Hinge Health, Inc.

HNGEdata completeness 88%3 fiscal years on file

Data notes: no data for concept 'totalDebt'; no data for concept 'interestExpense'

The thesis, from the filings

Hinge Health, Inc. earns about -296% on equity, below its ~9% cost of capital, but has diluted owners by 319% over 3 years — no moat visible in the numbers. The estimate methods put fair value between $19.41 and $20.73 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 2023FY 2024FY 2025
Revenue$292.7M1$390.4M1$587.9M1
Net income−$108.1M2−$11.9M2−$528.3M2
Operating cash flow−$63.9M3$49M3$171.4M3
Capital expenditure$1.98M4$1.04M4$708,0004
Free cash flow (derived)−$65.9M3$48M3$170.7M3
Total debt
Cash & equivalents$235M5$300.8M5$208M5
Diluted shares13.0M13.6M54.6M

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
$32.74
your share of equity
Profit it earned you last year
−$96.79
Free cash flow it threw off
$31.28
Debt you’d be carrying

10 shares is a claim on $32.74 of net worth that earned you −$96.79 and generated $31.28 of cash last year.

iii. Is this a good business?
Moat signal · return on equity
-296% avg · 3y
FY23 FY24 FY25 -296%

It earned about -296% 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
+319% shares · 3y

Share count is up 319% over 3 years — owners have been diluted. Worth asking what they got for it.

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 2 estimate methods that apply put fair value between $19.41 and $20.73 a share. They rest on different assumptions, so where they diverge is the story.

DCF · Growth Exit 10Y
$20.73
assumptions (10)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • terminalGrowth2.5%
  • projectionYears10
  • fcfGrowth5.0%
  • fcfBase$48M
DCF · Growth Exit 5Y
$19.41
assumptions (10)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • terminalGrowth2.5%
  • projectionYears5
  • fcfGrowth5.0%
  • fcfBase$48M
Earnings Power Value
not applicable
normalized (5y-median) earnings non-positive — EPV undefined
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 years5.0%
Discount rate (WACC)8.93%
Terminal growth2.5%
At your growth, a share is worth $19.41
The three cases
Bear0.0%$16.37
Base5.0%$19.41
Bull10.0%$23.04

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 2023-12-31 · accession 0001628280-26-013808 (RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax)
  2. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001628280-26-013808 (NetIncomeLoss)
  3. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001628280-26-013808 (NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities)
  4. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001628280-26-013808 (PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment)
  5. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001628280-26-013808 (CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue)