Forensic Analysis · Industrials / Manufacturing / Defense · as of Sep 4, 2026

Chargepoint Holdings, Inc. (CHPT)

A forensic read on Chargepoint Holdings, 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

-9.8

Distress distance

Clean

Earnings quality

Forensic signals

-1.4%

Revenue growth

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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). 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.

Chargepoint Holdings, Inc. earns an F (Poor — capital at risk) forensic quality grade, and its balance-sheet distress test reads -9.8, 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

-55.4%

FY2026

Return on invested capital. Return on invested capital is -55.4% in the latest fiscal year and slipping from -51% — well below its ~9% cost of capital, and it has been across FY2019–FY2026, so reinvested dollars have not been earning their keep.

271d

FY2025→FY2026

Inventory days. Days inventory outstanding moved from 235 to 271 FY2025→FY2026 (against cost of goods sold; inventory +3% vs -10% in cost of sales). Inventory is building a little faster than sales — watch for markdowns.

n/m (stock split)

FY2023–FY2026

Share count (stock split). Diluted share count changed -93% over the last 3 years to FY2026, but that includes a large one-time change around FY2024 consistent with a stock split or reverse split, not gradual buybacks or issuance — a split changes the count with NO effect on any holder's proportional ownership, so the raw -59.0%/yr figure isn't a real buyback/dilution read here.

16% of rev

FY2026

Stock-based comp load. Stock-based compensation ran 16% of revenue in FY2026 — about $2.76 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 11.8% 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$411.2M

Revenue Growth YoY-1.4%

Revenue CAGR (3yr)-4.2%

Net Margin-53.5%

Free Cash Flow-$67.0M

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Data from SEC EDGAR public filings · metrics as of Sep 4, 2026. Forensic signals flag probability, not certainty.