AMDOCS LTD

DOXdata completeness 100%18 fiscal years on file
The thesis, from the filings

AMDOCS LTD earns about 16% on invested capital, comfortably above its ~9% cost of capital, and has bought back 13% of its shares over 5 years — the marks of a durable business run for its owners. The estimate methods put fair value between $48.52 and $73.97 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 2020FY 2021FY 2022FY 2023FY 2024
Revenue$4.17B1$4.29B2$4.58B3$4.89B3$5B3
Net income$497.8M4$688.4M5$549.5M6$540.7M6$493.2M6
Operating cash flow$658.1M7$925.8M8$756.7M9$822.6M9$724.4M9
Capital expenditure$210.4M10$227.2M11$124.4M11$105.5M11
Free cash flow (derived)$715.4M8$529.5M9$698.3M9$618.9M9
Total debt$744M12$644.6M13$645.1M14$645.7M15$646.3M15
Cash & equivalents$983.2M16$709.1M17$573.4M18$520.1M19$346.1M19
Diluted shares133.2M128.0M121.9M118.5M115.5M

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
$299.33
your share of equity
Profit it earned you last year
$42.71
Free cash flow it threw off
$53.59
Debt you’d be carrying
$55.96

10 shares is a claim on $299.33 of net worth that earned you $42.71 and generated $53.59 of cash last year, against $55.96 of debt.

iii. Is this a good business?
Moat signal · return on invested capital
16% avg · 5y
FY20 15%FY21 20%FY22 16%FY23 15%FY24 13%

It earned about 16% on invested capital against a ~9% cost of capital — comfortably above the cost of funding, a moderate advantage.

seeing a moat in the numbers →
Management signal · capital allocation
−13% shares · 5y

Share count is down 13% over 5 years — management has been buying back stock, quietly handing owners a bigger slice. Total debt has fallen 13% — 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 3 estimate methods that apply put fair value between $48.52 and $73.97 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
$68.21
assumptions (10)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • terminalGrowth2.5%
  • projectionYears10
  • fcfGrowth0.0%
  • fcfBase$618.9M
DCF · Growth Exit 5Y
$73.97
assumptions (10)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • terminalGrowth2.5%
  • projectionYears5
  • fcfGrowth0.0%
  • fcfBase$618.9M
Earnings Power Value
$48.52
assumptions (8)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • normalizedEarnings$540.7M
  • growthAssumed0.0%
Graham Number
$53.5
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 $73.97
The three cases
Bear0.0%$73.97
Base0.0%$73.97
Bull5.0%$92.51

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. 20-F · period ending 2020-09-30 · accession 0001193125-22-303803 (Revenues)
  2. 20-F · period ending 2021-09-30 · accession 0000950170-23-070017 (Revenues)
  3. 20-F · period ending 2022-09-30 · accession 0000950170-24-137381 (Revenues)
  4. 20-F · period ending 2020-09-30 · accession 0001193125-22-303803 (NetIncomeLoss)
  5. 20-F · period ending 2021-09-30 · accession 0000950170-23-070017 (NetIncomeLoss)
  6. 20-F · period ending 2022-09-30 · accession 0000950170-24-137381 (NetIncomeLoss)
  7. 20-F · period ending 2020-09-30 · accession 0001193125-22-303803 (NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities)
  8. 20-F · period ending 2021-09-30 · accession 0000950170-23-070017 (NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities)
  9. 20-F · period ending 2022-09-30 · accession 0000950170-24-137381 (NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities)
  10. 20-F · period ending 2021-09-30 · accession 0000950170-23-070017 (PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment)
  11. 20-F · period ending 2022-09-30 · accession 0000950170-24-137381 (PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment)
  12. 20-F · period ending 2020-09-30 · accession 0001193125-21-352655 (LongTermDebtNoncurrent)
  13. 20-F · period ending 2021-09-30 · accession 0001193125-22-303803 (LongTermDebtNoncurrent)
  14. 20-F · period ending 2022-09-30 · accession 0000950170-23-070017 (LongTermDebtNoncurrent)
  15. 20-F · period ending 2023-09-30 · accession 0000950170-24-137381 (LongTermDebtNoncurrent)
  16. 20-F · period ending 2020-09-30 · accession 0001193125-21-352655 (CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue)
  17. 20-F · period ending 2021-09-30 · accession 0001193125-22-303803 (CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue)
  18. 20-F · period ending 2022-09-30 · accession 0000950170-23-070017 (CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue)
  19. 20-F · period ending 2023-09-30 · accession 0000950170-24-137381 (CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue)