Forensic Analysis · Media / Entertainment / Streaming · as of Aug 11, 2026
Entravision Communications Corp (EVC)
A forensic read on Entravision Communications 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
Distress
Financial health
-4.0
Distress distance
Clean
Earnings quality
4
Forensic signals
-57.0
P / E (ttm)
-142.8%
ROE
$850M
Market cap
1.75%
Dividend yield
22.6%
Revenue growth
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Entravision Communications Corp earns a D (Weak — demands caution) forensic quality grade, and its balance-sheet distress test reads -4.0, 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
-29.1%
FY2025
Return on invested capital.Return on invested capital is -29.1% in the latest fiscal year and slipping from 4% — well below its ~9% cost of capital, so reinvested dollars may be destroying value, not building it.
+1.2%/yr
FY2022–FY2025
Share-count dilution.Diluted share count changed +4% over the last 3 years to FY2025 (+1.2%/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 ~1.2% 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 ~4%.
518% of FCF
FY2025
Shareholder returns.Returned $18M to shareholders (buybacks + dividends) in FY2025 — 518% of free cash flow. More than free cash flow generated — and beyond operating cash too, so the extra is coming from debt or cash reserves, which isn't sustainable indefinitely. Counting the $11M of stock-based comp paid out in shares on top of that, the combined claim on free cash flow is 830%.
$72M
FY2019–FY2024
Goodwill impairments.Took $72M of goodwill writedowns across 3 years (FY2019 ($28M), FY2020 ($800,000), FY2024 ($43M)). Writedowns mean past acquisitions underperformed what was paid for them.
Key fundamentals
Latest Revenue$447.6M
Revenue Growth YoY+22.6%
Revenue CAGR (3yr)+11.4%
Net Margin-17.7%
Free Cash Flow$3.5M
Return on Equity-142.8%
Debt / Equity3.01x
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