CMTG · Real estate(real estate) · 9 years of annual accounts filed with the SEC · latest fiscal year ended 2025-12-31
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Claros Mortgage Trust, Inc. reported revenue of $187.8 million in fiscal 2025. Of the $759.8 million its operations generated over 9 years, 95.5% went to dividends. On the accounting screens, it passes 3 of 7 Piotroski tests; none of the six cross-checks between its statements fires.
Revenue, fiscal 2025187.8M
Operating margin—gross margin —
Return on invested capital—
Free cash flow—
Net debt ÷ EBITDA—net debt 3.0B
Piotroski F-score3/7tests of improvement passed
Is it growing?
Revenue and the operating income it turns into. Growth that does not reach operating income is growth bought with margin.
RevenueOperating income
0100.0M200.0M300.0M400.0M
2018
2019Revenue 249.6M
2020Revenue 273.7M
2021
2021Revenue 262.7M
2022Revenue 287.2M
2023Revenue 306.6M
2024Revenue 248.4M
2025Revenue 187.8M
201820192020202120212022202320242025
Compound growth a year
3 yrs
5 yrs
8 yrs
Revenue
-13.2%
—
—
Shares
+0.2%
—
—
Falling shares are buybacks: each remaining share owns more of the company.
Does it earn more than its capital costs?
Margins say how much of each sale is kept; return on invested capital says how much the business earns on the money it needs to operate. Growth only creates value when that return is above the cost of the capital.
GrossOperatingNetFree cash flow
-300.0%-200.0%-100.0%0.0%100.0%
2018
2019Net 65.4%
2020Net 71.1%
2021
2021Net 61.4%
2022Net 39.1%
2023Net 2.0%
2024Net -89.1%
2025Net -260.4%
201820192020202120212022202320242025
Return on invested capital
Economic profit
Needs a cost of capital, which comes from the valuation below.
Return on equity
-31.9%
Return on assets
-10.4%
Asset turnover
0.04×
Overheads (SG&A)
10.6% of revenue
Is the profit cash, and where does the cash go?
Net income is an accounting opinion; free cash flow is what was left in the bank after investing. Stock-based pay does not leave the bank — shareholders pay it through dilution — so it is shown taken off as well.
Net incomeFree cash flowAfter stock-based pay
-600.0M-400.0M-200.0M0200.0M
2018
2019Net income 163.2M
2020Net income 194.6M
2021
2021Net income 161.2M
2022Net income 112.2M
2023Net income 6.0M
2024Net income -221.3M
2025Net income -489.1M
201820192020202120212022202320242025
Where 9 years of operating cash went, 2018–2025
759.8M generated by the business. Each band is its share of that total.
Reinvested in the business 0%0
Acquisitions 0%0
Dividends 96%725.9M
Share buybacks 3%25.0M
Kept, or used to pay down debt 1%9.0M
Over the same years it paid 96.9M in stock. The buybacks did not even cover what was handed out in stock.
Per share
Earnings per shareFree cash flow per shareDividend per share
$-4.00$-2.00$0.00$2.00
2018
2019Earnings per share $1.46
2020Earnings per share $1.46
2021
2021Earnings per share $1.20Dividend per share $1.52
2022Earnings per share $0.81Dividend per share $1.49
2023Earnings per share $0.04Dividend per share $1.39
2024Earnings per share $-1.59Dividend per share $0.87
2025Earnings per share $-3.49Dividend per share $0.00
201820192020202120212022202320242025
Shares outstanding
Diluted shares
110.0M120.0M130.0M140.0M150.0M
2018
2019Diluted shares 111.5M
2020Diluted shares 133.0M
2021
2021Diluted shares 134.5M
2022Diluted shares 139.3M
2023Diluted shares 138.6M
2024Diluted shares 139.2M
2025Diluted shares 140.1M
201820192020202120212022202320242025
How strong is the balance sheet?
Debt is not bad in itself; debt the business cannot service in a bad year is. Net debt is debt minus cash, and below zero the company holds more cash than it owes.
Net debt
02.0B4.0B6.0B
2018
2019
2020
2021
2021Net debt 4.4B
2022Net debt 5.4B
2023Net debt 5.5B
2024Net debt 4.8B
2025Net debt 3.0B
201820192020202120212022202320242025
Net debt ÷ EBITDA
—
Interest coverage
— operating income ÷ interest
Current ratio
— current assets ÷ current liabilities
Cash conversion cycle
—
Three classic screens of the accounts
Each asks a different question of the same statements — is it improving, does it look like a company heading for distress, do the accounts resemble ones that were manipulated. None is a verdict; each shows what moves it.
Piotroski F-score
Is the business improving? Nine yes-or-no tests, this year against last.
3of 7 tests passed
✕ProfitableReturn on assets above zerofailed
✕Cash from operationsOperating cash flow above zerofailed
✕Profitability improvedReturn on assets higher than a year beforefailed
✓Profit backed by cashOperating cash flow above net income (low accruals)passed
✓Less long-term debtLong-term debt as a share of assets fellpassed
–More liquidCurrent ratio higher than a year before — not reportedno data
✕No new sharesShare count did not growfailed
–Better gross marginGross margin higher than a year before — not reportedno data
✓Sells more per assetAsset turnover higher than a year beforepassed
Where it misleads: it measures change, not level. An excellent business that stood still for a year scores low; a poor one recovering from a disaster scores high.
Altman Z''-score
Does the balance sheet look like those of companies that went bankrupt?
The accounts lack a line it needs (retained earnings, current assets or liabilities).
Beneish M-score
Do the accounts resemble those of companies that manipulated their earnings?
The accounts lack too many of the lines it needs.
Where the statements disagree
Cross-checks between the income statement, the balance sheet and the cash flow for the latest year, each with the benign reading and the worrying one.
None of the six cross-checks fires for the latest year: receivables and inventory move with revenue, profit turns into cash, investment keeps up with depreciation, the tax rate is ordinary and debt is moderate.
What is it worth, under which assumptions?
A company is worth the cash it will generate, brought back to today. This model projects revenue with growth that fades over the years, applies a free cash flow margin, and discounts the result at the cost of capital. Every assumption says where it came from, and all of them can be changed.
The SEC accounts lack the lines needed for revenue, free cash flow or the share count, so there is no DCF for this company.
What it has filed lately
The last twelve months at the SEC, most important first: annual and quarterly reports, events, large holders and insiders.
Every Form 4 filed in the last twelve months, read line by line: 6 filings by 6 people. Open-market purchases and sales are counted apart from awards, option exercises and shares withheld for taxes.
Bought on the open market$393,9713 purchase(s) by 2 insider(s)
Sold on the open market—none in the period
Under pre-arranged plans—of the sales followed a 10b5-1 plan set months earlier
A Form 4 says what happened, when, how many shares and at what price. It does not say why: a sale can be diversification, a tax bill or a plan fixed months earlier, and an award is pay, not a purchase. Nothing here is a reason to buy or sell anything.
Companies like this one
Same SEC industry (real estate) first, then the rest of real estate.
Accounts from the company's own SEC filings; lines some companies do not report are shown as a dash rather than estimated. The risk-free rate is the 10-year US Treasury yield. A DCF is a way of making assumptions explicit, not a forecast: it states what the company would be worth if the assumptions held. The scores are screens that point where to look, not verdicts. Nothing here is a recommendation to buy or sell.
