WARRIOR MET COAL, INC.

HCCdata completeness 88%10 fiscal years on file

Data notes: no data for concept 'interestExpense'

The thesis, from the filings

WARRIOR MET COAL, INC. earns about 23% on invested capital, far above its ~9% cost of capital, but has diluted owners by 2% over 5 years — a real edge showing up in the numbers. The estimate methods put fair value between $49.37 and $107.3 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$1.06B1$1.74B2$1.68B3$1.53B3$1.31B3
Net income$150.9M4$641.3M5$478.6M6$250.6M6$57M6
Operating cash flow$351.5M7$841.9M8$701.1M9$367.4M9$229.2M9
Capital expenditure$57.9M10$205.2M10
Free cash flow (derived)$293.7M7$636.7M8
Total debt$679.6M11$605.2M12$306M13$307.2M14$308.5M14
Cash & equivalents$395.8M15$829.5M16$738.2M16$491.5M16$300M16
Diluted shares51.4M51.7M52.0M52.3M52.6M

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
$407.08
your share of equity
Profit it earned you last year
$10.84
Free cash flow it threw off
Debt you’d be carrying
$58.65

10 shares is a claim on $407.08 of net worth that earned you $10.84 last year, against $58.65 of debt.

iii. Is this a good business?
Moat signal · return on invested capital
23% avg · 5y
FY21 13%FY22 52%FY23 33%FY24 13%FY25 3%

It earned about 23% 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
+2% shares · 5y

Share count is up 2% over 5 years — owners have been diluted. Worth asking what they got for it. Total debt has fallen 55% — 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 $49.37 and $107.3 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
$107.3
assumptions (10)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • terminalGrowth2.5%
  • projectionYears10
  • fcfGrowth5.0%
  • fcfBase$293.7M
DCF · Growth Exit 5Y
$98.9
assumptions (10)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • terminalGrowth2.5%
  • projectionYears5
  • fcfGrowth5.0%
  • fcfBase$293.7M
Earnings Power Value
$49.37
assumptions (8)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • normalizedEarnings$250.6M
  • growthAssumed0.0%
Graham Number
$31.45
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 years5.0%
Discount rate (WACC)8.93%
Terminal growth2.5%
At your growth, a share is worth $98.9
The three cases
Bear0.0%$79.6
Base5.0%$98.9
Bull10.0%$122

Bear/base/bull growth = 0% / filed history / history + 5pp. Type a price to see the return each case implies.

Default growth 5.0%= 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 0001691303-24-000008 (RevenueFromContractWithCustomerIncludingAssessedTax)
  2. 10-K · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001691303-25-000010 (RevenueFromContractWithCustomerIncludingAssessedTax)
  3. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001193125-26-048914 (RevenueFromContractWithCustomerIncludingAssessedTax)
  4. 10-K · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0001691303-24-000008 (NetIncomeLoss)
  5. 10-K · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001691303-25-000010 (NetIncomeLoss)
  6. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001193125-26-048914 (NetIncomeLoss)
  7. 10-K · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0001691303-24-000008 (NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities)
  8. 10-K · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001691303-25-000010 (NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities)
  9. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001193125-26-048914 (NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities)
  10. 10-K · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0001691303-23-000010 (PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment)
  11. 10-K · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0001691303-23-000010 (LongTermDebtNoncurrent)
  12. 10-K · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001691303-24-000008 (LongTermDebtNoncurrent)
  13. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001691303-25-000010 (LongTermDebtNoncurrent)
  14. 10-K · period ending 2024-12-31 · accession 0001193125-26-048914 (LongTermDebtNoncurrent)
  15. 10-K · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0001691303-25-000010 (CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue)
  16. 10-K · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001193125-26-048914 (CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue)