Forensic Analysis · Healthcare / Pharmaceuticals / Biotech · as of Jun 27, 2026
Guardant Health, Inc. (GH)
A forensic read on Guardant Health, 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
-2.6
Altman Z-score
Clean
Earnings quality
4
Forensic signals
-246.6%
ROE
$19.8B
Market cap
Guardant Health, Inc. earns a D (Weak — demands caution) forensic quality grade, and its Altman Z-score is -2.6, placing it in the Distress zone. 4 forensic signals were flagged in its latest SEC filings, led by accruals ratio.
What the filings flag
+73.0%Accruals ratio.Net operating assets grew +73.0% relative to their average in FY2025 — the accrual component of earnings. 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 agrees: reported earnings ran behind operating cash by -31% of net operating assets.
-26%Return on invested capital.Return on invested capital is -26% and rising from -34% — well below its ~10% cost of capital, so reinvested dollars may be destroying value, not building it.
+7.6%/yrShare-count dilution.Diluted share count changed +23% over the last 3 years to FY2025 (+7.6%/yr). The count is GROWING — existing holders are being diluted. That's ~7.6% 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 ~23%.
17% of revStock-based comp load.Stock-based compensation ran 17% of revenue in FY2025 — about $1.33 per diluted share. Meaningful — reported free cash flow flatters the economics, since SBC is a real cost paid in shares.
Key fundamentals
Net Margin-42.4%
Free Cash Flow$-233.1M
Latest Revenue$982.0M
Revenue Growth YoY+32.9%
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