Forensic Analysis · Utilities · as of Aug 11, 2026
Clearway Energy, Inc. (CWEN)
A forensic read on Clearway Energy, 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
0.7
Distress distance
Clean
Earnings quality
4
Forensic signals
38.5
P / E (ttm)
2.9%
ROE
$5.4B
Market cap
4.70%
Dividend yield
4.2%
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.
Clearway Energy, Inc. earns a D (Weak — demands caution) forensic quality grade, and its balance-sheet distress test reads 0.7, placing it in the Distress zone. 4 forensic signals were flagged in its latest SEC filings, led by return on invested capital.
What the filings flag
0.8%
FY2025
Return on invested capital.Return on invested capital is 0.8% in the latest fiscal year and slipping from 11% — well below its ~6% cost of capital, so reinvested dollars may be destroying value, not building it.
+14.1%
FY2024→FY2025
Accruals ratio (% of NOA).Net operating assets grew +14.1% relative to their own average in FY2025 — scaled by NOA itself, not total assets (see the Forensic Screens card's differently-scaled Sloan Accrual Ratio for that read). Accruals are building faster than is comfortable — part of profit is sitting in the balance sheet rather than turning to cash. The build is led by inventory up +17% against +6% in cost of sales and PP&E up +17% against revenue +4%. The cash-flow cross-check is more mixed: reported earnings ran in line with operating cash by 4% of net operating assets, diverging from the balance-sheet accrual read.
+0.0%/yr
FY2022–FY2025
Share count.Diluted share count changed +0% over the last 3 years to FY2025 (+0.0%/yr). Roughly flat — the count is neither shrinking nor growing meaningfully. Per-share value isn't being meaningfully helped or hurt by the count.
-90%
FY2024→FY2025
Dividend — cut.The payout was CUT ~90% in FY2025 (from FY2024). It still returns some cash, but it is NOT the dependable, rising dividend an unbroken streak implies.
Key fundamentals
Latest Revenue$1.43B
Revenue Growth YoY+4.2%
Revenue CAGR (3yr)+6.3%
Net Margin11.8%
Free Cash Flow$369.0M
Return on Equity2.9%
Debt / Equity1.48x
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