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Forensic Analysis · Communications Equipment & Electronic Components · as of Nov 9, 2026

Clearone Inc (CLRO)

A forensic read on Clearone 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
-63.8
Distress distance
2
Forensic signals
-253.0%
ROE

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 (auditor quality, say on pay, board independence, going concern). 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.

Clearone Inc earns an F (Poor — capital at risk) forensic quality grade, and its balance-sheet distress test reads -63.8, placing it in the Distress zone. 2 forensic signals were flagged in its latest SEC filings, led by shareholder returns — halted.

What the filings flag

stopped
FY2024→FY2025
Shareholder returns — halted. Capital returns have STOPPED — $14M of buybacks + dividends in FY2024, but ~$0 in FY2025. A halt usually means the company is conserving cash.
n/m (sign flip)
FY2024→FY2025
Accruals ratio (% of NOA). Net operating assets flipped from positive to negative FY2024→FY2025 (FY2024 $+19.9M to FY2025 $-0.9M) — the standard accruals ratio divides by the average of the two, which collapses toward zero right as the sign changes, so the resulting percentage is a denominator artifact, not a real accrual measurement. Treat this as a structural balance-sheet shift to understand on its own terms rather than a clean or dirty accruals read.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.

Key fundamentals

Return on Equity-253.0%

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Data from SEC EDGAR public filings · metrics as of Nov 9, 2026. Forensic signals flag probability, not certainty.

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