% 25.04% 24.35% 42.44% 45.46% 26.41% 8.11%
ALC ppnenet 100.00% 100.00% 100.00% 100.00% 100.00% 100.00% 100.00%
ALC owner_earnings 43.91% 28.47% 26.76% 32.52% 0.0 0.0 0.0
ALC cashflow::operating 47.32% 31.77% 30.24% 36.24% 0.0 0.0 0.0
ALC grossincome 125.59% 120.10% 117.96% 125.36% 85.84% 117.64% 114.00%
ALC marketcap 962.37% 876.55% 829.31% 1143.12% 931.90% 879.18% 0.0
ALC ev 1029.97% 961.86% 920.44% 1210.62% 1006.67% 964.53% 0.0
ALC ebitda 88.06% 79.90% 71.90% 81.38% -14.07% -6.01% 0.0
ALC equity 491.07% 472.05% 488.87% 518.89% 549.55% 620.08% 808.54%
ALC debt 105.79% 110.35% 115.48% 109.94% 120.23% 111.76% 1.68%
ALC shares 11.32% 11.35% 12.27% 13.28% 14.28% 15.68% 17.43%
ALC shares_calc 11.34% 11.26% 12.18% 13.24% 14.28% 15.71% 17.43%
ALC depreciation 27.93% 28.06% 27.60% 32.88% 0.0 0.0 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)


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