Reddit, Inc.

RDDTdata completeness 88%4 fiscal years on file

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

The thesis, from the filings

Reddit, Inc. earns about 1% on invested capital, below its ~9% cost of capital, but has diluted owners by 253% over 4 years — no moat visible in the numbers. The estimate methods put fair value between $23.67 and $25.27 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 2025
Revenue$666.7M1$804M2$1.3B2$2.2B2
Net income−$158.6M3−$90.8M4−$484.3M4$529.7M4
Operating cash flow−$94M5−$75.1M6$222.1M6$690.9M6
Capital expenditure$6.23M7$9.72M8$6.25M8$6.71M8
Free cash flow (derived)−$100.3M5−$84.8M6$215.8M6$684.2M6
Total debt
Cash & equivalents$435.8M9$401.2M10$562.1M10$953.6M10
Diluted shares57.3M59.1M145.5M202.1M

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
$144.92
your share of equity
Profit it earned you last year
$26.21
Free cash flow it threw off
$33.85
Debt you’d be carrying

10 shares is a claim on $144.92 of net worth that earned you $26.21 and generated $33.85 of cash last year.

iii. Is this a good business?
Moat signal · return on invested capital
1% avg · 4y
FY22 FY23 FY24 -24%FY25 27%

It earned about 1% 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
+253% shares · 4y

Share count is up 253% over 4 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 $23.67 and $25.27 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
$25.27
assumptions (10)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • terminalGrowth2.5%
  • projectionYears10
  • fcfGrowth5.0%
  • fcfBase$215.8M
DCF · Growth Exit 5Y
$23.67
assumptions (10)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • terminalGrowth2.5%
  • projectionYears5
  • fcfGrowth5.0%
  • fcfBase$215.8M
Earnings Power Value
not applicable
normalized (5y-median) earnings non-positive — EPV undefined
Graham Number
$29.23
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 $23.67
The three cases
Bear0.0%$19.98
Base5.0%$23.67
Bull10.0%$28.09

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 2022-12-31 · accession 0001713445-25-000018 (RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax)
  2. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001713445-26-000022 (RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax)
  3. 10-K · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001713445-25-000018 (NetIncomeLoss)
  4. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001713445-26-000022 (NetIncomeLoss)
  5. 10-K · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001713445-25-000018 (NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities)
  6. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001713445-26-000022 (NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities)
  7. 10-K · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001713445-25-000018 (PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment)
  8. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001713445-26-000022 (PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment)
  9. 10-K · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001713445-25-000018 (CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue)
  10. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001713445-26-000022 (CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue)