patterns / partner_squeeze
credit thesisa ≥25% partner ceased within ~2.5 years and cash fell ≥30% — the company likely bought the partner out of its own pocket; fundamentally sound, drained by the exit — refinance the buyout
The company most likely bought a partner out of its own pocket — the ownership history shows the exit, the balance sheet shows the drain. Fundamentally sound, temporarily bloodless.
Refinance the buyout: replace the cash the exit consumed with structured debt. The remaining owner just proved they want the business.
The badge is recomputed nightly across the whole index, and re-evaluated live the moment a company files — so a match is always a statement about the current register, not a stale list. Like every signal on the radar: a prompt to look closer, never a verdict.