Forensic Analysis · Professional & Commercial Services · as of Aug 13, 2026
Comscore, Inc. (SCOR)
A forensic read on Comscore, 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
-11.2
Distress distance
Clean
Earnings quality
4
Forensic signals
-9.0%
ROE
0.4%
Revenue growth
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Comscore, Inc. earns an F (Poor — capital at risk) forensic quality grade, and its balance-sheet distress test reads -11.2, 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). 4 forensic signals were flagged in its latest SEC filings, led by return on invested capital.
What the filings flag
1.4%
FY2025
Return on invested capital.Return on invested capital is 1.4% in the latest fiscal year and rising from -15% — well below its ~10% cost of capital, and it has been across FY2011–FY2025, so reinvested dollars have not been earning their keep.
+4.6%/yr
FY2022–FY2025
Share-count dilution.Diluted share count changed +15% over the last 3 years to FY2025 (+4.6%/yr). The count is growing: more stock was issued than repurchased over this window, so aggregate results grew faster than their per-share equivalents. Note: the share count shows a large one-time jump around FY2021, consistent with a reverse split or bankruptcy reorg rather than gradual buybacks, so the earlier shrinkage doesn't reflect real repurchase discipline. That's ~4.6% 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 ~13%.
0.7% of rev
FY2025
Stock-based comp load.Stock-based compensation ran 0.7% of revenue and 12% of free cash flow in FY2025 — about $0.50 per diluted share. No cash left the business to pay it, which is why operating cash flow adds it back. Net of repurchases the diluted count still rose about 4.6% a year and that rate is not falling, so total profit has to grow by that much annually before any of it reaches a share. Stock compensation is one source of that issuance; acquisition consideration, equity raises, convertibles and other employee plans also net into the count, and these figures do not separate them.
$412M
FY2019–FY2024
Goodwill impairments.Took $412M of goodwill writedowns across 4 years (FY2022 ($46M), FY2023 ($78M), FY2024 ($63M)). Writedowns mean past acquisitions underperformed what was paid for them.
Key fundamentals
Latest Revenue$357.5M
Revenue Growth YoY+0.4%
Revenue CAGR (3yr)-1.7%
Net Margin-2.8%
Free Cash Flow$21.8M
Return on Equity-9.0%
Debt / Equity0.39x
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