Forensic Analysis · Technology / Software · as of Aug 11, 2026

Diebold Nixdorf, Inc (DBD)

A forensic read on Diebold Nixdorf, 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

Grey Zone

Financial health

2.2

Distress distance

Clean

Earnings quality

Forensic signals

22.8

P / E (ttm)

8.6%

ROE

$2.5B

Market cap

1.5%

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.

Diebold Nixdorf, Inc earns a D (Weak — demands caution) forensic quality grade, and its balance-sheet distress test reads 2.2, placing it in the Grey zone. 3 forensic signals were flagged in its latest SEC filings, led by dividend — suspended.

What the filings flag

suspended

FY2018→FY2020

Dividend — suspended. The dividend has been SUSPENDED — $8M paid in FY2018, then $0 in FY2020. A suspension is a major signal the board is conserving cash; the prior payment history doesn't offset it.

9.2%

FY2025

Return on invested capital. Return on invested capital is 9.2% in the latest fiscal year and rising from 6% — around its ~10% cost of capital, so growth is roughly value-neutral.

n/m (stock split)

FY2021–FY2025

Share count (stock split). Diluted share count changed -52% over the last 4 years to FY2025, 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 -17.0%/yr figure isn't a real buyback/dilution read here.

Key fundamentals

Latest Revenue$3.81B

Revenue Growth YoY+1.5%

Revenue CAGR (3yr)+3.2%

Net Margin2.5%

Return on Equity8.6%

Debt / Equity0.85x

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Data from SEC EDGAR public filings · metrics as of Aug 11, 2026. Forensic signals flag probability, not certainty.