Medpace Holdings, Inc.

MEDPdata completeness 88%11 fiscal years on file

Data notes: no data for concept 'interestExpense'

The thesis, from the filings

Medpace Holdings, Inc. earns about 112% on invested capital, far above its ~9% cost of capital, and has bought back 22% of its shares over 5 years — the marks of a durable business run for its owners. The estimate methods put fair value between $99.25 and $1,172.75 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$1.14B1$1.46B2$1.89B3$2.11B3$2.53B3
Net income$181.8M4$245.4M5$282.8M6$404.4M6$451.1M6
Operating cash flow$263.3M7$388.1M8$433.4M9$608.8M9$713.2M9
Capital expenditure$28.3M10$36.9M11$36.6M12$36.5M12$31.4M12
Free cash flow (derived)$235.1M7$351.2M8$396.7M9$572.3M9$681.9M9
Total debt$013$50M14$014
Cash & equivalents$461.3M15$28.3M16$245.4M17$669.4M18$497M18
Diluted shares37.7M33.7M31.8M32.0M29.5M

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
$155.47
your share of equity
Profit it earned you last year
$152.78
Free cash flow it threw off
$230.93
Debt you’d be carrying

10 shares is a claim on $155.47 of net worth that earned you $152.78 and generated $230.93 of cash last year.

iii. Is this a good business?
Moat signal · return on invested capital
112% avg · 5y
FY21 37%FY22 60%FY23 90%FY24 259%FY25

It earned about 112% 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
−22% shares · 5y

Share count is down 22% over 5 years — management has been buying back stock, quietly handing owners a bigger slice.

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 $99.25 and $1,172.75 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
$1,172.75
assumptions (10)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • terminalGrowth2.5%
  • projectionYears10
  • fcfGrowth20.0%
  • fcfBase$572.3M
DCF · Growth Exit 5Y
$648.73
assumptions (10)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • terminalGrowth2.5%
  • projectionYears5
  • fcfGrowth20.0%
  • fcfBase$572.3M
Earnings Power Value
$99.25
assumptions (8)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • normalizedEarnings$282.8M
  • growthAssumed0.0%
Graham Number
$73.11
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 $648.73
The three cases
Bear0.0%$293.75
Base20.0%$648.73
Bull20.0%$648.73

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 2021-12-31 · accession 0001668397-24-000013 (RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax)
  2. 10-K · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001668397-25-000017 (RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax)
  3. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001668397-26-000006 (RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax)
  4. 10-K · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0001668397-24-000013 (NetIncomeLoss)
  5. 10-K · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001668397-25-000017 (NetIncomeLoss)
  6. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001668397-26-000006 (NetIncomeLoss)
  7. 10-K · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0001668397-24-000013 (NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities)
  8. 10-K · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001668397-25-000017 (NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities)
  9. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001668397-26-000006 (NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities)
  10. 10-K · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0001668397-24-000013 (PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment)
  11. 10-K · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001668397-25-000017 (PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment)
  12. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001668397-26-000006 (PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment)
  13. 10-K · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0001668397-23-000008 (ShortTermBorrowings)
  14. 10-K · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001668397-24-000013 (ShortTermBorrowings)
  15. 10-K · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0001668397-23-000008 (CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue)
  16. 10-K · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001668397-24-000013 (CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue)
  17. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001668397-25-000017 (CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue)
  18. 10-K · period ending 2024-12-31 · accession 0001668397-26-000006 (CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue)