Forensic Analysis · Retail / Consumer Discretionary · as of Aug 11, 2026

Albertsons Companies, Inc. (ACI)

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

D · Weak — demands caution

Forensic grade

Distress

Financial health

0.3

Distress distance

Clean

Earnings quality

Forensic signals

89.2

P / E (ttm)

11.8%

ROE

$5.8B

Market cap

5.63%

Dividend yield

3.5%

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.

Albertsons Companies, Inc. earns a D (Weak — demands caution) forensic quality grade, and its balance-sheet distress test reads 0.3, placing it in the Distress zone. 3 forensic signals were flagged in its latest SEC filings, led by return on invested capital.

What the filings flag

3.1%

FY2026

Return on invested capital. Return on invested capital is 3.1% in the latest fiscal year and slipping from 10% — well below its ~9% cost of capital, so reinvested dollars may be destroying value, not building it.

+0.8%/yr

FY2023–FY2026

Share count. Diluted share count changed +2% over the last 3 years to FY2026 (+0.8%/yr). Roughly flat — buybacks ($1.5B) are about offsetting stock comp ($96M), not shrinking the count. Per-share value isn't being meaningfully helped or hurt by the count.

342% of FCF

FY2026

Shareholder returns. Returned $1.8B to shareholders (buybacks + dividends) in FY2026 — 342% of free cash flow, but 76% of operating cash flow. Returns run ahead of free cash flow, with the gap funded by debt or cash reserves rather than the cash the business itself throws off; the payout itself is still covered by operating cash. Counting the $96M of stock-based comp paid out in shares on top of that, the combined claim on free cash flow is 360%.

Key fundamentals

Latest Revenue$83.17B

Revenue Growth YoY+3.5%

Revenue CAGR (3yr)+2.3%

Net Margin0.3%

Free Cash Flow$527.3M

Return on Equity11.8%

Debt / Equity4.87x

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