Forensic Analysis · Media / Entertainment / Streaming · as of Nov 8, 2026
Webtoon Entertainment Inc. (WBTN)
A forensic read on Webtoon Entertainment Inc. built from its complete SEC filings — financial-health screens, earnings quality, red flags and a price-aware rating. Reproducible math, not opinion.
D · Weak — demands caution
Forensic grade
Safe
Financial health
3.4
Distress distance
Clean
Earnings quality
4
Forensic signals
-26.2%
ROE
2.5%
Revenue growth
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Webtoon Entertainment Inc. earns a D (Weak — demands caution) forensic quality grade, and its balance-sheet distress test reads 3.4, placing it in the Safe zone. 4 forensic signals were flagged in its latest SEC filings, led by return on invested capital.
What the filings flag
-5.8%
FY2025
Return on invested capital.Return on invested capital is -5.8% in the latest fiscal year, against -7.6% in FY2024. After-tax operating profit was ($80M) in FY2024 and ($50M) in FY2025, with operating income at -7.5% of revenue in FY2024 and -4.6% in FY2025. The capital base behind it cannot be compared across FY2024–FY2025: short-term debt and long-term debt are tagged in one of those two fiscal years and not the other, and an untagged line enters this calculation as zero, so any change in the base would be a change in what the filer tagged. FY2024's operating profit carried a $70M goodwill write-off that took about 5.2 points off that year's return, and FY2025's carried a $336M goodwill write-off and a $1M asset write-down that took about 30.5 points off the latest; so, net of each other, the two charges take about 25.3 points off the +1.8-point change across FY2024–FY2025. A non-cash write-down lowers the reported return in the year it lands.
+9.2%/yr
FY2024–FY2025
Share-count dilution.Diluted share count changed +9% over the last 1 year to FY2025 (+9.2%/yr). The count is growing — 119.2M shares in FY2024, 130.2M in FY2025: more stock was issued than repurchased over this window, so aggregate results grew faster than their per-share equivalents. That's ~9.2% 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 ~8%.
3% of rev
FY2025
Stock-based comp load.Stock-based compensation ran 3% of revenue and 1165% of free cash flow in FY2025 — about $0.32 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 9.2% a year across FY2024–FY2025, 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.
$405M
FY2024–FY2025
Goodwill impairments.Took $405M of goodwill writedowns across 2 years (FY2024 ($70M), FY2025 ($336M)). Writedowns mean past acquisitions underperformed what was paid for them.
Key fundamentals
Latest Revenue$1.38B
Revenue Growth YoY+2.5%
Net Margin-25.0%
Free Cash Flow$3.6M
Return on Equity-26.2%
Debt / Equity0.00x
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