nCino, Inc.

NCNOdata completeness 88%7 fiscal years on file

Data notes: no data for concept 'totalDebt'

The thesis, from the filings

nCino, Inc. earns about -4% on invested capital, below its ~9% cost of capital, but has diluted owners by 18% over 5 years — no moat visible in the numbers. The estimate methods put fair value between $9.12 and $9.83 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$273.9M1$408.3M2$476.5M3$540.7M3$594.8M3
Net income−$49.4M4−$102.7M5−$42.3M6−$37.9M6$5.18M6
Operating cash flow−$19.2M7−$15.4M8$57.3M9$55.2M9$90.1M9
Capital expenditure$5.46M10$18.3M11$3.52M12$1.82M12$7.5M12
Free cash flow (derived)−$24.7M7−$33.7M8$53.8M9$53.4M9$82.6M9
Total debt
Cash & equivalents$88M13$82M14$112.1M15$120.9M15$88.4M15
Diluted shares96.7M110.6M112.7M115.2M114.3M

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
$92.34
your share of equity
Profit it earned you last year
$0.45
Free cash flow it threw off
$7.22
Debt you’d be carrying

10 shares is a claim on $92.34 of net worth that earned you $0.45 and generated $7.22 of cash last year.

iii. Is this a good business?
Moat signal · return on invested capital
-4% avg · 5y
FY22 -6%FY23 -8%FY24 -3%FY25 -3%FY26 1%

It earned about -4% 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
+18% shares · 5y

Share count is up 18% over 5 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 $9.12 and $9.83 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
$9.83
assumptions (10)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • terminalGrowth2.5%
  • projectionYears10
  • fcfGrowth5.0%
  • fcfBase$53.8M
DCF · Growth Exit 5Y
$9.12
assumptions (10)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • terminalGrowth2.5%
  • projectionYears5
  • fcfGrowth5.0%
  • fcfBase$53.8M
Earnings Power Value
not applicable
normalized (5y-median) earnings non-positive — EPV undefined
Graham Number
$3.22
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 $9.12
The three cases
Bear0.0%$7.49
Base5.0%$9.12
Bull10.0%$11.06

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 2022-01-31 · accession 0001902733-24-000053 (RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax)
  2. 10-K · period ending 2023-01-31 · accession 0001902733-25-000026 (RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax)
  3. 10-K · period ending 2024-01-31 · accession 0001902733-26-000022 (RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax)
  4. 10-K · period ending 2022-01-31 · accession 0001902733-24-000053 (NetIncomeLoss)
  5. 10-K · period ending 2023-01-31 · accession 0001902733-25-000026 (NetIncomeLoss)
  6. 10-K · period ending 2024-01-31 · accession 0001902733-26-000022 (NetIncomeLoss)
  7. 10-K · period ending 2022-01-31 · accession 0001902733-24-000053 (NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities)
  8. 10-K · period ending 2023-01-31 · accession 0001902733-25-000026 (NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities)
  9. 10-K · period ending 2024-01-31 · accession 0001902733-26-000022 (NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities)
  10. 10-K · period ending 2022-01-31 · accession 0001902733-24-000053 (PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment)
  11. 10-K · period ending 2023-01-31 · accession 0001902733-25-000026 (PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment)
  12. 10-K · period ending 2024-01-31 · accession 0001902733-26-000022 (PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment)
  13. 10-K · period ending 2022-01-31 · accession 0001902733-24-000053 (CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue)
  14. 10-K · period ending 2023-01-31 · accession 0001902733-25-000026 (CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue)
  15. 10-K · period ending 2024-01-31 · accession 0001902733-26-000022 (CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue)