Forensic Analysis · Industrials / Manufacturing / Defense · as of Aug 5, 2026
Astrotech Corp (ASTC)
A forensic read on Astrotech Corp built from its complete SEC filings — financial-health screens, earnings quality, red flags and a price-aware rating. Reproducible math, not opinion.
C · Mixed — selective
Forensic grade
Distress
Financial health
-24.5
Distress distance
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Earnings quality
6
Forensic signals
-62.7%
ROE
-41.2%
Revenue growth
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Astrotech Corp earns a C (Mixed — selective) forensic quality grade, and its Altman Z-score is -24.5, placing it in the Distress zone (based on book value, not market value, since this free snapshot doesn't pull live market data — treat this zone as a rough read, not the final word). 6 forensic signals were flagged in its latest SEC filings, led by accruals ratio (% of noa).
What the filings flag
+49.5%
FY2024→FY2025
Accruals ratio (% of NOA).Net operating assets grew +49.5% relative to their own average in FY2025 — scaled by NOA itself, not total assets (see the Forensic Screens card's differently-scaled Sloan Accrual Ratio for that read). Accruals are building sharply — a large slice of profit sits in operating assets, not cash; Richardson/Sloan link high accruals to weaker future returns as they reverse. The build is led by receivables up +530% against revenue -41%. The cash-flow cross-check is more mixed: reported earnings ran behind operating cash by 5% of net operating assets, diverging from the balance-sheet accrual read.
236d
FY2024→FY2025
Inventory days.Days inventory outstanding moved from 143 to 236 FY2024→FY2025 (against cost of goods sold; inventory -16% vs -45% in cost of sales). Inventory is outrunning what's being sold — a flag for softening demand or obsolescence risk ahead.
+3.0%/yr
FY2011–FY2014
Share-count dilution.Diluted share count changed +9% over the last 3 years to FY2014 (+3.0%/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 ~3.0% 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 FY2011 has been diluted ~9%.
stopped
FY2023→FY2024
Shareholder returns — halted.Capital returns have STOPPED — $119,000 of buybacks + dividends in FY2023, but ~$0 in FY2024. A halt usually means the company is conserving cash.
103d DSO
Key fundamentals
Latest Revenue$1.0M
Revenue Growth YoY-41.2%
Net Margin-1385.0%
Free Cash Flow-$13.8M
Return on Equity-62.7%
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Receivables vs revenue.Days sales outstanding moved from 32 to 103 days FY2024→FY2025 (receivables +530% vs revenue -41%). Receivables are creeping up relative to sales. Across FY2021–FY2025 the day count ran 58 → 13 → 68 → 32 → 103 days, so the latest reading sits on top of a record that was flat or falling before it — one year's move, not a direction the business has been travelling in.
83% of rev
FY2025
Stock-based comp load.Stock-based compensation ran 83% of revenue in FY2025. The cost of it is not in the cash flow — no cash left the business — it is in the count, and there it has run at about 3.0% a year and is falling.