Forensic Analysis · Communication Services / Telecom · as of Aug 10, 2026

Adeia Inc. (ADEA)

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

A · High-quality compounder

Forensic grade

Safe

Financial health

8.6

Distress distance

Clean

Earnings quality

Forensic signals

25.6

P / E (ttm)

23.1%

ROE

$3.1B

Market cap

0.71%

Dividend yield

17.9%

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.

Adeia Inc. earns an A (High-quality compounder) forensic quality grade, and its balance-sheet distress test reads 8.6, placing it in the Safe zone. 3 forensic signals were flagged in its latest SEC filings, led by share-count dilution.

What the filings flag

+1.6%/yr

FY2022–FY2025

Share-count dilution. Diluted share count changed +5% over the last 3 years to FY2025 (+1.6%/yr). The count is growing: more stock was issued than repurchased over this window, so aggregate results grew faster than their per-share equivalents. That's ~1.6% shaved off per-share growth every year — total profit has to grow that much just to keep earnings-per-share flat, and a stake held since FY2022 has been diluted ~5%.

$354M

FY2022–FY2022

Goodwill impairments. Took $354M of goodwill writedowns across 1 year (FY2022 ($354M)). Writedowns mean past acquisitions underperformed what was paid for them.

-47%

FY2020→FY2021

Dividend — cut. The payout was CUT ~47% in FY2021 (from FY2020) and hasn't been restored since. It still returns some cash, but it is NOT the dependable, rising dividend an unbroken streak implies.

Key fundamentals

Latest Revenue$443.4M

Revenue Growth YoY+17.9%

Revenue CAGR (3yr)+0.3%

Net Margin25.1%

Free Cash Flow$156.3M

Return on Equity23.1%

Debt / Equity0.87x

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Data from SEC EDGAR public filings · metrics as of Aug 10, 2026. Forensic signals flag probability, not certainty.