A forensic read on Skyworks Solutions, Inc. built from its complete SEC filings — financial-health screens, earnings quality, red flags and a price-aware rating. Reproducible math, not opinion.
B · Sound & dependable
Forensic grade
Safe
Financial health
7.0
Distress distance
Clean
Earnings quality
2
Forensic signals
7.9%
ROE
-2.2%
Revenue growth
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Skyworks Solutions, Inc. earns a B (Sound & dependable) forensic quality grade, and its balance-sheet distress test reads 7.0, placing it in the Safe zone. 2 forensic signals were flagged in its latest SEC filings, led by return on invested capital.
What the filings flag
7.4%
FY2025
Return on invested capital.Return on invested capital is 7.4% in the latest fiscal year and slipping across FY2023–FY2025 from 14.4%. After-tax operating profit was $1.0B in FY2023 and $450M in FY2025, with operating income at 23.6% of revenue in FY2023, 15.3% in FY2024 and 12.2% in FY2025. The capital base behind it came down -13% across FY2023–FY2025, from $7.1B to $6.1B, so this return is struck on a smaller base than it started on. FY2024's operating profit carried a $150M restructuring charge and a $148M asset write-down that alone took about 4.0 points off that year's return; FY2024 sits between the two ends of FY2023–FY2025, so the charge shapes the path between them without moving the change across it. A non-cash write-down lowers the reported return in the year it lands.
114% of FCF
FY2025
Shareholder returns.Returned $1.3B to shareholders (buybacks + dividends) in FY2025 — 114% of free cash flow. That is $157M (14%) more than free cash flow covered. The balance sheet covered it: cash, short-term investments and long-term marketable securities fell $186M and total debt rose $2M over FY2025. A payout past free cash flow draws the balance sheet down in every year it continues, which isn't sustainable indefinitely. Counting the $232M of stock-based comp paid out in shares on top of that, the combined claim on free cash flow is 135%.
Key fundamentals
Latest Revenue$4.09B
Revenue Growth YoY-2.2%
Revenue CAGR (2yr)-7.5%
Net Margin11.7%
Free Cash Flow$1.11B
Return on Equity7.9%
Debt / Equity0.17x
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