Forensic Analysis · Automotive / Vehicle Manufacturing · as of Aug 11, 2026
Dauch Corp (DCH)
A forensic read on Dauch Corp 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
Safe
Financial health
2.6
Distress distance
Clean
Earnings quality
4
Forensic signals
-4.6
P / E (ttm)
-3.1%
ROE
$1.6B
Market cap
0.00%
Dividend yield
-4.7%
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.
Dauch Corp earns a D (Weak — demands caution) forensic quality grade, and its balance-sheet distress test reads 2.6, placing it in the Safe zone. 4 forensic signals were flagged in its latest SEC filings, led by accruals ratio (% of noa).
What the filings flag
+40.5%
FY2024→FY2025
Accruals ratio (% of NOA).Net operating assets grew +40.5% 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 sharply — a large slice of profit sits in operating assets, not cash; Richardson/Sloan link high accruals to weaker future returns as they reverse. The cash-flow cross-check is more mixed: reported earnings ran behind operating cash by 13% of net operating assets, diverging from the balance-sheet accrual read.
1.5%
FY2025
Return on invested capital.Return on invested capital is 1.5% in the latest fiscal year and slipping from 6% — well below its ~9% cost of capital, so reinvested dollars may be destroying value, not building it.
+0.8%/yr
FY2022–FY2025
Share count.Diluted share count changed +3% over the last 3 years to FY2025 (+0.8%/yr). Roughly flat — the count is neither shrinking nor growing meaningfully. Per-share value isn't being meaningfully helped or hurt by the count.
$950M
FY2019–FY2020
Goodwill impairments.Took $950M of goodwill writedowns across 2 years (FY2019 ($440M), FY2020 ($510M)). Writedowns mean past acquisitions underperformed what was paid for them.
Key fundamentals
Latest Revenue$5.84B
Revenue Growth YoY-4.7%
Revenue CAGR (3yr)+0.2%
Net Margin-0.3%
Free Cash Flow$155.1M
Return on Equity-3.1%
Debt / Equity6.40x
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