NIKE, Inc.

NKEdata completeness 100%19 fiscal years on file

Data notes: no data for concept 'interestExpense'

The thesis, from the filings

NIKE, Inc. earns about 20% on invested capital, far above its ~9% cost of capital, and has bought back 8% of its shares over 5 years — the marks of a durable business run for its owners. The estimate methods put fair value between $23.54 and $35.48 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$46.7B1$51.2B2$51.4B3$46.3B3$46.4B3
Net income$6.05B4$5.07B5$5.7B6$3.22B6$3.11B6
Operating cash flow$5.19B7$5.84B8$7.43B9$3.7B9$2.87B9
Capital expenditure$758M10$969M11$812M12$430M12$684M12
Free cash flow (derived)$4.43B7$4.87B8$6.62B9$3.27B9$2.18B9
Total debt$18.9B13$17.9B14$17.8B15$15.9B16$15.9B16
Cash & equivalents$8.57B17$7.44B18$9.86B19$7.46B20$7.56B20
Diluted shares1.61B1.57B1.53B1.49B1.48B

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
$100.37
your share of equity
Profit it earned you last year
$20.99
Free cash flow it threw off
$14.75
Debt you’d be carrying
$107.25

10 shares is a claim on $100.37 of net worth that earned you $20.99 and generated $14.75 of cash last year, against $107.25 of debt.

iii. Is this a good business?
Moat signal · return on invested capital
20% avg · 5y
FY22 24%FY23 21%FY24 25%FY25 15%FY26 13%

It earned about 20% 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
−8% shares · 5y

Share count is down 8% over 5 years — management has been buying back stock, quietly handing owners a bigger slice. Total debt has fallen 16% — deleveraging.

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 $23.54 and $35.48 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
$23.54
assumptions (10)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • terminalGrowth2.5%
  • projectionYears10
  • fcfGrowth0.0%
  • fcfBase$3.27B
DCF · Growth Exit 5Y
$25.91
assumptions (10)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • terminalGrowth2.5%
  • projectionYears5
  • fcfGrowth0.0%
  • fcfBase$3.27B
Earnings Power Value
$35.48
assumptions (8)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • normalizedEarnings$5.07B
  • growthAssumed0.0%
Graham Number
$21.78
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 years0.0%
Discount rate (WACC)8.93%
Terminal growth2.5%
At your growth, a share is worth $25.91
The three cases
Bear0.0%$25.91
Base0.0%$25.91
Bull5.0%$33.54

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

Default growth 0.0%= 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 2022-05-31 · accession 0000320187-24-000044 (RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax)
  2. 10-K · period ending 2023-05-31 · accession 0000320187-25-000047 (RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax)
  3. 10-K · period ending 2024-05-31 · accession 0000320187-26-000088 (RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax)
  4. 10-K · period ending 2022-05-31 · accession 0000320187-24-000044 (NetIncomeLoss)
  5. 10-K · period ending 2023-05-31 · accession 0000320187-25-000047 (NetIncomeLoss)
  6. 10-K · period ending 2024-05-31 · accession 0000320187-26-000088 (NetIncomeLoss)
  7. 10-K · period ending 2022-05-31 · accession 0000320187-24-000044 (NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities)
  8. 10-K · period ending 2023-05-31 · accession 0000320187-25-000047 (NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities)
  9. 10-K · period ending 2024-05-31 · accession 0000320187-26-000088 (NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities)
  10. 10-K · period ending 2022-05-31 · accession 0000320187-24-000044 (PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment)
  11. 10-K · period ending 2023-05-31 · accession 0000320187-25-000047 (PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment)
  12. 10-K · period ending 2024-05-31 · accession 0000320187-26-000088 (PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment)
  13. 10-K · period ending 2022-05-31 · accession 0000320187-23-000039 (LongTermDebtNoncurrent)
  14. 10-K · period ending 2023-05-31 · accession 0000320187-24-000044 (LongTermDebtNoncurrent)
  15. 10-K · period ending 2024-05-31 · accession 0000320187-25-000047 (LongTermDebtNoncurrent)
  16. 10-K · period ending 2025-05-31 · accession 0000320187-26-000088 (LongTermDebtNoncurrent)
  17. 10-K · period ending 2022-05-31 · accession 0000320187-23-000039 (CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue)
  18. 10-K · period ending 2023-05-31 · accession 0000320187-24-000044 (CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue)
  19. 10-K · period ending 2024-05-31 · accession 0000320187-25-000047 (CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue)
  20. 10-K · period ending 2025-05-31 · accession 0000320187-26-000088 (CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue)