FIRST COMMONWEALTH FINANCIAL CORP /PA/

FCFdata completeness 100%17 fiscal years on file
The thesis, from the filings

FIRST COMMONWEALTH FINANCIAL CORP /PA/ earns about 17% on invested capital, comfortably above its ~9% cost of capital, but has diluted owners by 8% over 5 years — a real edge showing up in the numbers. The estimate methods put fair value between $14.27 and $18.08 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$293.8M1$330M2$530M3$600.5M3$632.7M3
Net income$138.3M4$128.2M5$157.1M6$142.6M6$152.3M6
Operating cash flow$165M7$151.4M8$150.8M9$129.5M9$187.5M9
Capital expenditure$10.6M10$11.2M11$22M12$15.5M12$16.1M12
Free cash flow (derived)$154.4M7$140.2M8$128.7M9$113.9M9$171.5M9
Total debt$320.6M13$372.7M14$597.8M15$80.1M15$148M15
Cash & equivalents$395.4M16$154.2M17$147M17$133.4M17$180.4M17
Diluted shares95.8M93.9M101.8M102.2M103.5M

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
$150.15
your share of equity
Profit it earned you last year
$14.71
Free cash flow it threw off
$16.56
Debt you’d be carrying
$14.29

10 shares is a claim on $150.15 of net worth that earned you $14.71 and generated $16.56 of cash last year, against $14.29 of debt.

iii. Is this a good business?
Moat signal · return on invested capital
17% avg · 5y
FY21 15%FY22 11%FY23 15%FY24 24%FY25 21%

It earned about 17% 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
+8% shares · 5y

Share count is up 8% over 5 years — owners have been diluted. Worth asking what they got for it. Total debt has fallen 54% — 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 $14.27 and $18.08 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
$16.74
assumptions (10)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • terminalGrowth2.5%
  • projectionYears10
  • fcfGrowth0.0%
  • fcfBase$128.7M
DCF · Growth Exit 5Y
$18.08
assumptions (10)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • terminalGrowth2.5%
  • projectionYears5
  • fcfGrowth0.0%
  • fcfBase$128.7M
Earnings Power Value
$14.27
assumptions (8)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • normalizedEarnings$142.6M
  • growthAssumed0.0%
Graham Number
$22.28
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 $18.08
The three cases
Bear0.0%$18.08
Base0.0%$18.08
Bull5.0%$22.38

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 2021-12-31 · accession 0000712537-24-000054 (InterestAndDividendIncomeOperating)
  2. 10-K · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0000712537-25-000061 (InterestAndDividendIncomeOperating)
  3. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0000712537-26-000013 (InterestAndDividendIncomeOperating)
  4. 10-K · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0000712537-24-000054 (NetIncomeLoss)
  5. 10-K · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0000712537-25-000061 (NetIncomeLoss)
  6. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0000712537-26-000013 (NetIncomeLoss)
  7. 10-K · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0000712537-24-000054 (NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities)
  8. 10-K · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0000712537-25-000061 (NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities)
  9. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0000712537-26-000013 (NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities)
  10. 10-K · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0000712537-24-000054 (PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment)
  11. 10-K · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0000712537-25-000061 (PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment)
  12. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0000712537-26-000013 (PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment)
  13. 10-K · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0000712537-22-000007 (LongTermDebt)
  14. 10-K · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0000712537-25-000061 (ShortTermBorrowings)
  15. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0000712537-26-000013 (ShortTermBorrowings)
  16. 10-K · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0000712537-25-000061 (CashCashEquivalentsRestrictedCashAndRestrictedCashEquivalents)
  17. 10-K · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0000712537-26-000013 (CashCashEquivalentsRestrictedCashAndRestrictedCashEquivalents)