Forensic Analysis · Industrials / Manufacturing / Defense · as of Aug 10, 2026
Orion Group Holdings Inc (ORN)
A forensic read on Orion Group Holdings 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
Safe
Financial health
2.6
Distress distance
Clean
Earnings quality
4
Forensic signals
116.6
P / E (ttm)
1.6%
ROE
$418M
Market cap
7.0%
Revenue growth
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Orion Group Holdings Inc earns a D (Weak — demands caution) forensic quality grade, and its balance-sheet distress test reads 2.6, placing it in the Safe zone. 4 forensic signals were flagged in its latest SEC filings, led by return on invested capital.
What the filings flag
5.9%
FY2025
Return on invested capital.Return on invested capital is 5.9% in the latest fiscal year and rising from -3% — well below its ~9% cost of capital, so reinvested dollars may be destroying value, not building it.
+8.1%/yr
FY2022–FY2025
Share-count dilution.Diluted share count changed +26% over the last 3 years to FY2025 (+8.1%/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 ~8.1% 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 ~21%.
0.6% of rev
FY2025
Stock-based comp load.Stock-based compensation ran 0.6% of revenue in FY2025 — 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 8.2% of the company a year, and that rate is not falling. That is the figure to weigh, not the share of free cash flow.
+12.7%
FY2024→FY2025
Accruals ratio (% of NOA).Net operating assets grew +12.7% 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 faster than is comfortable — part of profit is sitting in the balance sheet rather than turning to cash. The build is led by inventory up +23% against +6% in cost of sales. The cash-flow cross-check is more mixed: reported earnings ran behind operating cash by 16% of net operating assets, diverging from the balance-sheet accrual read.
Key fundamentals
Latest Revenue$852.3M
Revenue Growth YoY+7.0%
Revenue CAGR (3yr)+4.4%
Net Margin0.3%
Free Cash Flow-$10.8M
Return on Equity1.6%
Debt / Equity0.05x
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