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MRNFF OTC

Meren Energy Inc.
1W: -3.3% 1M: -11.0% 3M: +4.3% YTD: +7.3%
$1.46
-0.03 (-1.69%)
 
Weekly Expected Move ±3.9%
$1 $1 $1 $2 $2
OTC · Energy · Oil & Gas Exploration & Production · Tech Score Sell · Power 39 · $983.7M mcap · 433M float · 0.060% daily turnover · Short 34% of daily vol

Financial Rating

Composite financial health rating (A+ to F) based on discounted cash flow valuation, return on equity, return on assets, debt-to-equity leverage, and relative P/E and P/B multiples.

C
Oct 02, 2026
DCF
3
ROE
1
ROA
1
D/E
1
P/E
1
P/B
3
The Financial Rating evaluates six fundamental factors — discounted cash flow (DCF) valuation, return on equity (ROE), return on assets (ROA), debt-to-equity leverage (D/E), and relative price-to-earnings (P/E) and price-to-book (P/B) multiples — each scored 1–5. MRNFF receives an overall rating of C. Areas of concern: ROE (1/5), ROA (1/5), D/E (1/5), P/E (1/5).
Rating Change History
DateFromTo
2026-10-01 C+ C
2026-09-08 C C+
2026-07-01 C+ C
2026-05-11 C C+
2026-02-26 B C
2026-02-20 B- B
2026-02-18 B B-
2026-02-17 B+ B
2026-01-26 B B+
2026-01-26 None ADDED

InsiderStreet Scorecard

Proprietary multi-factor scorecard rating companies across seven fundamental dimensions — profitability, balance sheet strength, earnings quality, growth, value, momentum, and safety — each scored 0–100.

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 33 Grade C
Profitability
45
Balance Sheet
60
Earnings Quality
53
Growth
—
Value
48
Momentum
—
Safety
15
Cash Flow
40
The InsiderStreet Scorecard rates companies across eight dimensions: Profitability (margins, ROA, ROE), Balance Sheet (leverage, liquidity, coverage), Earnings Quality (accruals, cash conversion), Growth (revenue and earnings trajectory), Value (P/E, P/B, earnings yield, Graham criteria), Momentum (revenue and earnings acceleration), Safety (Altman Z-Score risk adjustment), and Cash Flow (operating cash flow quality, FCF conversion, cash coverage). The overall score blends 35% quality, 35% value, and 30% momentum, with a penalty for distress-zone Altman scores. MRNFF scores highest in Balance Sheet (60/100) and lowest in Safety (15/100). A grade of C represents mixed fundamentals — strengths in some areas offset by weaknesses.

Risk & Quality Signals

Academic financial models used by institutional investors to assess bankruptcy risk, earnings manipulation, financial strength, and credit quality.

Altman Z-Score
0.13
Distress Zone
Piotroski F-Score
3/9
✗ ✓ ✗ ✓ ✗ ✗ ✓ ✗ ✗
Beneish M-Score
—
—
Ohlson O-Score
-5.77
Bankruptcy prob: 0.3%
Low Risk
Credit Rating
BB+
Score: 45.5/100
Earnings Quality
—
OCF/NI: -2.80x
Accruals: -2.3%
The Altman Z-Score (1968) combines five ratios — working capital, retained earnings, EBIT, market value of equity, and sales, all relative to total assets or liabilities — into a single bankruptcy predictor. MRNFF scores 0.13, placing it in the Distress Zone (safe > 2.99, distress < 1.81). Historically, companies in this range face elevated bankruptcy risk. The Piotroski F-Score (2000) is a 9-point binary checklist — four profitability tests (positive ROA, positive cash flow, improving ROA, cash flow exceeding net income), three leverage tests (declining debt ratio, improving current ratio, no share dilution), and two efficiency tests (improving gross margin, improving asset turnover). Each pass scores 1 point. MRNFF scores 3/9, suggesting weak financial fundamentals — the company fails the majority of these accounting tests. The Ohlson O-Score (1980) is a 9-variable logistic regression that estimates bankruptcy probability using firm size, leverage, working capital, current ratio, profitability (ROA), cash flow coverage, negative equity flag, consecutive losses flag, and earnings trajectory. The raw score is converted to a probability via logistic transformation. MRNFF's implied 0.3% bankruptcy probability is well within safe territory. Our Credit Rating model scores companies on five weighted components — solvency (30%), earning power (25%), leverage (20%), liquidity (15%), and cash flow quality (10%) — then blends the absolute score with sector and industry peer rankings. For companies with large buyback programs, equity is adjusted by adding back cumulative 5-year repurchases (capped at 80% of FCF generated) to avoid penalizing shareholder-friendly capital allocation. MRNFF receives an estimated rating of BB+ (score: 45.5/100).

Valuation

Key valuation multiples comparing the stock's market price to its earnings, revenue, book value, and cash flows. Lower multiples may indicate relative undervaluation versus peers.

P/E
-9.91x
PEG
-0.05x
P/S
1.38x
P/B
1.41x
P/FCF
41.85x
P/OCF
30.00x
EV/EBITDA
6.46x
EV/Revenue
3.79x
EV/EBIT
14.10x
EV/FCF
51.40x
Earnings Yield
-1.19%
FCF Yield
2.39%
Shareholder Yield
5.16%
Graham Number
—
Equity-based multiples (P/E, P/B, P/FCF) compare the stock price to per-share fundamentals and are affected by capital structure. Enterprise value multiples (EV/EBITDA, EV/Revenue, EV/FCF) strip out debt and cash, making them more useful for cross-company comparisons regardless of how companies are financed. The Graham Number — √(22.5 × EPS × Book Value) — is Benjamin Graham's formula for the maximum price a defensive investor should pay. MRNFF currently has negative earnings — the P/E ratio is not meaningful.

DuPont Decomposition (5-Factor)

The 5-factor DuPont framework breaks Return on Equity into its component drivers — tax efficiency, interest burden, operating profitability, asset utilization, and financial leverage — to reveal what truly drives shareholder returns.

Tax Burden
-0.177
NI / EBT
×
Interest Burden
0.770
EBT / EBIT
×
EBIT Margin
0.268
EBIT / Rev
×
Asset Turnover
0.167
Rev / Assets
×
Equity Multiplier
2.600
Assets / Equity
=
ROE
-1.6%
The 5-factor DuPont identity decomposes ROE as: Tax Burden × Interest Burden × EBIT Margin × Asset Turnover × Equity Multiplier = ROE. This reveals whether returns are driven by operating performance, financial leverage, or tax efficiency — three very different sources of profitability. MRNFF's ROE of -1.6% is driven by a balanced combination of operating margin, asset efficiency, and leverage. A tax burden ratio of -0.18 suggests the company retains less than 60% of pre-tax earnings after taxes.

Graham-Dodd Adjusted Valuation

Our adaptation of Graham's growth formula (Fair P/E = 8.5 + 2g) from The Intelligent Investor. The classic version relies on analyst growth projections, which can be unreliable. This adjusted model substitutes the company's realized 3-year EPS CAGR — a backward-looking, verifiable measure of actual earnings power — grounding the valuation in demonstrated performance rather than forecasts.

Two adjustments we make, and why. Growth is capped at 15%. Graham defined g as expected growth over the next seven to ten years, not last year's rate. Across US companies since 1994 the median realized 7-year EPS growth is 5–8% regardless of how fast a company grew beforehand, and of 4,457 company-quarters that grew faster than 200%, none sustained it. Uncapped, the formula assigned fair multiples in the hundreds to companies that had never held that rate — and scored worse than simply reading the P/E. Capped, it carries real information. The verdict has three states, not two. Tested over 377,249 stock-months, this ratio only separates outcomes at its extremes: below 0.25 beat the universe by 1.3 points a year, above 3.0 lagged by 2.7, and everything in between sat inside a one-point band. Rather than call two-thirds of the market "undervalued" on a threshold of 1.0, we say Neutral where the model cannot tell — which is most of the time.

Adj. Growth Rate
0.00%
Fair P/E
8.50x
Intrinsic Value
—
Price/Value
—
Margin of Safety
—
Premium
—

Profitability Trends

Historical profitability ratios tracking how efficiently the company converts revenue into returns for shareholders over time.

Leverage & Solvency Trends

Debt and liquidity metrics showing the company's financial leverage and ability to meet short-term and long-term obligations.

Efficiency & Working Capital Trends

Operating efficiency metrics measuring how quickly the company converts inventory to sales, collects receivables, and manages its cash conversion cycle.

Growth Trends (YoY %)

Year-over-year growth rates for key financial metrics, showing the trajectory of revenue, earnings, and cash flow generation.

Earnings Stability

R-squared of linear regression measuring how predictably revenue, earnings, and margins follow a trend over the trailing 5 years. 1.0 = perfectly predictable; lower values indicate erratic or cyclical behavior.

Monte Carlo Price Simulation

Geometric Brownian Motion with 1,000 antithetic paths over 1 year, seeded from 189 days of historical volatility. Percentile bands show the range of statistically plausible outcomes — this is a statistical model, not a forecast.

Current Price
$1.46
Median 1Y
$1.49
5th Pctile
$0.79
95th Pctile
$2.83
Ann. Volatility
38.3%
25th–75th percentile 5th–95th percentile Median path Historical
All Ratios & Metrics

Complete fundamental data with up to 20 periods of history, sparkline trends, and current values across 13 categories and 130+ financial metrics.

Profitability
Metric Trend Q1'26 Q2'26 Current
ROE -6.0% -1.6% -1.59%
ROA -2.1% -0.6% -0.61%
ROIC 2.4% -2.0% -1.99%
ROCE 0.4% 5.2% 5.22%
Gross Margin 31.8% 41.6% 41.64%
Operating Margin 24.6% 39.1% 39.15%
Net Margin -36.9% 16.2% 16.17%
EBITDA Margin 49.5% 64.0% 63.96%
FCF Margin -31.8% 7.4% 7.36%
OCF Margin -24.0% 10.3% 10.27%
ROIC Economic snapshot only -1.84%
Cash ROA snapshot only 1.72%
Cash ROIC snapshot only 3.42%
CROIC snapshot only 2.45%
NOPAT Margin snapshot only -5.97%
Pretax Margin snapshot only 20.68%
R&D / Revenue snapshot only 0.00%
SGA / Revenue snapshot only 4.24%
SBC / Revenue snapshot only 1.11%
Valuation
Metric Trend Q1'26 Q2'26 Current
P/E Ratio -28.03 -84.14 -9.914
P/S Ratio 10.35 3.08 1.375
P/B Ratio 1.69 1.34 1.408
P/FCF -32.59 41.85 41.848
P/OCF — 30.00 29.999
EV/EBITDA 24.64 6.46 6.464
EV/Revenue 12.20 3.79 3.785
EV/EBIT 196.46 14.10 14.101
EV/FCF -38.43 51.40 51.405
Earnings Yield -3.6% -1.2% -1.19%
FCF Yield -3.1% 2.4% 2.39%
Price/Tangible Book snapshot only 1.338
EV/OCF snapshot only 36.850
EV/Gross Profit snapshot only 9.975
Acquirers Multiple snapshot only 11.230
Shareholder Yield snapshot only 5.16%
Leverage & Solvency
Metric Trend Q1'26 Q2'26 Current
Current Ratio 1.26 1.14 1.137
Quick Ratio 0.95 0.75 0.750
Debt/Equity 0.53 0.42 0.416
Net Debt/Equity 0.30 0.31 0.306
Debt/Assets 0.19 0.16 0.160
Debt/EBITDA 6.60 1.63 1.635
Net Debt/EBITDA 3.75 1.20 1.202
Interest Coverage 0.70 4.31 4.308
Equity Multiplier 2.82 2.60 2.600
Cash Ratio snapshot only 0.298
Debt Service Coverage snapshot only 9.398
Cash to Debt snapshot only 0.265
FCF to Debt snapshot only 0.077
Defensive Interval snapshot only 5484.3 days
Efficiency & Turnover
Metric Trend Q1'26 Q2'26 Current
Asset Turnover 0.06 0.17 0.167
Inventory Turnover 0.79 1.88 1.882
Receivables Turnover 5.37 3.80 3.801
Payables Turnover — 2.06 2.055
DSO 68 96 96.0 days
DIO 462 194 193.9 days
DPO 0 178 177.6 days
Cash Conversion Cycle 530 112 112.3 days
Fixed Asset Turnover snapshot only 0.228
Operating Cycle snapshot only 289.9 days
Cash Velocity snapshot only 3.943
Capital Intensity snapshot only 5.988
Growth Quality
Metric Trend Q1'26 Q2'26 Current
Revenue Stability — — —
Earnings Stability — — —
Margin Stability — — —
Rev. Growth Consistency 0.00 0.00 0.000
Earn. Growth Consistency 0.00 0.00 0.000
FCF Positive Streak 0 0 0
Earnings Persistence — — —
Earnings Smoothness — — —
ROE Trend — — —
Gross Margin Trend — — —
FCF Margin Trend — — —
Sustainable Growth Rate — — —
Internal Growth Rate — — —
Cash Flow Quality
Metric Trend Q1'26 Q2'26 Current
OCF/Net Income 0.65 -2.80 -2.805
FCF/OCF 1.32 0.72 0.717
FCF/Net Income snapshot only -2.011
OCF/EBITDA snapshot only 0.175
CapEx/Revenue 7.8% 2.9% 2.91%
CapEx/Depreciation snapshot only 0.092
Accruals Ratio -0.01 -0.02 -0.023
Sloan Accruals snapshot only -0.075
Cash Flow Adequacy snapshot only 0.546
Dividends & Buybacks
Metric Trend Q1'26 Q2'26 Current
Dividend Yield 0.0% 5.2% 9.84%
Dividend/Share $0.00 $0.07 $0.14
Payout Ratio — — —
FCF Payout Ratio — 2.2% 2.16%
Total Payout Ratio — — —
Div. Increase Streak — 0 0
Chowder Number — — —
Buyback Yield 0.0% 0.0% 0.00%
Net Buyback Yield 0.0% 0.0% 0.00%
Total Shareholder Return 0.0% 5.2% 5.16%
DuPont Factors
Metric Trend Q1'26 Q2'26 Current
Tax Burden (NI/EBT) 13.61 -0.18 -0.177
Interest Burden (EBT/EBIT) -0.44 0.77 0.770
EBIT Margin 0.06 0.27 0.268
Asset Turnover 0.06 0.17 0.167
Equity Multiplier 2.82 2.60 2.600
Per Share
Metric Trend Q1'26 Q2'26 Current
EPS (Diluted TTM) $-0.06 $-0.02 $-0.02
Book Value/Share $1.03 $1.02 $1.04
Tangible Book/Share $1.03 $1.02 $1.02
Revenue/Share $0.17 $0.44 $1.07
FCF/Share $-0.05 $0.03 $0.33
OCF/Share $-0.04 $0.05 $0.36
Cash/Share $0.24 $0.11 $0.11
EBITDA/Share $0.08 $0.26 $0.26
Debt/Share $0.55 $0.43 $0.43
Net Debt/Share $0.31 $0.31 $0.31
Academic Models
Metric Trend Q1'26 Q2'26 Current
Altman Z-Score — — 0.133
Altman Z-Prime snapshot only -0.339
Piotroski F-Score 2 3 3
Beneish M-Score — — —
Ohlson O-Score snapshot only -5.767
ROIC (Greenblatt) snapshot only 5.96%
Net-Net WC snapshot only $-1.21
EVA snapshot only $-110290078.89
Credit
Metric Trend Q1'26 Q2'26 Current
Credit Rating snapshot only BB+
Credit Score 25.75 45.45 45.450
Credit Grade snapshot only 11
Implied Spread (bps) snapshot only 400.000

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