First Guaranty Bancshares, Inc.

FGBIdata completeness 100%17 fiscal years on file

Data notes: no data for concept 'epsDiluted'

The thesis, from the filings

First Guaranty Bancshares, Inc. earns about 147% on invested capital, far above its ~9% cost of capital, but has diluted owners by 31% over 5 years — a real edge showing up in the numbers. The estimate methods put fair value between $9.22 and $54.17 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$111.9M1$136.6M2$183M3$221.7M4$213.3M4
Net income$27.3M5$28.9M6$9.22M7$12.4M8−$56M8
Operating cash flow$26.5M9$36.9M10$21.7M11$33.7M12−$8.28M12
Capital expenditure$2.2M13$2.64M14$14.9M15$3.04M16$1.7M16
Free cash flow (derived)$24.3M9$34.2M10$6.86M11$30.7M12−$9.98M12
Total debt$49.6M17$183.3M18$275.4M19$201.9M20$186.1M21
Cash & equivalents$261.9M22$83.2M23$286.5M24$564.2M24$845.7M24
Diluted shares10.7M10.7M11.2M12.5M14.0M

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
$161.75
your share of equity
Profit it earned you last year
−$40.06
Free cash flow it threw off
−$7.13
Debt you’d be carrying
$133.08

10 shares is a claim on $161.75 of net worth that earned you −$40.06 and generated −$7.13 of cash last year, against $133.08 of debt.

iii. Is this a good business?
Moat signal · return on invested capital
147% avg · 5y
FY21 388%FY22 17%FY23 36%FY24 FY25

It earned about 147% on invested capital, year after year, against a ~9% cost of capital — the footprint of real pricing power. Competition usually drags returns like this back down; here it hasn't.

seeing a moat in the numbers →
Management signal · capital allocation
+31% shares · 5y

Share count is up 31% over 5 years — owners have been diluted. Worth asking what they got for it. Total debt has risen 275% over the same window.

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 $9.22 and $54.17 a share. They rest on different assumptions, so where they diverge is the story.

DCF · Growth Exit 10Y
$53.64
assumptions (10)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • terminalGrowth2.5%
  • projectionYears10
  • fcfGrowth0.0%
  • fcfBase$6.86M
DCF · Growth Exit 5Y
$54.17
assumptions (10)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • terminalGrowth2.5%
  • projectionYears5
  • fcfGrowth0.0%
  • fcfBase$6.86M
Earnings Power Value
$9.22
assumptions (8)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • normalizedEarnings$12.4M
  • growthAssumed0.0%
Graham Number
not applicable
diluted EPS missing or non-positive — Graham Number undefined

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 $54.17
The three cases
Bear0.0%$54.17
Base0.0%$54.17
Bull5.0%$55.87

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 0001408534-23-000018 (InterestAndDividendIncomeOperating)
  2. 10-K · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001408534-24-000021 (InterestAndDividendIncomeOperating)
  3. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001408534-25-000015 (InterestAndDividendIncomeOperating)
  4. 10-K · period ending 2024-12-31 · accession 0001408534-26-000021 (InterestAndDividendIncomeOperating)
  5. 10-K · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0001408534-23-000018 (NetIncomeLoss)
  6. 10-K · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001408534-24-000021 (NetIncomeLoss)
  7. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001408534-25-000015 (NetIncomeLoss)
  8. 10-K · period ending 2024-12-31 · accession 0001408534-26-000021 (NetIncomeLoss)
  9. 10-K · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0001408534-23-000018 (NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities)
  10. 10-K · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001408534-24-000021 (NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities)
  11. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001408534-25-000015 (NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities)
  12. 10-K · period ending 2024-12-31 · accession 0001408534-26-000021 (NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities)
  13. 10-K · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0001408534-23-000018 (PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment)
  14. 10-K · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001408534-24-000021 (PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment)
  15. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001408534-25-000015 (PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment)
  16. 10-K · period ending 2024-12-31 · accession 0001408534-26-000021 (PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment)
  17. 10-K · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0001408534-22-000022 (LongTermDebt)
  18. 10-K · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001408534-23-000018 (LongTermDebt)
  19. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001408534-24-000021 (LongTermDebt)
  20. 10-K · period ending 2024-12-31 · accession 0001408534-25-000015 (LongTermDebt)
  21. 10-K · period ending 2025-12-31 · accession 0001408534-26-000021 (LongTermDebt)
  22. 10-K · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0001408534-24-000021 (CashCashEquivalentsRestrictedCashAndRestrictedCashEquivalents)
  23. 10-K · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001408534-25-000015 (CashCashEquivalentsRestrictedCashAndRestrictedCashEquivalents)
  24. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001408534-26-000021 (CashCashEquivalentsRestrictedCashAndRestrictedCashEquivalents)