Forensic Analysis · Industrials / Manufacturing / Defense · as of Aug 11, 2026

Standardaero, Inc. (SARO)

A forensic read on Standardaero, Inc. built from its complete SEC filings — financial-health screens, earnings quality, red flags and a price-aware rating. Reproducible math, not opinion.

C · Mixed — selective

Forensic grade

Safe

Financial health

4.0

Distress distance

Clean

Earnings quality

Forensic signals

33.9

P / E (ttm)

10.4%

ROE

$9.4B

Market cap

15.8%

Revenue growth

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Standardaero, Inc. earns a C (Mixed — selective) forensic quality grade, and its balance-sheet distress test reads 4.0, placing it in the Safe zone. 3 forensic signals were flagged in its latest SEC filings, led by share-count dilution.

What the filings flag

+15.4%/yr

FY2024–FY2025

Share-count dilution. Diluted share count changed +15% over the last 1 year to FY2025 (+15.4%/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 ~15.4% 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 FY2024 has been diluted ~13%.

7.7%

FY2025

Return on invested capital. Return on invested capital is 7.7% in the latest fiscal year and rising from 5% — around its ~9% cost of capital, so growth is roughly value-neutral.

0.2% of rev

FY2025

Stock-based comp load. Stock-based compensation ran 0.2% of revenue and 6% of free cash flow in FY2025 — about $0.04 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 15.4% a year, small enough that totals and per-share results tell the same story.

Key fundamentals

Latest Revenue$6.06B

Revenue Growth YoY+15.8%

Net Margin4.6%

Free Cash Flow$234.3M

Return on Equity10.4%

Debt / Equity0.83x

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Data from SEC EDGAR public filings · metrics as of Aug 11, 2026. Forensic signals flag probability, not certainty.