Forensic Analysis · Professional & Commercial Services · as of Oct 19, 2026
Katapult Holdings, Inc. (KPLT)
A forensic read on Katapult Holdings, Inc. built from its complete SEC filings — financial-health screens, earnings quality, red flags and a price-aware rating. Reproducible math, not opinion.
F · Poor — capital at risk
Forensic grade
Distress
Financial health
-5.6
Distress distance
Watch
Earnings quality
4
Forensic signals
33.6
P / E (ttm)
$545M
Market cap
18.0%
Revenue growth
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Katapult Holdings, Inc. earns an F (Poor — capital at risk) forensic quality grade, and its balance-sheet distress test reads -5.6, placing it in the Distress zone. 4 forensic signals were flagged in its latest SEC filings, led by return on invested capital.
What the filings flag
-40.0%
FY2023
Return on invested capital.Return on invested capital is -40.0% in the latest fiscal year.
+10.9%/yr
FY2023–FY2025
Share-count dilution.Diluted share count changed +23% over the last 2 years to FY2025 (+10.9%/yr). The count is growing — 4.1M shares in FY2023, 5.0M in FY2025: more stock was issued than repurchased over this window, so aggregate results grew faster than their per-share equivalents. That's ~10.9% 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 ~19%.
1.3% of rev
FY2025
Stock-based comp load.Stock-based compensation ran 1.3% of revenue in FY2025 — about $0.73 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 10.9% 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.
-$61.9M
FY2023–FY2025
Cash burn vs. reported loss.Over FY2023–FY2025, the company reported a cumulative net loss of $61.2M against operating cash flow of -$61.9M. 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$291.8M
Revenue Growth YoY+18.0%
Revenue CAGR (2yr)+14.7%
Net Margin0.5%
Free Cash Flow-$13.1M
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