Centuri Holdings, Inc.

CTRIdata completeness 100%4 fiscal years on file

Data notes: no data for concept 'interestExpense'

The thesis, from the filings

Centuri Holdings, Inc. earns about -12% on invested capital, below its ~9% cost of capital, but has diluted owners by 26% over 4 years — no moat visible in the numbers. The estimate methods put fair value between $1.85 and $2.55 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 2023FY 2023FY 2024FY 2025
Revenue$2.76B1$2.9B2$2.64B2$2.98B2
Net income−$168.1M3−$186.2M4−$6.72M4$22.4M4
Operating cash flow$94.6M5$167.5M6$158.2M6$78.1M6
Capital expenditure$129.6M7$106.7M8$99.3M8$86.3M8
Free cash flow (derived)−$35M5$60.8M6$58.9M6−$8.2M6
Total debt$1.15B9$873.9M10$737.6M10
Cash & equivalents$64M11$33.4M12$49M12$126.6M12
Diluted shares71.7M71.7M83.3M90.3M

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
$96.68
your share of equity
Profit it earned you last year
$2.48
Free cash flow it threw off
−$0.91
Debt you’d be carrying
$81.69

10 shares is a claim on $96.68 of net worth that earned you $2.48 and generated −$0.91 of cash last year, against $81.69 of debt.

iii. Is this a good business?
Moat signal · return on invested capital
-12% avg · 4y
FY23 -40%FY23 -10%FY24 -0%FY25 1%

It earned about -12% 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
+26% shares · 4y

Share count is up 26% over 4 years — owners have been diluted. Worth asking what they got for it. Total debt has fallen 36% — deleveraging.

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 2 estimate methods that apply put fair value between $1.85 and $2.55 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
$1.85
assumptions (10)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • terminalGrowth2.5%
  • projectionYears10
  • fcfGrowth0.0%
  • fcfBase$58.9M
DCF · Growth Exit 5Y
$2.55
assumptions (10)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • terminalGrowth2.5%
  • projectionYears5
  • fcfGrowth0.0%
  • fcfBase$58.9M
Earnings Power Value
not applicable
normalized (5y-median) earnings non-positive — EPV undefined
Graham Number
$7.37
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 years0.0%
Discount rate (WACC)8.93%
Terminal growth2.5%
At your growth, a share is worth $2.55
The three cases
Bear0.0%$2.55
Base0.0%$2.55
Bull5.0%$4.81

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

Default growth 0.0%= 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 2023-01-01 · accession 0001981599-25-000008 (RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax)
  2. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001981599-26-000020 (RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax)
  3. 10-K · period ending 2023-01-01 · accession 0001981599-25-000008 (NetIncomeLoss)
  4. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001981599-26-000020 (NetIncomeLoss)
  5. 10-K · period ending 2023-01-01 · accession 0001981599-25-000008 (NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities)
  6. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001981599-26-000020 (NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities)
  7. 10-K · period ending 2023-01-01 · accession 0001981599-25-000008 (PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment)
  8. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001981599-26-000020 (PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment)
  9. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001981599-25-000008 (LongTermDebtNoncurrent)
  10. 10-K · period ending 2024-12-29 · accession 0001981599-26-000020 (LongTermDebtNoncurrent)
  11. 10-K · period ending 2023-01-01 · accession 0001981599-26-000020 (CashCashEquivalentsRestrictedCashAndRestrictedCashEquivalents)
  12. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001981599-26-000020 (CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue)