Forensic Analysis · Technology / Software · as of Oct 3, 2026
Smartbird, Inc. (BIRD)
A forensic read on Smartbird, Inc. built from its complete SEC filings — financial-health screens, earnings quality, red flags and a price-aware rating. Reproducible math, not opinion.
F · Poor — capital at risk
Forensic grade
Distress
Financial health
-18.6
Distress distance
Clean
Earnings quality
4
Forensic signals
-215.2%
ROE
-19.7%
Revenue growth
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Smartbird, Inc. earns an F (Poor — capital at risk) forensic quality grade, and its balance-sheet distress test reads -18.6, 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). 4 forensic signals were flagged in its latest SEC filings, led by return on invested capital.
What the filings flag
-150.1%
FY2025
Return on invested capital.Return on invested capital is -150.1% in the latest fiscal year and slipping across FY2023–FY2025 from -90.2%. After-tax operating profit was ($121M) in FY2023 and ($63M) in FY2025, with operating income at -60.2% of revenue in FY2023, -51.4% in FY2024 and -52.4% in FY2025. The capital base behind it cannot be compared across FY2023–FY2025: long-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. FY2023's operating profit carried a $27M asset write-down and a $7M restructuring charge that alone took about 20.1 points off that year's return, so the FY2025 return is being compared with a base year that charge had already pulled down.
16d DSO
FY2024→FY2025
Receivables vs revenue.Days sales outstanding moved from 12 to 16 days FY2024→FY2025 (receivables +11% vs revenue -20%). Receivables are creeping up relative to sales. Across FY2023–FY2025 the day count ran 12 → 12 → 16 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. Deferred revenue was roughly flat (-56%) over the same period, which doesn't corroborate a benign upfront-billing explanation for the receivables build. Both figures are measured on period-end balances rather than the beginning-plus-ending average, because averaging needs the balance a year before every reading — FY2024's opening balance is on file, but across the 3 fiscal years read here (FY2023–FY2025) the average yields only 2 day counts (1 step), too few to tell a climb from one year's move.
+3.7%/yr
FY2023–FY2025
Share-count dilution.Diluted share count changed +8% over the last 2 years to FY2025 (+3.7%/yr). The count is growing — 7.6M shares in FY2023, 8.2M in FY2025: more stock was issued than repurchased over this window, so aggregate results grew faster than their per-share equivalents. That's ~3.7% 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 ~7%.
Key fundamentals
Latest Revenue$152.5M
Revenue Growth YoY-19.7%
Revenue CAGR (2yr)-22.5%
Net Margin-50.7%
Free Cash Flow-$58.2M
Return on Equity-215.2%
Debt / Equity0.48x
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Data from SEC EDGAR public filings · metrics as of Oct 3, 2026. Forensic signals flag probability, not certainty.
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5% of rev
FY2025
Stock-based comp load.Stock-based compensation ran 5% of revenue in FY2025 — about $0.95 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 3.7% 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.