Antero Midstream Corp

AMdata completeness 88%11 fiscal years on file
The thesis, from the filings

Antero Midstream Corp earns about 3% 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 $7.99 and $82.75 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$898.2M1$920M2$1.04B3$1.11B3$1.19B3
Net income$331.6M4$326.2M5$371.8M6$400.9M6$413.2M6
Operating cash flow$709.8M7$699.6M8$779.1M9$844M9$932.5M9
Capital expenditure$216.7M10$266,00011$70M11
Free cash flow (derived)$482.9M8$778.8M9$774M9
Total debt$6.25B12$6.72B13$6.43B14$6.23B15$6.45B15
Cash & equivalents$66,00016$180.4M17
Diluted shares479.7M480.3M482.4M485.2M482.2M

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
$40.9
your share of equity
Profit it earned you last year
$8.57
Free cash flow it threw off
Debt you’d be carrying
$133.67

10 shares is a claim on $40.9 of net worth that earned you $8.57 last year, against $133.67 of debt.

iii. Is this a good business?
Moat signal · return on invested capital
3% avg · 5y
FY21 2%FY22 2%FY23 2%FY24 5%FY25 5%

It earned about 3% 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. Total debt has held roughly steady.

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 $7.99 and $82.75 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
$82.75
assumptions (10)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • terminalGrowth2.5%
  • projectionYears10
  • fcfGrowth20.0%
  • fcfBase$774M
DCF · Growth Exit 5Y
$39.34
assumptions (10)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • terminalGrowth2.5%
  • projectionYears5
  • fcfGrowth20.0%
  • fcfBase$774M
Earnings Power Value
$7.99
assumptions (8)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • normalizedEarnings$371.8M
  • growthAssumed0.0%
Graham Number
$8.9
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 $39.34
The three cases
Bear0.0%$9.94
Base20.0%$39.34
Bull20.0%$39.34

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 0001558370-24-001161 (Revenues)
  2. 10-K · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001558370-25-000862 (Revenues)
  3. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001104659-26-013380 (Revenues)
  4. 10-K · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0001558370-24-001161 (ProfitLoss)
  5. 10-K · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001558370-25-000862 (ProfitLoss)
  6. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001104659-26-013380 (ProfitLoss)
  7. 10-K · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0001558370-24-001161 (NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities)
  8. 10-K · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001558370-25-000862 (NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities)
  9. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001104659-26-013380 (NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities)
  10. 10-K · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001558370-25-000862 (PaymentsToAcquireProductiveAssets)
  11. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001104659-26-013380 (PaymentsToAcquireProductiveAssets)
  12. 10-K · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0001558370-23-001377 (LongTermDebtNoncurrent)
  13. 10-K · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001558370-24-001161 (LongTermDebtNoncurrent)
  14. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001558370-25-000862 (LongTermDebtNoncurrent)
  15. 10-K · period ending 2024-12-31 · accession 0001104659-26-013380 (LongTermDebtNoncurrent)
  16. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001558370-25-000862 (CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue)
  17. 10-K · period ending 2025-12-31 · accession 0001104659-26-013380 (CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue)