Perfect Corp.

PERFdata completeness 88%6 fiscal years on file

Data notes: no data for concept 'totalDebt'; no data for concept 'interestExpense'

The thesis, from the filings

Perfect Corp. earns about -146% on invested capital, below its ~9% cost of capital, but has diluted owners by 92% over 5 years — no moat visible in the numbers. The estimate methods put fair value between $0.47 and $8.78 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$40.8M1$47.3M2$53.5M3$60.2M3$69.2M3
Net income−$156.9M4−$161.7M5$5.42M6$5.02M6$4.64M6
Operating cash flow$1.55M7−$3.31M8$13.6M9$13M9$13.3M9
Capital expenditure$154,00010$165,00011$289,00012$392,00012$425,00012
Free cash flow (derived)$1.39M7−$3.47M8$13.3M9$12.6M9$12.9M9
Total debt
Cash & equivalents$80.5M13$162.6M14$123.9M14$127.1M14$126M14
Diluted shares53.0M68.3M118.0M101.8M101.8M

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
$15.03
your share of equity
Profit it earned you last year
$0.46
Free cash flow it threw off
$1.26
Debt you’d be carrying

10 shares is a claim on $15.03 of net worth that earned you $0.46 and generated $1.26 of cash last year.

iii. Is this a good business?
Moat signal · return on invested capital
-146% avg · 5y
FY21 FY22 -659%FY23 35%FY24 22%FY25 17%

It earned about -146% 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
+92% shares · 5y

Share count is up 92% 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 3 estimate methods that apply put fair value between $0.47 and $8.78 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
$8.78
assumptions (10)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • terminalGrowth2.5%
  • projectionYears10
  • fcfGrowth20.0%
  • fcfBase$12.9M
DCF · Growth Exit 5Y
$5.36
assumptions (10)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • terminalGrowth2.5%
  • projectionYears5
  • fcfGrowth20.0%
  • fcfBase$12.9M
Earnings Power Value
$0.47
assumptions (8)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • normalizedEarnings$4.64M
  • growthAssumed0.0%
Graham Number
$1.3
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 $5.36
The three cases
Bear0.0%$3.04
Base20.0%$5.36
Bull20.0%$5.36

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 0001899830-24-000014 (Revenue)
  2. 20-F · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001899830-25-000015 (Revenue)
  3. 20-F · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001899830-26-000013 (Revenue)
  4. 20-F · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0001899830-24-000014 (ProfitLossAttributableToOwnersOfParent)
  5. 20-F · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001899830-25-000015 (ProfitLossAttributableToOwnersOfParent)
  6. 20-F · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001899830-26-000013 (ProfitLossAttributableToOwnersOfParent)
  7. 20-F · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0001899830-24-000014 (CashFlowsFromUsedInOperatingActivities)
  8. 20-F · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001899830-25-000015 (CashFlowsFromUsedInOperatingActivities)
  9. 20-F · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001899830-26-000013 (CashFlowsFromUsedInOperatingActivities)
  10. 20-F · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0001899830-24-000014 (PurchaseOfPropertyPlantAndEquipmentClassifiedAsInvestingActivities)
  11. 20-F · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001899830-25-000015 (PurchaseOfPropertyPlantAndEquipmentClassifiedAsInvestingActivities)
  12. 20-F · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001899830-26-000013 (PurchaseOfPropertyPlantAndEquipmentClassifiedAsInvestingActivities)
  13. 20-F · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0001899830-25-000015 (CashAndCashEquivalents)
  14. 20-F · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001899830-26-000013 (CashAndCashEquivalents)