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Held by 192 of 2,417 reporting institutions (94th percentile) — extremely crowded.
Data as of Q3 2026
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Total shares institutions bought (green) vs sold (red) each quarter across all holders.
Inferred from quarter-over-quarter change in each fund's 13F position (new stakes count as buys, exits as sells). Not tick-level trades.
Total return (dividends reinvested) vs the market, from quarter-end prices.
Above 0 = ahead of the S&P 500 since the window start; below 0 = behind. Rising means it's pulling ahead.
How far the stock fell below its prior peak. Deeper, longer drawdowns = a rougher ride to the same return.
Quarter-end, dividend-adjusted (total return). Beta & volatility from quarterly returns (annualized). Benchmark is the S&P 500 (SPY total return). Annual returns compound the quarters ending in each calendar year; the first and last years in a window may be partial. Past performance doesn't predict future results.
Last reported position per insider, carried forward. Steps can be a holding disclosed for the first time rather than a trade.
| Date | Insider | What it was | Shares | Price | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-26 | Howard Kevin D EVP/INTERIM CFO/CAO/Controller | Grant | 2,391 | $0.00 | — |
| 2026-09-01 | 3 co-filers Chief Operating Officer | Grant | 347,078 | $0.00 | — |
| 2026-09-01 | 3 co-filers Chief Operating Officer | Grant | 76,466 | $0.00 | — |
| 2026-09-01 | 3 co-filers Chief Operating Officer | Grant |
Every row is classified by what it MEANT, not by its SEC code. A code is not a meaning: code P (“purchase”) also covers dividend reinvestment and employee stock purchase plans, and code S (“sale”) also covers 10b5-1 plan sales scheduled months earlier and option exercises sold the same day.
Across 30 days of all filings, $5.08bn of insider selling contained $3.50bn of plan sales and $0.46bn of exercise-and-sell. Only 29% was discretionary. Reading an unclassified feed badly overstates how much insiders decided.
Buys and sales are counted separately and never netted. They are different decisions by different people; a company where one officer bought while another sold is not “neutral”.
The holding line carries each insider's last reported position forward, so it shows the total held rather than a sawtooth of whoever traded that day. It covers only insiders who filed in the window.
“Filed late” counts calendar days past the two-business-day deadline with five days' grace, so a Thursday or Friday trade crossing a weekend is never flagged. It describes the company's filing discipline, not the trade.
Insider activity is descriptive. Nothing here is investment advice.
| 13,333 |
| $0.00 |
| — |
| 2026-08-20 | 2 co-filers President-Product & Technology | Grant | 151,872 | $0.00 | — |
| 2026-08-20 | 2 co-filers EVP, Chief Commercial Officer | Grant | 54,932 | $0.00 | — |
| 2026-08-20 | 2 co-filers EVP/Gen Counsel/Corp Secretary | Grant | 51,701 | $0.00 | — |
| 2026-08-20 | 2 co-filers Chief Financial Officer | Grant | 96,939 | $0.00 | — |
| 2026-08-20 | 2 co-filers President and CEO | Grant | 297,281 | $0.00 | — |
| 2026-08-20 | 2 co-filers EVP/CAO/Controller | Grant | 22,619 | $0.00 | — |
| 2026-08-20 | 2 co-filers Chief Financial Officer | Grant | 37,652 | $0.00 | — |
| 2026-08-20 | 2 co-filers President-Product & Technology | Grant | 58,988 | $0.00 | — |
| 2026-08-20 | 2 co-filers President and CEO | Grant | 115,466 | $0.00 | — |
| 2026-08-20 | 2 co-filers EVP/CAO/Controller | Grant | 8,785 | $0.00 | — |
| 2026-08-20 | 2 co-filers EVP/Gen Counsel/Corp Secretary | Grant | 20,081 | $0.00 | — |
| 2026-08-20 | 2 co-filers EVP, Chief Commercial Officer | Grant | 21,336 | $0.00 | — |
| 2026-08-19 | 2 co-filers Group filing | Grant | 1,009 | $0.00 | $0 |
| 2026-08-19 | 2 co-filers Group filing | Grant | 1,681 | $0.00 | $0 |
| 2026-08-19 | Liberty Broadband Corp Director | Otherindirect | 38,583,663 | — | — |
| 2026-08-19 | 2 co-filers Group filing | Grant | 1,009 | $0.00 | $0 |
| 2026-08-19 | 2 co-filers Group filing | Grant | 538 | $0.00 | $0 |
| 2026-08-19 | 2 co-filers Group filing | Grant | 538 | $0.00 | $0 |
| 2026-08-19 | 2 co-filers Group filing | Grant | 538 | $0.00 | $0 |
| 2026-08-13 | Liberty Broadband Corp Director | Otherindirect | 9,900 | $133.86 | $1.3m |
| 2026-07-27 | 2 co-filers EVP/CAO/Controller | Grant | 901 | $0.00 | — |
| 2026-07-27 | 2 co-filers EVP/CAO/Controller | Grant | 234 | $0.00 | — |
| 2026-07-14 | Liberty Broadband Corp Director | Otherindirect | 129,907 | $135.88 | $17.7m |
| 2026-06-11 | Liberty Broadband Corp Director | Otherindirect | 31,315 | $162.86 | $5.1m |
| 2026-05-27 | 3 co-filers Group filing | Open-market saleindirect | 9,100 | $146.96 | $1.3m |
| 2026-05-27 | 3 co-filers Group filing | Open-market saleindirect | 9,100 | $146.92 | $1.3m |
| 2026-05-26 | 3 co-filers Group filing | Open-market sale | 69,633 | $144.45 | $10.1m |
| 2026-05-15 | 2 co-filers EVP/Gen Counsel/Corp Secretary | Grant | 8,972 | $0.00 | — |
| 2026-05-15 | Ramos Mauricio Director | Open-market buy | 9,929 | $140.93 | $1.4m |
| 2026-05-15 | 2 co-filers EVP/Gen Counsel/Corp Secretary | Grant | 1,150 | $0.00 | — |
| 2026-05-12 | Liberty Broadband Corp Director | Otherindirect | 1,262,078 | $204.33 | $257.9m |
| 2026-04-28 | Nair Balan Director | Open-market buy | 1,000 | $175.46 | $175k |
| 2026-04-28 | Davis Wade Director | Open-market buy | 5,728 | $173.72 | $995k |
| 2026-04-28 | 2 co-filers President and CEO | Open-market buy | 3,468 | $172.23 | $597k |
| 2026-04-28 | 2 co-filers President and CEO | Open-market buyindirect | 3,468 | $172.23 | $597k |
| 2026-04-21 | Slaski Carolyn J Director | Grant | 918 | $0.00 | $0 |
Solve the discounted cash flow backwards, then stress-test the assumptions.
Average free cash flow across the last 3 positive fiscal years (FY2023, FY2024, FY2025). Smooths the cycle. Stock compensation is NOT charged — it is added back inside operating cash flow.
To be worth $111.49 today, the market must believe free cash flow compounds 13.0%/yr for a decade (off $3.63B on the 3-yr avg basis).
On the basis ($2.96B) the requirement is 15.8%/yr. Shares issued to employees are added back in operating cash flow, so this basis treats them as free.
The market's 13.0% is more optimistic than its 9-yr track record.
Default is 10.0% — this company's computed cost of capital (published default — this company's cost of capital could not be computed), the same rate the Analysis tab discounts at.
2-stage DCF · 0.11B shares (market data) · net debt $94.28B
mean 12.2% · volatility σ 40% · implied rate exceeded in 5/9 yrs
Central path = implied 13.0%/yr growth; shaded band = ±1σ (40%) of this company's historical FCF volatility, widening with time. The wider the band, the less certain the growth.
Reverse DCF: rather than guessing a fair value, we solve for the growth the current price implies, then you stress-test the assumptions. Enterprise value of the FCF stream, less net debt, ÷ shares. Educational — not a recommendation.
Top 40 institutional holders — bubble size is position value, color is the move since last quarter. Hover any holder for detail.
Drag any bubble to rearrange · size = dollar value of the position
Ranked against 36 sector peers with collected financials. Valuation from latest close × latest fiscal-year fundamentals; 13F conviction as of 2026-09-30.
Percentile is “goodness” within the peer set (100 = best). For valuation and leverage that means cheaper / less-levered ranks higher.
| Company | Mkt cap ▼ | P/E | EV/EBITDA | P/S | Rev gr | Gross | Net | ROE | ROIC | Net D/EBITDA | 13F |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CCZ | $238.6B | 12.0× | 8.9× | 1.9× | -0.0% | — | 16.2% | 20.6% | 10.2% | 2.4× | — |
| VZ | $185.4B | 11.0× | 6.9× | 1.3× | 2.5% | — | 12.4% | 16.2% | 7.0% | 2.7× | 1,167 |
| TMUS | $165.7B | 16.1× | 7.8× | 1.9× | 8.5% | — | 12.4% | 18.6% | 7.6% | 2.5× | 487 |
| T | $144.2B | 7.0× | 6.0× | 1.1× | 2.7% | — | 17.5% | 17.4% | 8.1% | 2.8× | 1,004 |
| WBD | $77.6B | 106.7× | 16.5× | 2.1× | -5.1% | — | 1.9% | 2.0% | 1.1% | 4.4× | 367 |
| ROKU | $23.0B | 262.9× | — | 4.9× | 15.2% | 43.8% | 1.9% | 3.3% | 3.3% | — | 179 |
| CHTR | $12.8B | 3.1× | 5.1× | 0.2× | -0.6% | — | 9.1% | 31.1% | 4.5% | 4.5× | 192 |
| GSAT | $10.7B | — | 114.4× | 39.1× | 9.0% | — | -3.2% | -2.4% | -1.0% | 0.4× | 56 |
| VSAT | $10.6B | — | 7.8× | 2.3× | 2.7% | — | -0.7% | -0.7% | -0.7% | -1.5× | 106 |
| SIRI | $9.8B | 13.0× | 10.2× | 1.1× | -1.6% | 52.4% | 9.4% | 7.0% | 3.8% | 5.1× | 148 |
| NXST | $5.3B | 57.1× | 8.6× | 1.1× | -8.5% | — | 2.2% | 5.3% | 1.3% | 4.6× | 108 |
| LUMN | $5.0B | — | 2.1× | 0.4× | -5.4% | 46.5% | -14.0% | 156% | 156% | -0.5× | 144 |
| IRDM | $4.8B | 42.4× | 14.4× | 5.5× | 4.9% | — | 13.1% | 24.7% | 5.1% | 3.7× | 104 |
| TDS | $3.9B | — | 15.4× | 3.2× | -5.3% | — | -0.5% | -0.1% | -0.1% | -3.7× | 63 |
| AD | $2.8B | 58.7× | — | 17.4× | 58.3% | 51.2% | 29.9% | 1.9% | 1.9% | — | 20 |
| LBTYA | $2.7B | — | — | 0.5× | 12.4% | 65.8% | -146% | -73.3% | -39.0% | — | — |
| ADEA | $2.4B | 21.7× | 15.3× | 5.3× | 17.9% | — | 25.1% | 23.1% | 12.4% | 1.9× | 57 |
| CALX | $2.3B | 141.6× | 56.2× | 2.3× | 20.3% | 56.8% | 1.8% | 2.1% | 2.1% | -3.7× | 49 |
| IDT | $2.0B | 23.7× | 12.7× | 1.6× | 5.4% | 38.3% | 6.7% | 23.0% | 23.0% | -1.6× | 30 |
| ZD | $1.9B | 47.6× | 5.3× | 1.3× | 3.5% | 85.8% | 3.3% | 2.7% | 1.8% | 0.7× | 53 |
| LILA | $1.7B | — | 9.4× | 0.4× | -0.1% | 78.0% | -13.8% | -110% | -6.6% | 7.8× | — |
| UNIT | $1.2B | 1.0× | 13.7× | 0.6× | 91.5% | — | 58.4% | 343% | 13.2% | 12.1× | 57 |
| NMAX | $1.0B | — | — | 5.5× | 10.7% | 39.3% | -52.6% | -93.8% | -93.8% | — | 52 |
| SBGI | $926M | — | 10.5× | 0.3× | -10.7% | — | -3.5% | -25.3% | -2.3% | 8.3× | 29 |
| SHEN | $563M | — | 10.9× | 1.6× | 9.1% | — | -9.2% | -3.7% | -2.2% | 5.7× | 23 |
Peers = companies sharing CHTR's sector (Cable & Other Pay Television Services) with collected SEC financials. Multiples use the most recent end-of-day close and latest fiscal-year fundamentals (trailing, not forward). Missing cells mean the peer never reported that line item, has no collected price, or has a non-positive denominator. Not investment advice.
What the company returns to shareholders — and whether it's covered by cash.
No dividend to cover. Last year: $0 dividends + $5.13B buybacks = $5.13B returned on $4.42B FCF.
Yields use the latest fiscal-year dividends/buybacks over current market cap. Dividends and buybacks from the SEC cash-flow statement; payout coverage vs net income and free cash flow. Educational — not a recommendation.
How management deployed cash over 10 years — and what it earned on reinvestment.
A balanced mix of reinvestment and shareholder returns.
Modest payoff on reinvested capital. Current ROIC on all capital: 5%. Rough measure (includes maintenance capex).
Cash uses aggregated from the SEC cash-flow statement over 10 fiscal years. "Return on reinvestment" is a rough proxy — operating-income change ÷ cumulative CapEx + M&A — and includes maintenance capex. Educational — not a recommendation.
EOD close · as of 2026-10-30
How a revenue dollar becomes profit — FY2025
Dividends and buybacks are cash paid out, shown here against the same year's profit for scale — not funded from it. This year they exceeded net income, so the ribbons are capped at earnings and understate what was actually returned.
Each value shows its share of revenue below it (common-size).
| Line Item | FY2025 | FY2024 | FY2023 | FY2022 | FY2021 | FY2020 | FY2019 | FY2018 | FY2017 | FY2016 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | $54.77B 100.0% | $55.09B 100.0% | $54.61B 100.0% | $54.02B 100.0% | $51.68B 100.0% | $48.10B 100.0% | $45.76B 100.0% | $43.63B 100.0% | $41.58B 100.0% | $29.00B 100.0% |
| Selling, General & Admin | $3.78B 6.9% | $3.59B 6.5% | $3.47B 6.4% | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Total Operating Expenses | $32.74B 59.8% | $33.17B 60.2% | $33.41B 61.2% | $32.88B 60.9% | $31.48B 60.9% | $29.93B 62.2% | $29.22B 63.9% | $27.86B 63.8% | $26.54B 63.8% | $18.66B 64.3% |
| Operating Income | $12.91B 23.6% | $13.12B 23.8% | $12.56B 23.0% | $11.96B 22.1% | $10.53B 20.4% | $8.40B 17.5% | $6.51B 14.2% | $5.22B 12.0% | $4.11B 9.9% | $2.46B 8.5% |
| Other Income (Expense), net | -$408.0M -0.7% | -$387.0M -0.7% | -$517.0M -0.9% | $56.0M 0.1% | -$101.0M -0.2% | -$255.0M -0.5% | -$283.0M -0.6% | -$3.54B -8.1% | -$3.08B -7.4% | -$1.64B -5.6% |
| Pretax Income | $7.46B 13.6% | $7.50B 13.6% | $6.85B 12.6% | $7.46B 13.8% | $6.39B 12.4% | $4.30B 8.9% | $2.43B 5.3% | $1.69B 3.9% | $1.03B 2.5% | $820.0M 2.8% |
| Income Tax Expense | $1.69B 3.1% | $1.65B 3.0% | $1.59B 2.9% | $1.61B 3.0% | $1.07B 2.1% | $626.0M 1.3% | $439.0M 1.0% | $180.0M 0.4% | -$9.09B -21.9% | -$2.92B -10.1% |
| Net Income | $4.99B 9.1% | $5.08B 9.2% | $4.56B 8.3% | $5.05B 9.4% | $4.65B 9.0% | $3.22B 6.7% | $1.67B 3.6% | $1.23B 2.8% | $9.89B 23.8% | $3.52B 12.1% |
| Per Share | ||||||||||
| EPS (Basic) | $36.90 | $35.53 | $30.54 | $31.30 | $25.34 | $15.85 | $7.60 | $5.29 | $38.55 | $17.05 |
| EPS (Diluted) | $36.21 | $34.97 | $29.99 | $30.74 | $24.47 | $15.40 | $7.45 | $5.22 | $34.09 | $15.94 |
| Weighted Avg Shares (Basic) | 135.2M | 143.1M | 149.2M | 161.5M | 183.7M | 203.3M | 219.5M | 232.4M | 256.7M | 206.5M |
| Weighted Avg Shares (Diluted) | 137.7M | 145.4M | 152.0M | 164.4M | 193.0M | 209.3M | 223.8M | 235.5M | 296.7M | 234.8M |
Source: SEC EDGAR XBRL filings (annual, fiscal year). Quarterly flow items are derived from cumulative filings; balance-sheet figures are as-of each period end. Ratios and margins are computed, not reported.
EOD close · as of 2026-10-30
Where each multiple sits in its own 14-yr range · 0th pct blended
Dot = today · shaded = middle 50% · line = median. Lower percentile = cheaper vs its own 14-yr history.
Is the profit real, and how strong is the balance sheet?
FY2025 · every deduction from revenue to net income
DuPont — the three levers
ROE 31% against ROIC 5% — 27% of the return on equity comes from leverage and buybacks rather than from the operating business.
What the company owes vs. what it holds
This shows debt/cash structure and net leverage. The year-by-year maturity schedule is on the Debt & Leverage tab.
Latest year: profit growth vs revenue growth
High operating leverage: profit moved 2.8× as fast as sales — great in an upturn, painful in a downturn.
Each line as % of revenue — the trend in color
| % of revenue | FY2018 | FY2019 | FY2020 | FY2021 | FY2022 | FY2023 | FY2024 | FY2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SG&A | — | — | — | — | — | 6.4 | 6.5 | 6.9 |
| Operating Income | 12.0 | 14.2 | 17.5 | 20.4 | 22.1 | 23.0 | 23.8 | 23.6 |
| Income Tax | 0.4 | 1.0 | 1.3 | 2.1 | 3.0 | 2.9 | 3.0 | 3.1 |
| Net Income | 2.8 | 3.6 | 6.7 | 9.0 | 9.4 | 8.3 | 9.2 | 9.1 |
Green = margin-favorable vs the row's own range · red = unfavorable.
The metrics that matter, over time
A 30-second read on CHTR: price, valuation and headline fundamentals from SEC filings. The four questions at the top of the page are where the judgements live.
How much the company owes, how it's trended, and how comfortably it's serviced.
Cash of $477.0M is below the $1.05B due within a year — relies on refinancing or operating cash flow. Scheduled principal only (excludes interest & revolver draws). As of 2025-12-31 (10-K).
Green ≤ 1.5× · amber ≤ 3× · red > 3× (leverage relative to cash earnings).
Interest expense isn't separately reported — often netted into “other income (expense), net.”
Cash of $477.0M is below short-term debt of $750.0M — relies on refinancing/operations.
Mostly long-term debt (balance-sheet current vs non-current split). See the maturity ladder above for the year-by-year repayment schedule.
Debt, cash, interest and equity from the SEC balance sheet & income statement. Effective rate = interest ÷ average debt. Maturity ladder from the SEC long-term-debt repayment schedule. Educational — not a recommendation.
Earns 7.93pts above its cost of capital, positive in 5 of the last 5 years.
| Period | ROIC | Cost of capital | Spread |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2019 | 4.6% | 1.1% (today's — no rate published for this year) | 3.5pts |
| FY2020 | 6.0% | 1.1% (today's — no rate published for this year) | 5.0pts |
| FY2021 | 7.6% | 1.1% (today's — no rate published for this year) | 6.5pts |
| FY2022 | 8.6% | 1.1% (today's — no rate published for this year) | 7.5pts |
| FY2023 | 8.8% | 1.1% (today's — no rate published for this year) | 7.7pts |
| FY2024 | 9.2% | 1.1% (today's — no rate published for this year) | 8.1pts |
| FY2025 | 8.9% | 1.1% (today's — no rate published for this year) | 7.8pts |
| Now | 4.5% | 1.1% | 3.4pts |
| Fiscal year | Gross margin | Operating margin | Net margin |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2016 | not reported | 8.5% | 12.1% |
| FY2017 | not reported | 9.9% | 23.8% |
| FY2018 | not reported | 12.0% | 2.8% |
| FY2019 | not reported | 14.2% | 3.6% |
| FY2020 | not reported | 17.5% | 6.7% |
| FY2021 | not reported | 20.4% | 9.0% |
| FY2022 | not reported | 22.1% | 9.4% |
| FY2023 | not reported | 23.0% | 8.3% |
| FY2024 | not reported | 23.8% | 9.2% |
| FY2025 | not reported | 23.6% | 9.1% |
Leverage and buybacks account for 27 points of the 31% return on equity in FY2025. The business earns 5% on the capital it employs; the rest is balance sheet.
ROE is on average equity; ROIC is NOPAT over average invested capital (debt plus equity less excess cash). The gap is not a single adjustment.
$29.7B of goodwill — 27% of invested capital. The gap is what was paid above the fair value of what was bought; it is real capital shareholders provided, so neither bar is the whole answer.
ROIC ex-goodwill is 12.28% against 9.0% reported — the return is earned on a capital base inflated by what was paid for acquisitions, not by the operating business alone.
Converts 1.04x of reported profit into free cash flow over 5 years, with accruals negative.
Reported free cash flow is $4.42B; after share-based compensation it is $3.75B. The difference is a real cost that the cash flow statement adds back.
Debt is present but there is no positive EBITDA or no reported interest expense, so coverage cannot be measured.
Ladder as of 2025-12-31 (10-K); cash from the 2025-12-31 balance sheet; FCF from FY2025.
Balance sheet at 2025-12-31. Undrawn revolving credit is not shown: the tag is collected but not yet mapped through to the API.
No material counter-signal in the checked set: net debt / EBITDA, interest coverage, stressed coverage, maturity schedule vs cash and one year of FCF, liquidity ratios.
Missing from our data, so excluded from this answer: interest_expense.
At $111.49, free cash flow must compound 13.16%/yr for 10 years. It has done -0.5%/yr over 6 years.
| Fiscal year | FCF growth | Price requires |
|---|---|---|
| FY2020 | 57.0% | 13.2% |
| FY2021 | 20.4% | 13.2% |
| FY2022 | −35.5% | 13.2% |
| FY2023 | −40.2% | 13.2% |
| FY2024 | −4.7% | 13.2% |
| FY2025 | 39.8% | 13.2% |
The cost of capital could not be computed for this company, so the requirement is solved at the published 10% default — a different rate would move it materially.
| Step | Amount | Running total |
|---|---|---|
| Net income | $4.99B | $4.99B |
| Share-based comp | $673M | $5.66B |
| Other non-cash & working capital | $10.42B | $16.08B |
| Operating cash flow | $16.08B | $16.08B |
| Capex | −$11.66B | $4.42B |
| Free cash flow | $4.42B | $4.42B |
| FCF after SBC | $3.75B | $3.75B |
| Fiscal year | Revenue growth | Receivables growth | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2020 | 5.1% | 14.0% | 8.9 points |
| FY2021 | 7.5% | 1.6% | -5.9 points |
| FY2022 | 4.5% | 13.3% | 8.7 points |
| FY2023 | 1.1% | 1.5% | 0.4 points |
| FY2024 | 0.9% | 4.5% | 3.6 points |
| FY2025 | -0.6% | 18.8% | 19.4 points |
| Fiscal year | DSO | DIO | DPO | Cash conversion cycle |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2019 | 17.8 days | not reported | not reported | not reported |
| FY2020 | 19.3 days | not reported | not reported | not reported |
| FY2021 | 18.2 days | not reported | not reported | not reported |
| FY2022 | 19.7 days | not reported | not reported | not reported |
| FY2023 | 19.8 days | not reported | not reported | not reported |
| FY2024 | 20.5 days | not reported | not reported | not reported |
| FY2025 | 24.5 days | not reported | not reported | not reported |
| Fiscal year | Accruals / assets |
|---|---|
| FY2019 | -6.8 percent |
| FY2020 | -7.9 percent |
| FY2021 | -8.1 percent |
| FY2022 | -6.8 percent |
| FY2023 | -6.7 percent |
| FY2024 | -6.2 percent |
| FY2025 | -7.2 percent |
Below the line, the asset base is being consumed faster than it is replaced.
Depreciation here includes amortisation of acquired intangibles — goodwill written down over time, customer lists, acquired technology. Capex does not replace those and is not meant to, so an acquisitive or asset-light company sits below 1.0 permanently and correctly. The signal is cleanest for capital-intensive businesses, where the two measure the same physical base. For that reason this informs the earnings-quality verdict but never caps it.
SBC is added back inside operating cash flow, so reported free cash flow treats shares issued to employees as free. Percent of revenue says how expensive the payroll is; percent of operating cash flow says how much of the cash exists only because the charge was added back. The buyback offset is buybacks over SBC — below 1.0 the repurchase does not cover the shares issued.
Figures are the latest fiscal year (FY2025) from the company's own filings, not a trailing-twelve-month window — Q2 reads fiscal years throughout so the cash-conversion ratios and these share one basis. A blank is a line the filer did not report; it is never read as zero.