Loar Holdings Inc. (LOAR) Stock — Forensic Analysis, Red Flags & Rating | Stockonomy · Stockonomy
Forensic Analysis · Industrials / Manufacturing / Defense · as of Sep 25, 2026
Loar Holdings Inc. (LOAR)
A forensic read on Loar Holdings Inc. built from its complete SEC filings — financial-health screens, earnings quality, red flags and a price-aware rating. Reproducible math, not opinion.
C · Mixed — selective
Forensic grade
Safe
Financial health
8.5
Distress distance
Clean
Earnings quality
4
Forensic signals
88.8
P / E (ttm)
6.1%
ROE
$6.0B
Market cap
23.2%
Revenue growth
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Loar Holdings Inc. earns a C (Mixed — selective) forensic quality grade, and its balance-sheet distress test reads 8.5, placing it in the Safe zone. 4 forensic signals were flagged in its latest SEC filings, led by accruals ratio (% of noa).
What the filings flag
+31.7%
FY2024→FY2025
Accruals ratio (% of NOA).Net operating assets grew +31.7% 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 sharply — a large slice of profit sits in operating assets, not cash. An accrual is a claim that still has to be collected or written down, so the gap resolves in a later period whichever way it goes. The build is led by receivables up +38% against revenue +23% and inventory up +18% against +15% in cost of sales. A cash-flow measure on the same base disagrees: reported earnings ran in line with operating cash by 3% of net operating assets, against an accruals ratio of 31.7%. 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.
5.0%
FY2025
Return on invested capital.Return on invested capital is 5.0% in the latest fiscal year, close to the 4.9% of FY2024. After-tax operating profit was $67M in FY2024 and $95M in FY2025, with operating income at 21.8% of revenue in FY2024 and 21.4% in FY2025. The capital base behind it grew +39% across FY2024–FY2025, from $1.4B to $1.9B, and the return did not fall doing it, so the dollars added over that window earned at least the 4.9% the older base was already earning.
+4.6%/yr
FY2024–FY2025
Share-count dilution.Diluted share count changed +5% over the last 1 year to FY2025 (+4.6%/yr). The count is growing: more stock was issued than repurchased over this window, so aggregate results grew faster than their per-share equivalents. That's ~4.6% 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 FY2024 has been diluted ~4%.
Key fundamentals
Latest Revenue$496.3M
Revenue Growth YoY+23.2%
Net Margin14.5%
Return on Equity6.1%
Debt / Equity0.61x
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Data from SEC EDGAR public filings · metrics as of Sep 25, 2026. Forensic signals flag probability, not certainty.
3% of rev
FY2025
Stock-based comp load.Stock-based compensation ran 3% of revenue in FY2025. 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 4.6% a year, above the level at which the count is a material claim on a stake, and only one year's change is on file — enough to state what a holder gave up, not enough to say whether the rate is climbing or coming down. 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.