Forensic Analysis · Industrials / Manufacturing / Defense · as of Sep 1, 2026
Shimmick Corp (SHIM)
A forensic read on Shimmick Corp 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
-3.0
Distress distance
Clean
Earnings quality
4
Forensic signals
2.6%
Revenue growth
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Shimmick Corp earns an F (Poor — capital at risk) forensic quality grade, and its balance-sheet distress test reads -3.0, 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
-224.7%
FY2026
Return on invested capital.Return on invested capital is -224.7% in the latest fiscal year, against 0% in FY2023 — below its ~9% cost of capital. If that gap persists through the cycle, incremental reinvestment reduces rather than creates value per share.
+15.9%/yr
FY2023–FY2026
Share-count dilution.Diluted share count changed +56% over the last 3 years to FY2026 (+15.9%/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 ~15.9% 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 ~36%.
-$174.5M
FY2023, FY2025, and FY2026
Cash burn vs. reported loss.Over FY2023, FY2025, and FY2026, the company reported a cumulative net loss of $152.9M against operating cash flow of -$174.5M. Cash burn ran heavier than the reported loss — something outside net income (working capital, a cash item not in the P&L) is consuming cash faster than the loss alone implies.
1.1% of rev
FY2026
Stock-based comp load.Stock-based compensation ran 1.1% of revenue in FY2026. 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 14.4% a year, above the level at which the count is a material claim on a stake, and only one year's change is on file — enough to state what a holder gave up, not enough to say whether the rate is climbing or coming down. 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.
Key fundamentals
Latest Revenue$492.8M
Revenue Growth YoY+2.6%
Revenue CAGR (3yr)-11.7%
Net Margin-5.2%
Free Cash Flow-$71.5M
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