Huron Consulting Group Inc. (HURN) Stock — Forensic Analysis, Red Flags & Rating | Stockonomy · Stockonomy
Forensic Analysis · Professional & Commercial Services · as of Sep 25, 2026
Huron Consulting Group Inc. (HURN)
A forensic read on Huron Consulting Group Inc. built from its complete SEC filings — financial-health screens, earnings quality, red flags and a price-aware rating. Reproducible math, not opinion.
A · High-quality compounder
Forensic grade
Safe
Financial health
5.1
Distress distance
Clean
Earnings quality
3
Forensic signals
21.8
P / E (ttm)
19.9%
ROE
$2.5B
Market cap
11.7%
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 (red flags, auditor quality, say on pay, board independence, going concern, valuation). 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.
Huron Consulting Group Inc. earns an A (High-quality compounder) forensic quality grade, and its balance-sheet distress test reads 5.1, placing it in the Safe zone. 3 forensic signals were flagged in its latest SEC filings, led by accruals ratio (% of noa).
What the filings flag
+12.3%
FY2024→FY2025
Accruals ratio (% of NOA).Net operating assets grew +12.3% 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 faster than is comfortable — part of profit is sitting in the balance sheet rather than turning to cash. A cash-flow measure on the same base disagrees: reported earnings ran behind operating cash by 9% of net operating assets, against an accruals ratio of 12.3%. 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. Read them as two results, not one.
12.2%
FY2025
Return on invested capital.Return on invested capital is 12.2% in the latest fiscal year and rising across FY2023–FY2025 from 9.9%. After-tax operating profit was $93M in FY2023 and $139M in FY2025, with operating income at 9.0% of revenue in FY2023, 11.1% in FY2024 and 10.5% in FY2025. The capital base behind it grew +20% across FY2023–FY2025, from $947M to $1.1B, and the return did not fall doing it, so the dollars added over that window earned at least the 9.9% the older base was already earning.
103% of FCF
FY2025
Shareholder returns.Returned $167M to shareholders (buybacks + dividends) in FY2025 — 103% of free cash flow. That is $4M (3%) more than free cash flow covered. New debt covered it: total debt rose $153M over FY2025, while cash rose $3M. That ratio has actually been EASING, not tightening further — down from ~123% of free cash flow two years back. Counting the $47M of stock-based comp paid out in shares on top of that, the combined claim on free cash flow is 131%.
Key fundamentals
Latest Revenue$1.70B
Revenue Growth YoY+11.7%
Revenue CAGR (2yr)+10.2%
Net Margin6.2%
Free Cash Flow$162.3M
Return on Equity19.9%
Debt / Equity0.96x
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