Forensic Analysis · Durable Goods, Textiles & Apparel · as of Aug 11, 2026

Albany International Corp /De/ (AIN)

A forensic read on Albany International Corp /De/ 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

Safe

Financial health

5.4

Distress distance

Clean

Earnings quality

Forensic signals

-36.2

P / E (ttm)

-7.9%

ROE

$1.7B

Market cap

1.83%

Dividend yield

-3.9%

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.

Albany International Corp /De/ earns a D (Weak — demands caution) forensic quality grade, and its balance-sheet distress test reads 5.4, placing it in the Safe zone. 2 forensic signals were flagged in its latest SEC filings, led by return on invested capital.

What the filings flag

-2.5%

FY2025

Return on invested capital. Return on invested capital is -2.5% in the latest fiscal year and slipping from 12% — well below its ~9% cost of capital, so reinvested dollars may be destroying value, not building it.

264% of FCF

FY2025

Shareholder returns. Returned $218M to shareholders (buybacks + dividends) in FY2025 — 264% of free cash flow. More than free cash flow generated — and beyond operating cash too, so the extra is coming from debt or cash reserves, which isn't sustainable indefinitely. Counting the $10M of stock-based comp paid out in shares on top of that, the combined claim on free cash flow is 277%.

Key fundamentals

Latest Revenue$1.18B

Revenue Growth YoY-3.9%

Revenue CAGR (3yr)+4.6%

Net Margin-4.8%

Free Cash Flow$82.6M

Return on Equity-7.9%

Debt / Equity0.63x

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