Accelerant Holdings

ARXdata completeness 88%3 fiscal years on file

Data notes: no data for concept 'capex'

The thesis, from the filings

Accelerant Holdings earns about -93% on equity, but has diluted owners by 15% over 3 years — worth asking whether the growth reaches owners. The cash-flow models don't apply cleanly here — the ledger says why below.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 2023FY 2024FY 2025
Revenue$344M1$602.6M1$912.9M1
Net income−$64.1M2$22.9M2−$1.35B2
Operating cash flow$290M3$785.7M3$445.1M3
Capital expenditure
Free cash flow (derived)
Total debt$121.4M4$121.3M4
Cash & equivalents$775.4M5$1.23B5$1.72B5
Diluted shares165.6M199.7M190.3M

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
$36.67
your share of equity
Profit it earned you last year
−$70.7
Free cash flow it threw off
Debt you’d be carrying
$6.38

10 shares is a claim on $36.67 of net worth that earned you −$70.7 last year, against $6.38 of debt.

iii. Is this a good business?
Moat signal · return on equity
-93% avg · 3y
FY23 FY24 8%FY25 -193%

It earned an average -93% on equity over 3 years. Compare that to what it costs to fund the business.

seeing a moat in the numbers →
Management signal · capital allocation
+15% shares · 3y

Share count is up 15% over 3 years — owners have been diluted. Worth asking what they got for it. 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
DCF · Growth Exit 10Y
not applicable
only 0 years of FCF (need ≥3) — model not applicable
DCF · Growth Exit 5Y
not applicable
only 0 years of FCF (need ≥3) — model not applicable
Earnings Power Value
not applicable
normalized (5y-median) earnings non-positive — EPV undefined
Graham Number
not applicable
diluted EPS missing or non-positive — Graham Number undefined

Different models answer different questions — which to trust when →

Sources — the receipts
  1. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001997350-26-000003 (Revenues)
  2. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001997350-26-000003 (ProfitLoss)
  3. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001997350-26-000003 (NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities)
  4. 10-K · period ending 2024-12-31 · accession 0001997350-26-000003 (LongTermDebt)
  5. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001997350-26-000003 (CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue)