Forensic Analysis · Technology / Software · as of Aug 11, 2026
Sentinelone, Inc. (S)
A forensic read on Sentinelone, 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
5.1
Distress distance
Clean
Earnings quality
4
Forensic signals
-22.3
P / E (ttm)
-31.4%
ROE
$7.6B
Market cap
0.00%
Dividend yield
21.9%
Revenue growth
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Sentinelone, Inc. earns a D (Weak — demands caution) forensic quality grade, and its balance-sheet distress test reads 5.1, 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
-16.8%
FY2026
Return on invested capital.Return on invested capital is -16.8% in the latest fiscal year and rising from -19% — well below its ~10% cost of capital, so reinvested dollars may be destroying value, not building it.
+5.9%/yr
FY2023–FY2026
Share-count dilution.Diluted share count changed +19% over the last 3 years to FY2026 (+5.9%/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 ~5.9% 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 ~16%.
264% of FCF
FY2026
Shareholder returns.Returned $200M to shareholders (buybacks + dividends) in FY2026 — 264% of free cash flow. More than free cash flow generated — and beyond operating cash too, so the extra is coming from debt or cash reserves, which isn't sustainable indefinitely. Counting the $298M of stock-based comp paid out in shares on top of that, the combined claim on free cash flow is 656%.
30% of rev
FY2026
Stock-based comp load.Stock-based compensation ran 30% of revenue and 392% of free cash flow in FY2026 — about $0.90 per diluted share. The cost of it is not in the cash flow — no cash left the business — it is in the count, and there it has run at about 5.9% a year and is falling.
Key fundamentals
Latest Revenue$1.00B
Revenue Growth YoY+21.9%
Revenue CAGR (3yr)+33.3%
Net Margin-45.0%
Free Cash Flow$75.9M
Return on Equity-31.4%
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