Viant Technology Inc.

DSPdata completeness 88%7 fiscal years on file

Data notes: no data for concept 'cash'

The thesis, from the filings

Viant Technology Inc. earns about 8% on invested capital, below its ~9% cost of capital, but has diluted owners by 442% over 5 years — no moat visible in the numbers. The estimate methods put fair value between $23.98 and $43.87 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$224.1M1$197.2M2$222.9M3$289.2M3$344.2M3
Net income−$7.74M4−$11.9M5−$3.44M6$2.36M6$8.35M6
Operating cash flow$28.7M7−$3.53M8$37.8M9$51.8M9$52.6M9
Capital expenditure$441,00010$758,00011$1.2M12$2.5M12$926,00012
Free cash flow (derived)$28.2M7−$4.29M8$36.6M9$49.3M9$51.7M9
Total debt$35M13$014$015$016$016
Cash & equivalents
Diluted shares12.4M14.2M15.2M20.5M67.0M

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
$12.26
your share of equity
Profit it earned you last year
$1.25
Free cash flow it threw off
$7.72
Debt you’d be carrying
$0

10 shares is a claim on $12.26 of net worth that earned you $1.25 and generated $7.72 of cash last year, against $0 of debt.

iii. Is this a good business?
Moat signal · return on invested capital
8% avg · 5y
FY21 FY22 FY23 -11%FY24 23%FY25 12%

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
+442% shares · 5y

Share count is up 442% over 5 years — owners have been diluted. Worth asking what they got for it. Total debt has fallen 100% — 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 $23.98 and $43.87 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
$43.87
assumptions (10)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • terminalGrowth2.5%
  • projectionYears10
  • fcfGrowth20.0%
  • fcfBase$49.3M
DCF · Growth Exit 5Y
$23.98
assumptions (10)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • terminalGrowth2.5%
  • projectionYears5
  • fcfGrowth20.0%
  • fcfBase$49.3M
Earnings Power Value
not applicable
normalized (5y-median) earnings non-positive — EPV undefined
Graham Number
$3.15
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 $23.98
The three cases
Bear0.0%$10.51
Base20.0%$23.98
Bull20.0%$23.98

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 0001828791-24-000011 (RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax)
  2. 10-K · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001828791-25-000010 (RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax)
  3. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001828791-26-000019 (RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax)
  4. 10-K · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0001828791-24-000011 (NetIncomeLoss)
  5. 10-K · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001828791-25-000010 (NetIncomeLoss)
  6. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001828791-26-000019 (NetIncomeLoss)
  7. 10-K · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0001828791-24-000011 (NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities)
  8. 10-K · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001828791-25-000010 (NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities)
  9. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001828791-26-000019 (NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities)
  10. 10-K · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0001828791-24-000011 (PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment)
  11. 10-K · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001828791-25-000010 (PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment)
  12. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001828791-26-000019 (PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment)
  13. 10-K · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0001828791-23-000012 (LongTermDebtNoncurrent)
  14. 10-K · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001828791-24-000011 (LongTermDebtNoncurrent)
  15. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001828791-25-000010 (LongTermDebtNoncurrent)
  16. 10-K · period ending 2024-12-31 · accession 0001828791-26-000019 (LongTermDebtNoncurrent)