The Label · The Season, Not the Day
This name holds its distribution label.
CBL International Ltd holds its Distribution at $0.36. The statistical read favours the sellers, held for 17 days.
As held on the ledger · 2025-12-31
| Phase | Distribution · caution |
| Quantitative state | The statistical read favours the sellers, held for 17 days |
| Price at the screen | $0.36 |
| Valuation | N/A trailing · N/A forward price to earnings |
| Values screen | FAIL · score 70.0 |
| Beta | -1.95 |
The Workings
Five Screens, Shown in Full
Does not pass. Accounts receivable
| 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 |
2.76% |
Below 33% |
Interest-bearing debt is just 2.8% of its assets, well under the one-third ceiling: it does not run on borrowed money. |
Pass |
| 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 |
68.04% |
Below 49% |
Money owed to the company is 68.0% of assets, above the 49% limit. |
Fail |
| Revenue purity |
0.01% |
Below 5% |
Only 0.0% 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
| EPS, trailing | -1.40 |
| Revenue growth | -13.3%revenue is shrinking |
| Profit margin | -0.6%currently unprofitable |
| Return on equity | -14.0%not currently earning a positive return on equity |
| FCF yield | 97.75% |
| Debt to equity | 0.11minimal debt: a conservative balance sheet |
| Current ratio | 1.35adequate liquidity, worth monitoring |
| Beta | -1.95barely tracks the market's swings |
| Short interest, float | 0.04% |
| 52-week range | 0.27 - 0.98 |
| Moat | NONE |
| Market cap | $5M |
| Employees | 37 |
The risks · The things to watch: it's a small-cap, so the share price can swing harder than the market; its business and earnings are exposed to Malaysia and to currency swings.
Plain-English interpretation of our own screen data. Analysis, not advice.
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