StealthGas Inc.

GASSdata completeness 100%17 fiscal years on file

Data notes: no data for concept 'incomeTaxExpense'; no data for concept 'pretaxIncome'

The thesis, from the filings

StealthGas Inc. earns about 6% on equity, below its ~9% cost of capital, and has bought back 5% of its shares over 5 years — no moat visible in the numbers. The estimate methods put fair value between $14.99 and $131.28 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$150.2M1$152.8M2$143.5M3$167.3M3$173.2M3
Net income−$35.1M4$34.3M5$51.9M6$69.9M6$60.6M6
Operating cash flow$41M7$66.6M8$77.4M9$103.5M9$85.2M9
Capital expenditure$25.2M10$24.2M11$85,20112$106.2M12$412,42812
Free cash flow (derived)$15.8M7$42.3M8$77.4M9−$2.67M9$84.8M9
Total debt$597M13$556.1M14$247.7M15$170.8M16$016
Cash & equivalents$31.3M17$55.8M18$77.2M19$80.7M19$99.1M19
Diluted shares37.9M37.2M37.2M35.3M35.9M

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
$192.31
your share of equity
Profit it earned you last year
$16.9
Free cash flow it threw off
$23.61
Debt you’d be carrying
$0

10 shares is a claim on $192.31 of net worth that earned you $16.9 and generated $23.61 of cash last year, against $0 of debt.

iii. Is this a good business?
Moat signal · return on equity
6% avg · 5y
FY21 -7%FY22 7%FY23 9%FY24 11%FY25 9%

It earned about 6% on equity 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
−5% shares · 5y

Share count is down 5% over 5 years — management has been buying back stock, quietly handing owners a bigger slice. 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 3 estimate methods that apply put fair value between $14.99 and $131.28 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
$131.28
assumptions (10)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • terminalGrowth2.5%
  • projectionYears10
  • fcfGrowth20.0%
  • fcfBase$77.4M
DCF · Growth Exit 5Y
$73.02
assumptions (10)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • terminalGrowth2.5%
  • projectionYears5
  • fcfGrowth20.0%
  • fcfBase$77.4M
Earnings Power Value
$14.99
assumptions (8)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • normalizedEarnings$51.9M
  • growthAssumed0.0%
Graham Number
$26.64
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 $73.02
The three cases
Bear0.0%$33.55
Base20.0%$73.02
Bull20.0%$73.02

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. 20-F · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0001193125-24-118756 (RevenueFromContractWithCustomerIncludingAssessedTax)
  2. 20-F · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001193125-25-100460 (RevenueFromContractWithCustomerIncludingAssessedTax)
  3. 20-F · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001193125-26-183385 (RevenueFromContractWithCustomerIncludingAssessedTax)
  4. 20-F · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0001193125-24-118756 (NetIncomeLoss)
  5. 20-F · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001193125-25-100460 (NetIncomeLoss)
  6. 20-F · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001193125-26-183385 (NetIncomeLoss)
  7. 20-F · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0001193125-24-118756 (NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities)
  8. 20-F · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001193125-25-100460 (NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities)
  9. 20-F · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001193125-26-183385 (NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities)
  10. 20-F · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0001193125-24-118756 (PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment)
  11. 20-F · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001193125-25-100460 (PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment)
  12. 20-F · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001193125-26-183385 (PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment)
  13. 20-F · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0001193125-23-122209 (LongTermDebtNoncurrent)
  14. 20-F · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001193125-24-118756 (LongTermDebtNoncurrent)
  15. 20-F · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001193125-25-100460 (LongTermDebtNoncurrent)
  16. 20-F · period ending 2024-12-31 · accession 0001193125-26-183385 (LongTermDebtNoncurrent)
  17. 20-F · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0001193125-24-118756 (CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue)
  18. 20-F · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001193125-25-100460 (CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue)
  19. 20-F · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001193125-26-183385 (CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue)