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Forensic Analysis · General / Diversified · as of Nov 9, 2026

Driven Brands Holdings Inc. (DRVN)

A forensic read on Driven Brands 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
-0.4
Distress distance
Clean
Earnings quality
2
Forensic signals
21.4%
ROE
6.3%
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 (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.

Driven Brands Holdings Inc. earns a D (Weak — demands caution) forensic quality grade, and its balance-sheet distress test reads -0.4, placing it in the Distress zone. 2 forensic signals were flagged in its latest SEC filings, led by return on invested capital.

What the filings flag

5.0%
FY2025
Return on invested capital. Return on invested capital is 5.0% in the latest fiscal year and rising across FY2023–FY2025 from 1.7%. After-tax operating profit was $91M in FY2023 and $208M in FY2025, with operating income at 6.7% of revenue in FY2023, 11.4% in FY2024 and 12.4% in FY2025. The capital base behind it came down -23% across FY2023–FY2025, from $5.4B to $4.2B, so this return is struck on a smaller base than it started on.
stopped
FY2023→FY2025
Shareholder returns — halted. Capital returns have STOPPED — $50M of buybacks + dividends in FY2023, but ~$0 in FY2025. A halt usually means the company is conserving cash.

Key fundamentals

Latest Revenue$1.86B
Revenue Growth YoY+6.3%
Revenue CAGR (2yr)+4.4%
Net Margin7.5%
Free Cash Flow$107.8M
Return on Equity21.4%
Debt / Equity2.81x

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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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