RESOURCES CONNECTION, INC.

RGPdata completeness 88%18 fiscal years on file
The thesis, from the filings

RESOURCES CONNECTION, INC. earns about -23% 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 $6.5 and $9.35 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$805M1$775.6M2$632.8M3$551.3M3$452M3
Net income$67.2M4$54.4M5$21M6−$191.8M6−$40.6M6
Operating cash flow$49.4M7$81.6M8$21.9M9$18.9M9$1.43M9
Capital expenditure$2.96M10$2.01M11$1.14M12$2.71M12$808,00012
Free cash flow (derived)$46.5M7$79.6M8$20.8M9$16.2M9$619,0009
Total debt$54M13$014$015$015
Cash & equivalents$104.2M16$116.8M16$108.9M17$86.1M18$82.4M18
Diluted shares33.6M34.2M33.9M33.1M33.6M

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
$50.6
your share of equity
Profit it earned you last year
−$12.1
Free cash flow it threw off
$0.18
Debt you’d be carrying

10 shares is a claim on $50.6 of net worth that earned you −$12.1 and generated $0.18 of cash last year.

iii. Is this a good business?
Moat signal · return on invested capital
-23% avg · 5y
FY22 21%FY23 18%FY24 7%FY25 -128%FY26 -34%

It earned about -23% 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 · 5y

Share count is roughly flat over 5 years — little dilution, little buyback. Total debt has fallen 100% — 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 $6.5 and $9.35 a share. They rest on different assumptions, so where they diverge is the story.

DCF · Growth Exit 10Y
$8.83
assumptions (10)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • terminalGrowth2.5%
  • projectionYears10
  • fcfGrowth0.0%
  • fcfBase$16.2M
DCF · Growth Exit 5Y
$9.35
assumptions (10)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • terminalGrowth2.5%
  • projectionYears5
  • fcfGrowth0.0%
  • fcfBase$16.2M
Earnings Power Value
$6.5
assumptions (8)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • normalizedEarnings$21M
  • growthAssumed0.0%
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 years0.0%
Discount rate (WACC)8.93%
Terminal growth2.5%
At your growth, a share is worth $9.35
The three cases
Bear0.0%$9.35
Base0.0%$9.35
Bull5.0%$11.02

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 2022-05-28 · accession 0001084765-24-000089 (RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax)
  2. 10-K · period ending 2023-05-27 · accession 0001084765-25-000115 (RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax)
  3. 10-K · period ending 2024-05-25 · accession 0001084765-26-000051 (RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax)
  4. 10-K · period ending 2022-05-28 · accession 0001084765-24-000089 (NetIncomeLoss)
  5. 10-K · period ending 2023-05-27 · accession 0001084765-25-000115 (NetIncomeLoss)
  6. 10-K · period ending 2024-05-25 · accession 0001084765-26-000051 (NetIncomeLoss)
  7. 10-K · period ending 2022-05-28 · accession 0001084765-24-000089 (NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities)
  8. 10-K · period ending 2023-05-27 · accession 0001084765-25-000115 (NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities)
  9. 10-K · period ending 2024-05-25 · accession 0001084765-26-000051 (NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities)
  10. 10-K · period ending 2022-05-28 · accession 0001084765-24-000089 (PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment)
  11. 10-K · period ending 2023-05-27 · accession 0001084765-25-000115 (PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment)
  12. 10-K · period ending 2024-05-25 · accession 0001084765-26-000051 (PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment)
  13. 10-K · period ending 2022-05-28 · accession 0001084765-23-000016 (LongTermDebtNoncurrent)
  14. 10-K · period ending 2023-05-27 · accession 0001084765-24-000089 (LongTermDebtNoncurrent)
  15. 10-K · period ending 2024-05-25 · accession 0001084765-25-000115 (LongTermDebtNoncurrent)
  16. 10-K · period ending 2022-05-28 · accession 0001084765-24-000089 (CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue)
  17. 10-K · period ending 2024-05-25 · accession 0001084765-25-000115 (CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue)
  18. 10-K · period ending 2025-05-31 · accession 0001084765-26-000051 (CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue)