Forensic Analysis · Amusement & Recreation · as of Nov 9, 2026
Falcon's Beyond Global, Inc. (FBYD)
A forensic read on Falcon's Beyond Global, 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
-5.0
Distress distance
Watch
Earnings quality
6
Forensic signals
120.8%
Revenue growth
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Falcon's Beyond Global, Inc. earns a D (Weak — demands caution) forensic quality grade, and its balance-sheet distress test reads -5.0, placing it in the Distress zone. 6 forensic signals were flagged in its latest SEC filings, led by accruals ratio (% of NOA).
What the filings flag
+97.1%
FY2024→FY2025
Accruals ratio (% of NOA).Net operating assets grew +97.1% relative to their own average in FY2025 — scaled by NOA itself, not by total assets, which is what the Forensic Screens card's own accrual row divides by. Accruals are building sharply — a large slice of profit sits in operating assets, not cash. An accrual is a claim that still has to be collected or written down, so the gap resolves in a later period whichever way it goes. Net operating assets also rose $1.1M through acquisitions (increase in goodwill and intangibles); that purchase is investing and is excluded from this ratio. The build is led by receivables up +116% against revenue +121% and payables paid down 11% against +121% in revenue. A cash-flow measure on the same base agrees: reported earnings ran ahead of operating cash by 114% of net operating assets, against an accruals ratio of 97.1%. The two are computed differently: the accruals ratio is the change in net operating assets over average net operating assets, while the cash-flow figure is net income less operating cash flow over that same average.Accruals ratio: the year-over-year change in net operating assets, relative to their own average.NOA (net operating assets): the money tied up in running the business, operating assets minus operating liabilities.
-44.2%
FY2025
Return on invested capital.Return on invested capital is -44.2% in the latest fiscal year.
+114.7%/yr
FY2023–FY2025
Share-count dilution.Diluted share count changed +361% over the last 2 years to FY2025 (+114.7%/yr). The count is growing — 8.5M shares in FY2023, 39.3M in FY2025: more stock was issued than repurchased over this window, so aggregate results grew faster than their per-share equivalents. That's ~114.7% 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 FY2023 has been diluted ~78%.
11% of rev
FY2025
Stock-based comp load.Stock-based compensation ran 11% of revenue in FY2025 — about $0.04 per diluted share. No cash left the business to pay it, which is why operating cash flow adds it back. Net of repurchases the diluted count still rose about 114.7% a year across FY2023–FY2025 and that rate is not falling, so total profit has to grow by that much annually before any of it reaches a share. Stock compensation is one source of that issuance; acquisition consideration, equity raises, convertibles and other employee plans also net into the count, and these figures do not separate them.
FCF ($25M)
FY2025
Shareholder returns.Returned $545,000 to shareholders (buybacks + dividends) in FY2025, but free cash flow was ($25M) after capex — there was no free cash flow to fund the payout from at all, and operating cash flow itself was negative or zero that year too. The entire return is coming from debt or cash reserves, not cash the business itself generated — a harder case than returns merely running ahead of free cash flow, since here there was none to run ahead of.
-$60.6M
FY2023–FY2025
Cash burn vs. reported loss.Over FY2023–FY2025, the company reported a cumulative net loss of $22.7M against operating cash flow of -$60.6M. Cash burn ran heavier than the reported loss — something outside net income (working capital, a cash item not in the P&L) is consuming cash faster than the loss alone implies.
Key fundamentals
Latest Revenue$14.9M
Revenue Growth YoY+120.8%
Revenue CAGR (2yr)-9.6%
Net Margin19.1%
Free Cash Flow-$24.8M
Debt / Equity1.19x
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