Forensic Analysis · Technology / Software · as of Aug 11, 2026

Netscout Systems Inc (NTCT)

A forensic read on Netscout Systems 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

5.7

Distress distance

Clean

Earnings quality

Forensic signals

29.6

P / E (ttm)

5.8%

ROE

$2.8B

Market cap

4.5%

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.

Netscout Systems Inc earns a C (Mixed — selective) forensic quality grade, and its balance-sheet distress test reads 5.7, placing it in the Safe zone. 3 forensic signals were flagged in its latest SEC filings, led by return on invested capital.

What the filings flag

6.8%

FY2026

Return on invested capital. Return on invested capital is 6.8% in the latest fiscal year and rising from 3% — well below its ~10% cost of capital, so reinvested dollars may be destroying value, not building it.

+0.1%/yr

FY2023–FY2026

Share count. Diluted share count changed +0% over the last 3 years to FY2026 (+0.1%/yr). Roughly flat — buybacks ($61M) are about offsetting stock comp ($60M), not shrinking the count. Per-share value isn't being meaningfully helped or hurt by the count.

$644M

FY2024–FY2025

Goodwill impairments. Took $644M of goodwill writedowns across 2 years (FY2024 ($217M), FY2025 ($427M)). Writedowns mean past acquisitions underperformed what was paid for them.

Key fundamentals

Latest Revenue$859.5M

Revenue Growth YoY+4.5%

Revenue CAGR (3yr)-2.0%

Net Margin11.1%

Free Cash Flow$285.4M

Return on Equity5.8%

Debt / Equity0.00x

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Data from SEC EDGAR public filings · metrics as of Aug 11, 2026. Forensic signals flag probability, not certainty.