Forensic Analysis · Healthcare / Pharmaceuticals / Biotech · as of Aug 11, 2026
Novocure Ltd (NVCR)
A forensic read on Novocure Ltd 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
Grey Zone
Financial health
1.6
Distress distance
Clean
Earnings quality
5
Forensic signals
-12.6
P / E (ttm)
-40.0%
ROE
$2.0B
Market cap
0.00%
Dividend yield
8.3%
Revenue growth
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Novocure Ltd earns a D (Weak — demands caution) forensic quality grade, and its balance-sheet distress test reads 1.6, placing it in the Grey zone. 5 forensic signals were flagged in its latest SEC filings, led by accruals ratio (% of noa).
What the filings flag
+40.3%
FY2024→FY2025
Accruals ratio (% of NOA).Net operating assets grew +40.3% relative to their own average in FY2025 — scaled by NOA itself, not total assets (see the Forensic Screens card's differently-scaled Sloan Accrual Ratio for that read). Accruals are building sharply — a large slice of profit sits in operating assets, not cash; Richardson/Sloan link high accruals to weaker future returns as they reverse. The build is led by receivables up +20% against revenue +8% and inventory up +17% against +22% in cost of sales. The cash-flow cross-check is more mixed: reported earnings ran behind operating cash by 24% of net operating assets, diverging from the balance-sheet accrual read.
-24.9%
FY2025
Return on invested capital.Return on invested capital is -24.9% in the latest fiscal year and slipping from -8% — well below its ~10% cost of capital, so reinvested dollars may be destroying value, not building it.
+2.1%/yr
FY2022–FY2025
Share-count dilution.Diluted share count changed +7% over the last 3 years to FY2025 (+2.1%/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 ~2.1% 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 FY2022 has been diluted ~6%.
16% of rev
FY2025
Stock-based comp load.Stock-based compensation ran 16% of revenue in FY2025 — about $0.94 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 2.1% of the company a year, and that rate is not falling. That is the figure to weigh, not the share of free cash flow.
Key fundamentals
Latest Revenue$655.4M
Revenue Growth YoY+8.3%
Revenue CAGR (3yr)+6.8%
Net Margin-20.8%
Free Cash Flow-$75.7M
Return on Equity-40.0%
Debt / Equity0.57x
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Shareholder returns — halted.Capital returns have STOPPED — $5,000 of buybacks + dividends in FY2015, but ~$0 in FY2017. A halt usually means the company is conserving cash.