CL Workshop Group Ltd

NWGLdata completeness 100%4 fiscal years on file
The thesis, from the filings

CL Workshop Group Ltd earns about -3% on invested capital, below its ~9% cost of capital, with a roughly flat share count — no moat visible in the numbers. The estimate methods put fair value between $0.33 and $0.65 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 2024
Revenue$47.7M1$55.3M2$25.5M2$21.5M2
Net income$1.33M3$4.78M4−$11.9M4−$8.73M4
Operating cash flow$3.25M5$5.87M6−$239,2286$2.32M6
Capital expenditure$2.53M7$1.2M8$116,4048$754,7598
Free cash flow (derived)$718,2585$4.67M6−$355,6326$1.56M6
Total debt$12.8M9$12.8M10$10.4M10
Cash & equivalents$3.55M11$5.08M11$3.98M11$2.96M11
Diluted shares132.4M132.4M

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
$0.69
your share of equity
Profit it earned you last year
−$0.66
Free cash flow it threw off
$0.12
Debt you’d be carrying
$0.78

10 shares is a claim on $0.69 of net worth that earned you −$0.66 and generated $0.12 of cash last year, against $0.78 of debt.

iii. Is this a good business?
Moat signal · return on invested capital
-3% avg · 4y
FY21 35%FY22 26%FY23 -33%FY24 -39%

It earned about -3% 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
−0% shares · 4y

Share count is roughly flat over 4 years — little dilution, little buyback. Total debt has fallen 19% — 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 2 estimate methods that apply put fair value between $0.33 and $0.65 a share. They rest on different assumptions, so where they diverge is the story.

DCF · Growth Exit 10Y
$0.65
assumptions (10)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • terminalGrowth2.5%
  • projectionYears10
  • fcfGrowth20.0%
  • fcfBase$1.56M
DCF · Growth Exit 5Y
$0.33
assumptions (10)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • terminalGrowth2.5%
  • projectionYears5
  • fcfGrowth20.0%
  • fcfBase$1.56M
Earnings Power Value
not applicable
normalized (5y-median) earnings non-positive — EPV undefined
Graham Number
not applicable
diluted EPS missing or non-positive — Graham Number undefined

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 $0.33
The three cases
Bear0.0%$0.11
Base20.0%$0.33
Bull20.0%$0.33

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. 20-F · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0001493152-24-015976 (Revenue)
  2. 20-F · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001641172-25-008047 (Revenue)
  3. 20-F · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0001493152-24-015976 (ProfitLoss)
  4. 20-F · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001641172-25-008047 (ProfitLoss)
  5. 20-F · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0001493152-24-015976 (CashFlowsFromUsedInOperatingActivities)
  6. 20-F · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001641172-25-008047 (CashFlowsFromUsedInOperatingActivities)
  7. 20-F · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0001493152-24-015976 (PurchaseOfPropertyPlantAndEquipmentClassifiedAsInvestingActivities)
  8. 20-F · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001641172-25-008047 (PurchaseOfPropertyPlantAndEquipmentClassifiedAsInvestingActivities)
  9. 20-F · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001493152-24-015976 (Borrowings)
  10. 20-F · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001641172-25-008047 (Borrowings)
  11. 20-F · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0001641172-25-008047 (CashAndCashEquivalents)