The Label · The Season, Not the Day
This name holds its markup label.
Algoma Steel Group Inc holds its Markup at $3.83. Consolidating, no directional conviction, held for 13 days.
As held on the ledger · 2025-12-31
| Phase | Markup |
| Quantitative state | Consolidating, no directional conviction, held for 13 days |
| Price at the screen | $3.83 |
| Valuation | N/A trailing · -13.43 forward price to earnings |
| Values screen | FAIL · score 70.0 |
| Beta | 1.64 |
The Workings
Five Screens, Shown in Full
Does not pass. Debt ratio
| Test | Figure | Limit | What it means | Status |
|---|
| Business activity |
Permissible |
Core business clean |
Its core business isn't built on prohibited lines: no gambling, alcohol, tobacco, weapons, or interest-based lending. |
Pass |
| Debt load |
40.74% |
Below 33% |
Interest-bearing debt is 40.7% of its assets, above the one-third ceiling the screen allows. |
Fail |
| Interest-bearing cash |
0.00% |
Below 33% |
Cash held in interest-bearing accounts and securities is 0.0% of assets, under the one-third limit. |
Pass |
| Receivables |
11.39% |
Below 49% |
Money owed to the company is 11.4% of assets, under the 49% limit. |
Pass |
| Revenue purity |
0.32% |
Below 5% |
Only 0.3% of revenue comes from non-compliant sources, under the 5% line. |
Pass |
Five checks adapted from AAOIFI screening standards: business activity plus four balance-sheet ratios. All five must pass for ethical clearance. Every figure is arithmetic on public accounts, not judgement.
The Business, in Plain Words
The fundamentals · plain-English read
| Forward P/E | -13.4x |
| EPS, trailing | -7.25 |
| EPS, forward | -0.29 |
| Revenue growth | -42.6%revenue is shrinking |
| Profit margin | -60.0%currently unprofitable |
| Return on equity | -122.4%not currently earning a positive return on equity |
| FCF yield | -66.97% |
| Debt to equity | 2.72heavy leverage: higher risk if revenue softens |
| Current ratio | 2.45comfortably covers its short-term bills |
| Beta | 1.64much more volatile than the market |
| Short interest, float | 0.02% |
| 52-week range | 3.02 - 7.19 |
| Moat | NONE |
| Market cap | $404M |
| Employees | 2,400 |
The risks · The things to watch: it's a small-cap, so the share price can swing harder than the market; it already moves more than the market on an average day; its business and earnings are exposed to Canada and to currency swings; it carries a real debt load, which raises the stakes if revenue slips.
Plain-English interpretation of our own screen data. Analysis, not advice.
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