Forensic Analysis · Professional & Commercial Services · as of Aug 11, 2026

Abm Industries Inc /De/ (ABM)

A forensic read on Abm Industries Inc /De/ built from its complete SEC filings — financial-health screens, earnings quality, red flags and a price-aware rating. Reproducible math, not opinion.

C · Mixed — selective

Forensic grade

Safe

Financial health

2.9

Distress distance

Clean

Earnings quality

Forensic signals

18.1

P / E (ttm)

9.1%

ROE

$2.8B

Market cap

2.39%

Dividend yield

4.6%

Revenue growth

This free snapshot doesn't read filing or proxy text, so the auditor-quality and governance checks that can lower a grade were not evaluated (red flags, auditor quality, say on pay, board independence). Those checks only ever lower a grade, so the full analysis can land below the grade above but never above it — treat it as the most favourable reading, not the settled one.

Abm Industries Inc /De/ earns a C (Mixed — selective) forensic quality grade, and its balance-sheet distress test reads 2.9, placing it in the Safe zone. 3 forensic signals were flagged in its latest SEC filings, led by return on invested capital.

What the filings flag

5.9%

FY2025

Return on invested capital. Return on invested capital is 5.9% in the latest fiscal year and steady — well below its ~10% cost of capital, so reinvested dollars may be destroying value, not building it.

121% of FCF

FY2025

Shareholder returns. Returned $188M to shareholders (buybacks + dividends) in FY2025 — 121% of free cash flow, but 80% of operating cash flow. Returns run ahead of free cash flow because the business is also funding heavy growth capex (usually debt-financed); the payout itself is covered by operating cash — sustainable as long as that spending is genuine expansion, not upkeep. Counting the $38M of stock-based comp paid out in shares on top of that, the combined claim on free cash flow is 146%.

$164M

FY2020–FY2020

Goodwill impairments. Took $164M of goodwill writedowns across 1 year (FY2020 ($164M)) — about 54600% of net income over the span. Writedowns mean past acquisitions underperformed what was paid for them.

Key fundamentals

Latest Revenue$8.75B

Revenue Growth YoY+4.6%

Revenue CAGR (3yr)+3.9%

Net Margin1.9%

Free Cash Flow$155.1M

Return on Equity9.1%

Debt / Equity0.88x

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Data from SEC EDGAR public filings · metrics as of Aug 11, 2026. Forensic signals flag probability, not certainty.