Forensic Analysis · Plastics Products · as of Nov 8, 2026
Aptargroup, Inc. (ATR)
A forensic read on Aptargroup, 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
4.3
Distress distance
Clean
Earnings quality
3
Forensic signals
15.3%
ROE
5.4%
Revenue growth
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Aptargroup, Inc. earns an A (High-quality compounder) forensic quality grade, and its balance-sheet distress test reads 4.3, placing it in the Safe zone. 3 forensic signals were flagged in its latest SEC filings, led by accruals ratio (% of NOA).
What the filings flag
+10.8%
FY2024→FY2025
Accruals ratio (% of NOA).Net operating assets grew +10.8% 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 faster than is comfortable — part of profit is sitting in the balance sheet rather than turning to cash. Net operating assets also rose $142.2M through acquisitions (increase in goodwill and intangibles); that purchase is investing and is excluded from this ratio. The build is led by inventory up +16% against +5% in revenue and PP&E up +16% against revenue +5%. A cash-flow measure on the same base disagrees: reported earnings ran behind operating cash by 5% of net operating assets, against an accruals ratio of 10.8%. 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.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.
11.1%
FY2025
Return on invested capital.Return on invested capital is 11.1% in the latest fiscal year, against 10.0% in FY2023, having run between 10.0% and 12.4% across FY2023–FY2025 with no direction held. After-tax operating profit was $306M in FY2023 and $400M in FY2025, with operating income at 11.6% of revenue in FY2023, 13.9% in FY2024 and 13.3% in FY2025. The capital base behind it grew +17% across FY2023–FY2025, from $3.1B to $3.6B, and the return did not fall doing it, so the dollars added over that window earned at least the 10.0% the older base was already earning.
162% of FCF
FY2025
Shareholder returns.Returned $486M to shareholders (buybacks + dividends) in FY2025 — 162% of free cash flow, but 85% of operating cash flow. Returns run ahead of free cash flow, with the gap funded by debt or cash reserves rather than the cash the business itself throws off; the payout itself is still covered by operating cash. Counting the $44M of stock-based comp paid out in shares on top of that, the combined claim on free cash flow is 177%.
Key fundamentals
Latest Revenue$3.78B
Revenue Growth YoY+5.4%
Revenue CAGR (2yr)+4.1%
Net Margin10.4%
Free Cash Flow$299.6M
Return on Equity15.3%
Debt / Equity0.49x
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