Forensic Analysis · Media / Entertainment / Streaming · as of Aug 11, 2026
Cinemark Holdings, Inc. (CNK)
A forensic read on Cinemark Holdings, Inc. 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
Distress
Financial health
0.5
Distress distance
Watch
Earnings quality
6
Forensic signals
20.2
P / E (ttm)
42.8%
ROE
$4.3B
Market cap
0.95%
Dividend yield
2.1%
Revenue growth
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.
Cinemark Holdings, Inc. earns a D (Weak — demands caution) forensic quality grade, and its balance-sheet distress test reads 0.5, placing it in the Distress zone. 6 forensic signals were flagged in its latest SEC filings, led by return on invested capital.
What the filings flag
-5.3%
FY2021
Return on invested capital.Return on invested capital is -5.3% in the latest fiscal year and slipping from 7% — well below its ~9% cost of capital, so reinvested dollars may be destroying value, not building it.
+4.3%/yr
FY2022–FY2025
Share-count dilution.Diluted share count changed +14% over the last 3 years to FY2025 (+4.3%/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 ~4.3% 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 FY2022 has been diluted ~12%.
stopped
FY2020→FY2021
Shareholder returns — halted.Capital returns have STOPPED — $42M of buybacks + dividends in FY2020, but ~$0 in FY2021. A halt usually means the company is conserving cash.
suspended
FY2020→FY2021
Dividend — suspended.The dividend has been SUSPENDED — $42M paid in FY2020, then $0 in FY2021. A suspension is a major signal the board is conserving cash; the prior payment history doesn't offset it.
1.2% of rev
FY2025
Stock-based comp load.Stock-based compensation ran 1.2% of revenue in FY2025 — about $0.27 per diluted share. The cost of it is not in the cash flow — no cash left the business — it is in the count, and there it has run at about 5.7% a year and is falling.
Key fundamentals
Latest Revenue$3.12B
Revenue Growth YoY+2.1%
Revenue CAGR (3yr)+8.3%
Net Margin4.4%
Free Cash Flow$70.7M
Return on Equity42.8%
Debt / Equity5.88x
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Data from SEC EDGAR public filings · metrics as of Aug 11, 2026. Forensic signals flag probability, not certainty.
$16M
FY2020–FY2020
Goodwill impairments.Took $16M of goodwill writedowns across 1 year (FY2020 ($16M)). Writedowns mean past acquisitions underperformed what was paid for them.
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