Stride, Inc.

LRNdata completeness 100%16 fiscal years on file
The thesis, from the filings

Stride, Inc. earns about 11% on invested capital, comfortably above its ~9% cost of capital, but has diluted owners by 16% over 5 years — a real edge showing up in the numbers. The estimate methods put fair value between $27.16 and $339.62 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$1.54B1$1.69B2$1.84B3$2.04B3$2.41B3
Net income$71.5M4$107.1M5$126.9M6$204.2M6$287.9M6
Operating cash flow$134.2M7$206.9M8$203.2M9$278.8M9$432.8M9
Capital expenditure$3.57M10$9.75M11$4.34M12$2.27M12$1.78M12
Free cash flow (derived)$130.6M7$197.1M8$198.8M9$276.5M9$431M9
Total debt$598.5M13$822.9M14$826.1M15$829.4M16$832.6M16
Cash & equivalents$386.1M17$389.4M17$410.8M18$500.6M19$782.5M19
Diluted shares41.9M42.4M42.7M43.5M48.4M

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
$305.62
your share of equity
Profit it earned you last year
$59.48
Free cash flow it threw off
$89.03
Debt you’d be carrying
$171.99

10 shares is a claim on $305.62 of net worth that earned you $59.48 and generated $89.03 of cash last year, against $171.99 of debt.

iii. Is this a good business?
Moat signal · return on invested capital
11% avg · 5y
FY21 7%FY22 9%FY23 9%FY24 14%FY25 19%

It earned about 11% 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
+16% shares · 5y

Share count is up 16% over 5 years — owners have been diluted. Worth asking what they got for it. Total debt has risen 39% 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 $27.16 and $339.62 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
$339.62
assumptions (10)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • terminalGrowth2.5%
  • projectionYears10
  • fcfGrowth20.0%
  • fcfBase$276.5M
DCF · Growth Exit 5Y
$185.19
assumptions (10)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • terminalGrowth2.5%
  • projectionYears5
  • fcfGrowth20.0%
  • fcfBase$276.5M
Earnings Power Value
$27.16
assumptions (8)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • normalizedEarnings$126.9M
  • growthAssumed0.0%
Graham Number
$63.96
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 years20.0%
Discount rate (WACC)8.93%
Terminal growth2.5%
At your growth, a share is worth $185.19
The three cases
Bear0.0%$80.57
Base20.0%$185.19
Bull20.0%$185.19

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

Default growth 20.0%= 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 2021-06-30 · accession 0001558370-23-015003 (RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax)
  2. 10-K · period ending 2022-06-30 · accession 0001558370-24-011134 (RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax)
  3. 10-K · period ending 2023-06-30 · accession 0001558370-25-010334 (RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax)
  4. 10-K · period ending 2021-06-30 · accession 0001558370-23-015003 (NetIncomeLoss)
  5. 10-K · period ending 2022-06-30 · accession 0001558370-24-011134 (NetIncomeLoss)
  6. 10-K · period ending 2023-06-30 · accession 0001558370-25-010334 (NetIncomeLoss)
  7. 10-K · period ending 2021-06-30 · accession 0001558370-23-015003 (NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities)
  8. 10-K · period ending 2022-06-30 · accession 0001558370-24-011134 (NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities)
  9. 10-K · period ending 2023-06-30 · accession 0001558370-25-010334 (NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities)
  10. 10-K · period ending 2021-06-30 · accession 0001558370-23-015003 (PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment)
  11. 10-K · period ending 2022-06-30 · accession 0001558370-24-011134 (PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment)
  12. 10-K · period ending 2023-06-30 · accession 0001558370-25-010334 (PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment)
  13. 10-K · period ending 2021-06-30 · accession 0001558370-22-012941 (LongTermDebtNoncurrent)
  14. 10-K · period ending 2022-06-30 · accession 0001558370-23-015003 (LongTermDebtNoncurrent)
  15. 10-K · period ending 2023-06-30 · accession 0001558370-24-011134 (LongTermDebtNoncurrent)
  16. 10-K · period ending 2024-06-30 · accession 0001558370-25-010334 (LongTermDebtNoncurrent)
  17. 10-K · period ending 2021-06-30 · accession 0001558370-23-015003 (CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue)
  18. 10-K · period ending 2023-06-30 · accession 0001558370-24-011134 (CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue)
  19. 10-K · period ending 2024-06-30 · accession 0001558370-25-010334 (CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue)