Arcosa, Inc.

ACAdata completeness 88%10 fiscal years on file

Data notes: no data for concept 'totalDebt'

The thesis, from the filings

Arcosa, Inc. earns about 8% on invested capital, below its ~9% cost of capital, with a roughly flat share count — no moat visible in the numbers. The estimate methods put fair value between $33.67 and $217.99 a share.Whether it’s worth owning at today’s price is the last question — and yours to answer, below.

i. The business — what you’d actually own
FigureFY 2021FY 2022FY 2023FY 2024FY 2025
Revenue$2.04B1$2.24B2$2.31B3$2.57B3$2.88B3
Net income$69.6M4$245.8M5$159.2M6$93.7M6$208.4M6
Operating cash flow$166.5M7$174.3M8$261M9$502M9$341.1M9
Capital expenditure$85.1M10$138M11$203.5M12$189.7M12$165.6M12
Free cash flow (derived)$81.4M7$36.3M8$57.5M9$312.3M9$175.5M9
Total debt
Cash & equivalents$72.9M13$160.4M14$104.8M15$187.3M16$214.6M16
Diluted shares48.6M48.5M48.7M48.8M49.0M

Superscripts are receipts. Each links to the SEC filing the number came from (full list at the bottom).

ii. Your slice — ownership made literal
If you owned
shares
Net assets behind them
$539.06
your share of equity
Profit it earned you last year
$42.53
Free cash flow it threw off
$35.82
Debt you’d be carrying

10 shares is a claim on $539.06 of net worth that earned you $42.53 and generated $35.82 of cash last year.

iii. Is this a good business?
Moat signal · return on invested capital
8% avg · 5y
FY21 5%FY22 13%FY23 8%FY24 4%FY25 9%

It earned about 8% on invested capital against a ~9% cost of capital — below the cost of funding. The numbers show no moat.

seeing a moat in the numbers →
Management signal · capital allocation
+1% shares · 5y

Share count is roughly flat over 5 years — little dilution, little buyback.

reading capital allocation →

Signals, not verdicts — read from the filings above. Numbers don’t prove a moat; they show its footprint. You decide.

iv. What it’s worth — engine v0.1.0

The 3 estimate methods that apply put fair value between $33.67 and $217.99 a share. They rest on different assumptions, so where they diverge is the story; the Graham Number is a stricter floor, not a target.

DCF · Growth Exit 10Y
$217.99
assumptions (10)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • terminalGrowth2.5%
  • projectionYears10
  • fcfGrowth20.0%
  • fcfBase$175.5M
DCF · Growth Exit 5Y
$121.15
assumptions (10)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • terminalGrowth2.5%
  • projectionYears5
  • fcfGrowth20.0%
  • fcfBase$175.5M
Earnings Power Value
$33.67
assumptions (8)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • normalizedEarnings$159.2M
  • growthAssumed0.0%
Graham Number
$71.71
assumptions (1)
  • grahamMultiplier2250.0%

Different models answer different questions — which to trust when →

v. The price question — last, on purpose
Is today’s price fair?
See live price ↗
Type a price. The ledger answers.
Or set your own belief
FCF growth, next 5 years20.0%
Discount rate (WACC)8.93%
Terminal growth2.5%
At your growth, a share is worth $121.15
The three cases
Bear0.0%$55.55
Base20.0%$121.15
Bull20.0%$121.15

Bear/base/bull growth = 0% / filed history / history + 5pp. Type a price to see the return each case implies.

Default growth 20.0%= this company’s own filed history (median-to-median FCF CAGR, clamped 0–20%). Your adjustments are recorded anonymously. They become the “what do owners actually believe” dataset.

Sources — the receipts
  1. 10-K · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0001739445-24-000012 (Revenues)
  2. 10-K · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001739445-25-000026 (Revenues)
  3. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001739445-26-000029 (Revenues)
  4. 10-K · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0001739445-24-000012 (NetIncomeLoss)
  5. 10-K · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001739445-25-000026 (NetIncomeLoss)
  6. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001739445-26-000029 (NetIncomeLoss)
  7. 10-K · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0001739445-24-000012 (NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities)
  8. 10-K · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001739445-25-000026 (NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities)
  9. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001739445-26-000029 (NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities)
  10. 10-K · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0001739445-24-000012 (PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment)
  11. 10-K · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001739445-25-000026 (PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment)
  12. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001739445-26-000029 (PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment)
  13. 10-K · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0001739445-23-000018 (CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue)
  14. 10-K · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001739445-24-000012 (CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue)
  15. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001739445-25-000026 (CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue)
  16. 10-K · period ending 2024-12-31 · accession 0001739445-26-000029 (CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue)