Gildan Activewear Inc.

GILdata completeness 100%10 fiscal years on file

Data notes: no data for concept 'interestExpense'

The thesis, from the filings

Gildan Activewear Inc. earns about 17% on invested capital, comfortably above its ~9% cost of capital, and has bought back 4% of its shares over 5 years — the marks of a durable business run for its owners. The estimate methods put fair value between $3.65 and $29.86 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 2022FY 2023FY 2023FY 2024FY 2025
Revenue$2.92B1$3.24B2$3.2B3$3.27B4$3.62B4
Net income$607.2M5$541.5M6$533.6M7$400.9M8$398.9M8
Operating cash flow$617.5M9$413.5M10$546.6M11$501.4M12$606.3M12
Capital expenditure$127.5M13$239.1M14$203.3M15$145.3M16$106.4M16
Free cash flow (derived)$490.1M9$174.4M10$343.3M11$356.1M12$499.9M12
Total debt$600M17$930M18$985M19$1.54B20$4.31B20
Cash & equivalents$179.2M21$150.4M22$89.6M22$98.8M23$284.5M23
Diluted shares192.3M179.7M170.0M152.4M185.2M

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
$192.39
your share of equity
Profit it earned you last year
$21.54
Free cash flow it threw off
$27
Debt you’d be carrying
$232.98

10 shares is a claim on $192.39 of net worth that earned you $21.54 and generated $27 of cash last year, against $232.98 of debt.

iii. Is this a good business?
Moat signal · return on invested capital
17% avg · 5y
FY22 26%FY23 20%FY23 19%FY24 14%FY25 5%

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
−4% shares · 5y

Share count is down 4% over 5 years — management has been buying back stock, quietly handing owners a bigger slice. Total debt has risen 619% 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 $3.65 and $29.86 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
$3.65
assumptions (10)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • terminalGrowth2.5%
  • projectionYears10
  • fcfGrowth0.0%
  • fcfBase$356.1M
DCF · Growth Exit 5Y
$5.71
assumptions (10)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • terminalGrowth2.5%
  • projectionYears5
  • fcfGrowth0.0%
  • fcfBase$356.1M
Earnings Power Value
$29.86
assumptions (8)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • normalizedEarnings$533.6M
  • growthAssumed0.0%
Graham Number
$33.61
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 $5.71
The three cases
Bear0.0%$5.71
Base0.0%$5.71
Bull5.0%$12.36

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. 40-F · period ending 2022-01-02 · accession 0001061894-23-000007 (Revenue)
  2. 40-F · period ending 2023-01-01 · accession 0001061894-24-000010 (Revenue)
  3. 40-F · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001061894-25-000007 (Revenue)
  4. 40-F · period ending 2024-12-29 · accession 0001061894-26-000006 (Revenue)
  5. 40-F · period ending 2022-01-02 · accession 0001061894-23-000007 (ProfitLossAttributableToOwnersOfParent)
  6. 40-F · period ending 2023-01-01 · accession 0001061894-24-000010 (ProfitLossAttributableToOwnersOfParent)
  7. 40-F · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001061894-25-000007 (ProfitLossAttributableToOwnersOfParent)
  8. 40-F · period ending 2024-12-29 · accession 0001061894-26-000006 (ProfitLossAttributableToOwnersOfParent)
  9. 40-F · period ending 2022-01-02 · accession 0001061894-23-000007 (CashFlowsFromUsedInOperatingActivities)
  10. 40-F · period ending 2023-01-01 · accession 0001061894-24-000010 (CashFlowsFromUsedInOperatingActivities)
  11. 40-F · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001061894-25-000007 (CashFlowsFromUsedInOperatingActivities)
  12. 40-F · period ending 2024-12-29 · accession 0001061894-26-000006 (CashFlowsFromUsedInOperatingActivities)
  13. 40-F · period ending 2022-01-02 · accession 0001061894-23-000007 (PurchaseOfPropertyPlantAndEquipmentClassifiedAsInvestingActivities)
  14. 40-F · period ending 2023-01-01 · accession 0001061894-24-000010 (PurchaseOfPropertyPlantAndEquipmentClassifiedAsInvestingActivities)
  15. 40-F · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001061894-25-000007 (PurchaseOfPropertyPlantAndEquipmentClassifiedAsInvestingActivities)
  16. 40-F · period ending 2024-12-29 · accession 0001061894-26-000006 (PurchaseOfPropertyPlantAndEquipmentClassifiedAsInvestingActivities)
  17. 40-F · period ending 2022-01-02 · accession 0001061894-23-000007 (Borrowings)
  18. 40-F · period ending 2023-01-01 · accession 0001061894-24-000010 (Borrowings)
  19. 40-F · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001061894-25-000007 (Borrowings)
  20. 40-F · period ending 2024-12-29 · accession 0001061894-26-000006 (Borrowings)
  21. 40-F · period ending 2022-01-02 · accession 0001061894-24-000010 (CashAndCashEquivalents)
  22. 40-F · period ending 2023-01-01 · accession 0001061894-25-000007 (CashAndCashEquivalents)
  23. 40-F · period ending 2024-12-29 · accession 0001061894-26-000006 (CashAndCashEquivalents)