Forensic Analysis · Industrials / Manufacturing / Defense · as of Sep 26, 2026
Forum Energy Technologies, Inc. (FET)
A forensic read on Forum Energy Technologies, 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
0.9
Distress distance
Clean
Earnings quality
3
Forensic signals
-585.4
P / E (ttm)
-3.3%
ROE
$949M
Market cap
0.00%
Dividend yield
-3.1%
Revenue growth
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Forum Energy Technologies, Inc. earns a D (Weak — demands caution) forensic quality grade, and its balance-sheet distress test reads 0.9, placing it in the Distress zone. 3 forensic signals were flagged in its latest SEC filings, led by return on invested capital.
What the filings flag
3.8%
FY2025
Return on invested capital.Return on invested capital is 3.8% in the latest fiscal year, against 2.9% in FY2023, having run between -12.0% and 3.8% across FY2023–FY2025 with no direction held. After-tax operating profit was $16M in FY2023 and $20M in FY2025, with operating income at 2.8% of revenue in FY2023, -10.6% in FY2024 and 3.8% in FY2025. The capital base behind it came down -10% across FY2023–FY2025, from $572M to $513M, so this return is struck on a smaller base than it started on. Across FY2024–FY2025, $165M went into capital expenditure and acquisitions against $31M of depreciation excluding $57M of intangible-asset amortisation. The base is struck net of amortisation, write-downs and the current liabilities that fund it, so it moved by less than that spending net of the wear, and this row does not say which of those absorbed the difference. FY2024's operating profit carried a $119M asset write-down that alone took about 16.5 points off that year's return; FY2024 sits between the two ends of FY2023–FY2025, so the charge shapes the path between them without moving the change across it.
+7.9%/yr
FY2023–FY2025
Share-count dilution.Diluted share count changed +16% over the last 2 years to FY2025 (+7.9%/yr). The count is growing — 10.2M shares in FY2023, 11.9M in FY2025: more stock was issued than repurchased over this window, so aggregate results grew faster than their per-share equivalents. That's ~7.9% 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 ~14%.
1.1% of rev
FY2025
Stock-based comp load.Stock-based compensation ran 1.1% of revenue and 14% of free cash flow in FY2025 — about $0.76 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 7.9% a year across FY2023–FY2025, and the rate is falling. 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.
Key fundamentals
Latest Revenue$791.5M
Revenue Growth YoY-3.1%
Revenue CAGR (2yr)+3.5%
Net Margin-1.2%
Free Cash Flow$64.4M
Return on Equity-3.3%
Debt / Equity0.49x
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