Forensic Analysis · Healthcare / Pharmaceuticals / Biotech · as of Sep 26, 2026
Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (ARWR)
A forensic read on Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals, 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
Safe
Financial health
11.0
Distress distance
Clean
Earnings quality
4
Forensic signals
-29.7
P / E (ttm)
-0.3%
ROE
$9.5B
Market cap
0.00%
Dividend yield
23258.2%
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, going concern, valuation). 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.
Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals, Inc. earns a D (Weak — demands caution) forensic quality grade, and its balance-sheet distress test reads 11.0, placing it in the Safe zone. 4 forensic signals were flagged in its latest SEC filings, led by return on invested capital.
What the filings flag
5.4%
FY2025
Return on invested capital.Return on invested capital is 5.4% in the latest fiscal year, against -24.5% in FY2023, having run between -45.8% and 5.4% across FY2023–FY2025 with no direction held. After-tax operating profit was ($162M) in FY2023 and $64M in FY2025, with operating income at -85.2% of revenue in FY2023, -16927.1% in FY2024 and 11.9% in FY2025. The capital base behind it grew +80% across FY2023–FY2025, from $660M to $1.2B, and the return did not fall doing it, so the dollars added over that window earned at least the -24.5% the older base was already earning. $693M of the $1.2B base at FY2025 is short-term investments (58.2%) — securities held beside cash, which the base keeps because only cash is subtracted from it; they earn the balance sheet's yield, which is not in the operating profit above, so this rate understates what the operating capital earns.
+11.9%/yr
FY2023–FY2025
Share-count dilution.Diluted share count changed +25% over the last 2 years to FY2025 (+11.9%/yr). The count is growing — 106.8M shares in FY2023, 133.8M in FY2025: more stock was issued than repurchased over this window, so aggregate results grew faster than their per-share equivalents. That's ~11.9% 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 ~20%.
+86.1%
FY2024→FY2025
Accruals ratio (% of NOA).Net operating assets grew +86.1% relative to their own average in FY2025 — scaled by NOA itself, not by total assets, which is what the Forensic Screens card's own accrual row divides by. Accruals are building sharply, and much of it is accounted for. That build tracks a +23258% revenue year: net operating assets grew +151%, so the balance sheet is carrying more volume rather than getting heavier per dollar of sales — the accrual build is funding demand the company is shipping, not earnings running ahead of collection. A cash-flow measure on the same base disagrees: reported earnings ran behind operating cash by 56% of net operating assets, against an accruals ratio of 86.1%. The two are computed differently: the accruals ratio is the change in net operating assets over average net operating assets, while the cash-flow figure is net income less operating cash flow over that same average. Read them as two results, not one.
Key fundamentals
Latest Revenue$829.4M
Revenue Growth YoY+23258.2%
Revenue CAGR (2yr)+85.5%
Net Margin-0.2%
Free Cash Flow$156.9M
Return on Equity-0.3%
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Data from SEC EDGAR public filings · metrics as of Sep 26, 2026. Forensic signals flag probability, not certainty.
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8% of rev
FY2025
Stock-based comp load.Stock-based compensation ran 8% of revenue and 40% of free cash flow in FY2025 — about $0.47 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 11.9% a year across FY2023–FY2025, and the rate is falling. 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.