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

Trimas Corp (TRS)

A forensic read on Trimas Corp 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

3.6

Distress distance

Clean

Earnings quality

Forensic signals

1.8

P / E (ttm)

17.0%

ROE

$1.4B

Market cap

0.40%

Dividend yield

2.4%

Revenue growth

This free snapshot doesn't read filing or proxy text, so the auditor-quality and governance checks that can lower a grade were not evaluated (red flags, auditor quality, say on pay, board independence). Those checks only ever lower a grade, so the full analysis can land below the grade above but never above it — treat it as the most favourable reading, not the settled one.

Trimas Corp earns a C (Mixed — selective) forensic quality grade, and its balance-sheet distress test reads 3.6, placing it in the Safe zone. 3 forensic signals were flagged in its latest SEC filings, led by return on invested capital.

What the filings flag

2.9%

FY2025

Return on invested capital. Return on invested capital is 2.9% in the latest fiscal year and slipping from 7% — well below its ~9% cost of capital, so reinvested dollars may be destroying value, not building it.

159% of FCF

FY2025

Shareholder returns. Returned $110M to shareholders (buybacks + dividends) in FY2025 — 159% 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 $12M of stock-based comp paid out in shares on top of that, the combined claim on free cash flow is 176%.

$127M

FY2020–FY2020

Goodwill impairments. Took $127M of goodwill writedowns across 1 year (FY2020 ($127M)). Writedowns mean past acquisitions underperformed what was paid for them.

Key fundamentals

Latest Revenue$645.7M

Revenue Growth YoY+2.4%

Revenue CAGR (3yr)-9.9%

Net Margin18.6%

Free Cash Flow$69.1M

Return on Equity17.0%

Debt / Equity0.66x

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