Forensic Analysis · Industrials / Manufacturing / Defense · as of Aug 5, 2026
Orion Energy Systems, Inc. (OESX)
A forensic read on Orion Energy Systems, 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
-5.8
Distress distance
Clean
Earnings quality
5
Forensic signals
-19.0%
ROE
8.3%
Revenue growth
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Orion Energy Systems, Inc. earns an F (Poor — capital at risk) forensic quality grade, and its Altman Z-score is -5.8, placing it in the Distress zone (based on book value, not market value, since this free snapshot doesn't pull live market data — treat this zone as a rough read, not the final word). 5 forensic signals were flagged in its latest SEC filings, led by return on invested capital.
What the filings flag
-5.9%
FY2026
Return on invested capital.Return on invested capital is -5.9% in the latest fiscal year and rising from -41% — well below its ~9% cost of capital, so reinvested dollars may be destroying value, not building it.
0.6% of rev
FY2026
Stock-based comp load.Stock-based compensation ran 0.6% of revenue in FY2026 — about $0.14 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 3.6% of the company a year, and that rate is not falling. That is the figure to weigh, not the share of free cash flow.
stopped
FY2012→FY2015
Shareholder returns — halted.Capital returns have STOPPED — $6M of buybacks + dividends in FY2012, but ~$0 in FY2015. A halt usually means the company is conserving cash.
+17.4%
FY2025→FY2026
Accruals ratio (% of NOA).Net operating assets grew +17.4% relative to their own average in FY2026 — scaled by NOA itself, not total assets (see the Forensic Screens card's differently-scaled Sloan Accrual Ratio for that read). Accruals are building faster than is comfortable — part of profit is sitting in the balance sheet rather than turning to cash. The build is led by receivables up +27% against revenue +8%. The cash-flow cross-check is more mixed: reported earnings ran behind operating cash by 12% of net operating assets, diverging from the balance-sheet accrual read.
n/m (stock split)
FY2023–FY2026
Key fundamentals
Latest Revenue$86.3M
Revenue Growth YoY+8.3%
Revenue CAGR (3yr)+3.7%
Net Margin-3.7%
Free Cash Flow-$1.2M
Return on Equity-19.0%
Debt / Equity0.36x
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Share count (stock split).
Diluted share count changed -89% over the last 3 years to FY2026, but that includes a large one-time change around FY2024 consistent with a stock split or reverse split, not gradual buybacks or issuance — a split changes the count with NO effect on any holder's proportional ownership, so the raw -51.8%/yr figure isn't a real buyback/dilution read here.