KEWAUNEE SCIENTIFIC CORP /DE/

KEQUdata completeness 100%17 fiscal years on file
The thesis, from the filings

KEWAUNEE SCIENTIFIC CORP /DE/ earns about 13% on invested capital, comfortably above its ~9% cost of capital, but has diluted owners by 7% over 5 years — a real edge showing up in the numbers. The estimate methods put fair value between $33.41 and $84.69 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 2024FY 2025FY 2026
Revenue$168.9M1$219.5M2$203.8M3$240.5M4$282M4
Net income−$6.13M5$738,0006$18.8M7$11.4M8$9.62M8
Operating cash flow−$7.89M9−$3.79M10$19.6M11$14.8M12$18.6M12
Capital expenditure$1.91M13$4.15M14$4.37M15$2.17M16$3.94M16
Free cash flow (derived)−$9.79M9−$7.94M10$15.2M11$12.6M12$14.7M12
Total debt$1.59M17$3.59M18$3.1M19$76.4M20$40.2M20
Cash & equivalents$4.43M21$8.08M22$23.3M23$14.9M24$9.95M24
Diluted shares2.8M2.9M2.9M3.0M3.0M

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
$250.48
your share of equity
Profit it earned you last year
$32.24
Free cash flow it threw off
$49.27
Debt you’d be carrying
$134.9

10 shares is a claim on $250.48 of net worth that earned you $32.24 and generated $49.27 of cash last year, against $134.9 of debt.

iii. Is this a good business?
Moat signal · return on invested capital
13% avg · 5y
FY22 -4%FY23 9%FY24 43%FY25 9%FY26 10%

It earned about 13% 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
+7% shares · 5y

Share count is up 7% over 5 years — owners have been diluted. Worth asking what they got for it. Total debt has risen 2434% 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 $33.41 and $84.69 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
$84.69
assumptions (10)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • terminalGrowth2.5%
  • projectionYears10
  • fcfGrowth5.0%
  • fcfBase$14.7M
DCF · Growth Exit 5Y
$77.27
assumptions (10)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • terminalGrowth2.5%
  • projectionYears5
  • fcfGrowth5.0%
  • fcfBase$14.7M
Earnings Power Value
$33.41
assumptions (8)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • normalizedEarnings$9.62M
  • growthAssumed0.0%
Graham Number
$42.6
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 $77.27
The three cases
Bear0.0%$60.24
Base5.0%$77.27
Bull10.0%$97.66

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 2022-04-30 · accession 0000055529-23-000013 (RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax)
  2. 10-K · period ending 2023-04-30 · accession 0000055529-24-000021 (RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax)
  3. 10-K · period ending 2024-04-30 · accession 0000055529-25-000026 (RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax)
  4. 10-K · period ending 2025-04-30 · accession 0000055529-26-000020 (RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax)
  5. 10-K · period ending 2022-04-30 · accession 0000055529-23-000013 (NetIncomeLoss)
  6. 10-K · period ending 2023-04-30 · accession 0000055529-24-000021 (NetIncomeLoss)
  7. 10-K · period ending 2024-04-30 · accession 0000055529-25-000026 (NetIncomeLoss)
  8. 10-K · period ending 2025-04-30 · accession 0000055529-26-000020 (NetIncomeLoss)
  9. 10-K · period ending 2022-04-30 · accession 0000055529-23-000013 (NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities)
  10. 10-K · period ending 2023-04-30 · accession 0000055529-24-000021 (NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities)
  11. 10-K · period ending 2024-04-30 · accession 0000055529-25-000026 (NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities)
  12. 10-K · period ending 2025-04-30 · accession 0000055529-26-000020 (NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities)
  13. 10-K · period ending 2022-04-30 · accession 0000055529-23-000013 (PaymentsToAcquireProductiveAssets)
  14. 10-K · period ending 2023-04-30 · accession 0000055529-24-000021 (PaymentsToAcquireProductiveAssets)
  15. 10-K · period ending 2024-04-30 · accession 0000055529-25-000026 (PaymentsToAcquireProductiveAssets)
  16. 10-K · period ending 2025-04-30 · accession 0000055529-26-000020 (PaymentsToAcquireProductiveAssets)
  17. 10-K · period ending 2022-04-30 · accession 0000055529-23-000013 (ShortTermBorrowings)
  18. 10-K · period ending 2023-04-30 · accession 0000055529-24-000021 (ShortTermBorrowings)
  19. 10-K · period ending 2024-04-30 · accession 0000055529-25-000026 (ShortTermBorrowings)
  20. 10-K · period ending 2025-04-30 · accession 0000055529-26-000020 (LongTermDebtNoncurrent)
  21. 10-K · period ending 2022-04-30 · accession 0000055529-23-000013 (CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue)
  22. 10-K · period ending 2023-04-30 · accession 0000055529-24-000021 (CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue)
  23. 10-K · period ending 2024-04-30 · accession 0000055529-25-000026 (CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue)
  24. 10-K · period ending 2025-04-30 · accession 0000055529-26-000020 (CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue)