Forensic Analysis · General / Diversified · as of Aug 10, 2026

Interdigital, Inc. (IDCC)

A forensic read on Interdigital, Inc. built from its complete SEC filings — financial-health screens, earnings quality, red flags and a price-aware rating. Reproducible math, not opinion.

B · Sound & dependable

Forensic grade

Safe

Financial health

16.7

Distress distance

Clean

Earnings quality

Forensic signals

28.5

P / E (ttm)

36.9%

ROE

$9.0B

Market cap

0.85%

Dividend yield

-4.0%

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). 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.

Interdigital, Inc. earns a B (Sound & dependable) forensic quality grade, and its balance-sheet distress test reads 16.7, placing it in the Safe zone. 3 forensic signals were flagged in its latest SEC filings, led by share-count dilution.

What the filings flag

+4.2%/yr

FY2022–FY2025

Share-count dilution. Diluted share count changed +13% over the last 3 years to FY2025 (+4.2%/yr). A change of direction: the count shrank over the full period (net -2.0%/yr since FY2011) but has grown across the recent window, so the two figures point opposite ways — read the recent window on totals versus per-share, since the full-period rate no longer describes what the count is doing now. That's ~4.2% 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 ~12%.

5% of rev

FY2025

Stock-based comp load. Stock-based compensation ran 5% of revenue and 8% of free cash flow in FY2025 — about $1.25 per diluted share. The cost of it is not in the cash flow — no cash left the business — it is in the count: holders gave up about 4.6% of the company a year, and that rate is not falling. That is the figure to weigh, not the share of free cash flow.

-84%

FY2012→FY2013

Dividend — cut. The payout was CUT ~84% in FY2013 (from FY2012) and hasn't been restored since. It still returns some cash, but it is NOT the dependable, rising dividend an unbroken streak implies.

Key fundamentals

Latest Revenue$834.0M

Revenue Growth YoY-4.0%

Revenue CAGR (3yr)+22.1%

Net Margin48.8%

Free Cash Flow$528.6M

Return on Equity36.9%

Debt / Equity0.43x

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Data from SEC EDGAR public filings · metrics as of Aug 10, 2026. Forensic signals flag probability, not certainty.