LandBridge Co LLC

LBdata completeness 100%3 fiscal years on file
The thesis, from the filings

LandBridge Co LLC earns about 7% on invested capital, below its ~9% cost of capital, but has diluted owners by 4% over 3 years — no moat visible in the numbers. The estimate methods put fair value between $1.08 and $4.08 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$72.9M1$110M1$199.1M1
Net income$63.2M2$5.11M3$30.1M3
Operating cash flow$53M4$67.6M4$126.3M4
Capital expenditure$2.78M5$985,0005$4.24M5
Free cash flow (derived)$50.3M4$66.7M4$122M4
Total debt$128.7M6$766.7M7$1.13B7
Cash & equivalents$37.8M8$37M9$30.7M9
Diluted shares73.4M76.5M

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
$44.46
your share of equity
Profit it earned you last year
$3.94
Free cash flow it threw off
$15.94
Debt you’d be carrying
$147.76

10 shares is a claim on $44.46 of net worth that earned you $3.94 and generated $15.94 of cash last year, against $147.76 of debt.

iii. Is this a good business?
Moat signal · return on invested capital
7% avg · 3y
FY23 23%FY24 -5%FY25 3%

It earned about 7% on invested capital 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
+4% shares · 3y

Share count is up 4% over 3 years — owners have been diluted. Worth asking what they got for it. Total debt has risen 779% 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 $1.08 and $4.08 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
$2.39
assumptions (10)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • terminalGrowth2.5%
  • projectionYears10
  • fcfGrowth5.0%
  • fcfBase$66.7M
DCF · Growth Exit 5Y
$1.08
assumptions (10)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • terminalGrowth2.5%
  • projectionYears5
  • fcfGrowth5.0%
  • fcfBase$66.7M
Earnings Power Value
$4.08
assumptions (8)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • normalizedEarnings$30.1M
  • growthAssumed0.0%
Graham Number
$9.7
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 $1.08
The three cases
Bear0.0%−$1.93
Base5.0%$1.08
Bull10.0%$4.68

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 0001193125-26-072404 (RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax)
  2. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001193125-26-072404 (ProfitLoss)
  3. 10-K · period ending 2024-12-31 · accession 0001193125-26-072404 (NetIncomeLoss)
  4. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001193125-26-072404 (NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities)
  5. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001193125-26-072404 (PaymentsToAcquireProductiveAssets)
  6. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0000950170-25-034049 (LongTermDebtNoncurrent)
  7. 10-K · period ending 2024-12-31 · accession 0001193125-26-072404 (LongTermDebtNoncurrent)
  8. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0000950170-25-034049 (CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue)
  9. 10-K · period ending 2024-12-31 · accession 0001193125-26-072404 (CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue)