Acushnet Holdings Corp.

GOLFdata completeness 100%12 fiscal years on file
The thesis, from the filings

Acushnet Holdings Corp. earns about 9% on invested capital, barely covering its ~9% cost of capital, and has bought back 20% of its shares over 5 years. The estimate methods put fair value between $7.04 and $33.95 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$2.15B1$2.27B2$2.38B3$2.46B3$2.56B3
Net income$178.9M4$199.3M5$198.4M6$214.3M6$188.5M6
Operating cash flow$314.1M7−$67.8M8$371.8M9$245.1M9$194.4M9
Capital expenditure$37.6M10$61.4M11$75.4M12$74.6M12$74.3M12
Free cash flow (derived)$276.5M7−$129.2M8$296.5M9$170.5M9$120M9
Total debt$630M13$1.09B14$1.38B15$1.52B16$1.88B16
Cash & equivalents$281.7M17$58.9M18$65.4M18$53.1M18$50.1M18
Diluted shares75.3M72.6M67.5M63.6M60.6M

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
$129.37
your share of equity
Profit it earned you last year
$31.13
Free cash flow it threw off
$19.82
Debt you’d be carrying
$309.78

10 shares is a claim on $129.37 of net worth that earned you $31.13 and generated $19.82 of cash last year, against $309.78 of debt.

iii. Is this a good business?
Moat signal · return on invested capital
9% avg · 5y
FY21 13%FY22 10%FY23 8%FY24 9%FY25 7%

It earned about 9% on invested capital against a ~9% cost of capital — roughly what it costs to fund the business, so the numbers show no clear edge.

seeing a moat in the numbers →
Management signal · capital allocation
−20% shares · 5y

Share count is down 20% over 5 years — management has been buying back stock, quietly handing owners a bigger slice. Total debt has risen 198% 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 $7.04 and $33.95 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
$7.04
assumptions (10)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • terminalGrowth2.5%
  • projectionYears10
  • fcfGrowth0.0%
  • fcfBase$170.5M
DCF · Growth Exit 5Y
$10.06
assumptions (10)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • terminalGrowth2.5%
  • projectionYears5
  • fcfGrowth0.0%
  • fcfBase$170.5M
Earnings Power Value
$33.95
assumptions (8)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • normalizedEarnings$198.4M
  • growthAssumed0.0%
Graham Number
$30.09
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 $10.06
The three cases
Bear0.0%$10.06
Base0.0%$10.06
Bull5.0%$19.8

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 0001672013-24-000008 (RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax)
  2. 10-K · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001672013-25-000009 (RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax)
  3. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001672013-26-000057 (RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax)
  4. 10-K · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0001672013-24-000008 (NetIncomeLoss)
  5. 10-K · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001672013-25-000009 (NetIncomeLoss)
  6. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001672013-26-000057 (NetIncomeLoss)
  7. 10-K · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0001672013-24-000008 (NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities)
  8. 10-K · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001672013-25-000009 (NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities)
  9. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001672013-26-000057 (NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities)
  10. 10-K · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0001672013-24-000008 (PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment)
  11. 10-K · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001672013-25-000009 (PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment)
  12. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001672013-26-000057 (PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment)
  13. 10-K · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0001672013-23-000011 (LongTermDebtNoncurrent)
  14. 10-K · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001672013-24-000008 (LongTermDebtNoncurrent)
  15. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001672013-25-000009 (LongTermDebtNoncurrent)
  16. 10-K · period ending 2024-12-31 · accession 0001672013-26-000057 (LongTermDebtNoncurrent)
  17. 10-K · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0001672013-25-000009 (CashCashEquivalentsRestrictedCashAndRestrictedCashEquivalents)
  18. 10-K · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001672013-26-000057 (CashCashEquivalentsRestrictedCashAndRestrictedCashEquivalents)