Forensic Analysis · Industrials / Manufacturing / Defense · as of Sep 25, 2026
Astronics Corp (ATRO)
A forensic read on Astronics Corp 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
10.0
Distress distance
Clean
Earnings quality
3
Forensic signals
35.7
P / E (ttm)
21.0%
ROE
$3.0B
Market cap
8.4%
Revenue growth
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Astronics Corp earns a D (Weak — demands caution) forensic quality grade, and its balance-sheet distress test reads 10.0, placing it in the Safe zone. 3 forensic signals were flagged in its latest SEC filings, led by share-count dilution.
What the filings flag
+5.0%/yr
FY2023–FY2025
Share-count dilution.Diluted share count changed +10% over the last 2 years to FY2025 (+5.0%/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 ~5.0% 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 ~9%.
12.6%
FY2025
Return on invested capital.Return on invested capital is 12.6% in the latest fiscal year and rising across FY2023–FY2025 from -1.1%. After-tax operating profit was ($5M) in FY2023 and $69M in FY2025, with operating income at -1.0% of revenue in FY2023, 3.3% in FY2024 and 8.9% in FY2025. The capital base behind it cannot be compared across FY2023–FY2025: short-term debt is tagged in one of those two fiscal years and not the other, and an untagged line enters this calculation as zero, so any change in the base would be a change in what the filer tagged.
0.8% of rev
FY2025
Stock-based comp load.Stock-based compensation ran 0.8% of revenue and 16% of free cash flow in FY2025 — about $0.19 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 5.0% a year, 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.
Key fundamentals
Latest Revenue$862.1M
Revenue Growth YoY+8.4%
Revenue CAGR (2yr)+11.8%
Net Margin3.4%
Free Cash Flow$43.1M
Return on Equity21.0%
Debt / Equity2.39x
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