Forensic Analysis · Professional & Commercial Services · as of Nov 8, 2026
Arlo Technologies, Inc. (ARLO)
A forensic read on Arlo Technologies, 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
-1.3
Distress distance
Clean
Earnings quality
4
Forensic signals
13.1%
ROE
3.6%
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 (auditor quality, say on pay, board independence, going concern). 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.
Arlo Technologies, Inc. earns a D (Weak — demands caution) forensic quality grade, and its balance-sheet distress test reads -1.3, placing it in the Distress zone. 4 forensic signals were flagged in its latest SEC filings, led by share-count dilution.
What the filings flag
+9.0%/yr
FY2023–FY2025
Share-count dilution.Diluted share count changed +19% over the last 2 years to FY2025 (+9.0%/yr). The count is growing — 92.8M shares in FY2023, 110.2M in FY2025: more stock was issued than repurchased over this window, so aggregate results grew faster than their per-share equivalents. That's ~9.0% 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 FY2023 has been diluted ~16%.
12% of rev
FY2025
Stock-based comp load.Stock-based compensation ran 12% of revenue and 93% of free cash flow in FY2025 — about $0.57 per diluted share. No cash left the business to pay it, which is why operating cash flow adds it back. Net of repurchases the diluted count still rose about 9.0% a year across FY2023–FY2025 and that rate is not falling, so total profit has to grow by that much annually before any of it reaches a share. Stock compensation is one source of that issuance; acquisition consideration, equity raises, convertibles and other employee plans also net into the count, and these figures do not separate them.
n/m (sign flip)
FY2024→FY2025
Accruals ratio (% of NOA).Net operating assets flipped from positive to negative FY2024→FY2025 (FY2024 $+18.9M to FY2025 $-18.6M) — the standard accruals ratio divides by the average of the two, which collapses toward zero right as the sign changes, so the resulting percentage is a denominator artifact, not a real accrual measurement. Treat this as a structural balance-sheet shift to understand on its own terms rather than a clean or dirty accruals read.Accruals ratio: the year-over-year change in net operating assets, relative to their own average.NOA (net operating assets): the money tied up in running the business, operating assets minus operating liabilities.
50d
FY2024→FY2025
Inventory days.Days inventory outstanding moved from 45 to 50 FY2024→FY2025 (against cost of goods sold; inventory +1% vs -8% in cost of sales). Inventory is building a little faster than sales — watch for markdowns.
Key fundamentals
Latest Revenue$529.3M
Revenue Growth YoY+3.6%
Revenue CAGR (2yr)+3.8%
Net Margin2.8%
Free Cash Flow$66.9M
Return on Equity13.1%
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