Forensic Analysis · Healthcare / Pharmaceuticals / Biotech · as of Sep 25, 2026
Novavax Inc (NVAX)
A forensic read on Novavax Inc built from its complete SEC filings — financial-health screens, earnings quality, red flags and a price-aware rating. Reproducible math, not opinion.
D · Weak — demands caution
Forensic grade
Distress
Financial health
-5.8
Distress distance
Watch
Earnings quality
3
Forensic signals
-6.7
P / E (ttm)
$1.7B
Market cap
0.00%
Dividend yield
64.7%
Revenue growth
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Novavax Inc earns a D (Weak — demands caution) forensic quality grade, and its balance-sheet distress test reads -5.8, placing it in the Distress zone. 3 forensic signals were flagged in its latest SEC filings, led by share-count dilution.
What the filings flag
+31.1%/yr
FY2023–FY2025
Share-count dilution.Diluted share count changed +72% over the last 2 years to FY2025 (+31.1%/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 ~31.1% 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 ~42%.
-$1.0B
FY2023–FY2025
Cash burn vs. reported loss.Over FY2023–FY2025, the company reported a cumulative net loss of $292.3M against operating cash flow of -$1.0B. 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.
3% of rev
FY2025
Stock-based comp load.Stock-based compensation ran 3% of revenue in FY2025 — about $0.21 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 32.4% a year, and the rate is falling. 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.
Key fundamentals
Latest Revenue$1.12B
Revenue Growth YoY+64.7%
Revenue CAGR (2yr)+6.9%
Net Margin39.2%
Free Cash Flow-$250.2M
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