Ryman Hospitality Properties, Inc.

RHPdata completeness 88%17 fiscal years on file
The thesis, from the filings

Ryman Hospitality Properties, Inc. earns about 70% on equity, far above its ~9% cost of capital, but has diluted owners by 20% over 5 years — a real edge showing up in the numbers. The estimate methods put fair value between $38.25 and $217.29 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$939.4M1$1.81B2$2.16B3$2.34B3$2.58B3
Net income−$194.8M4$134.9M5$311.2M6$271.6M6$243.4M6
Operating cash flow$111.3M7$419.9M8$557.1M9$576.5M9$590.6M9
Capital expenditure$77.4M10$89.5M11$206.8M12$407.9M12$358.2M12
Free cash flow (derived)$33.8M7$330.4M8$350.3M9$168.6M9$232.4M9
Total debt
Cash & equivalents$140.7M13$334.2M14$591.8M15$477.7M15$471.4M15
Diluted shares55.0M55.4M58.1M63.6M66.0M

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
$113.73
your share of equity
Profit it earned you last year
$36.91
Free cash flow it threw off
$35.23
Debt you’d be carrying

10 shares is a claim on $113.73 of net worth that earned you $36.91 and generated $35.23 of cash last year.

iii. Is this a good business?
Moat signal · return on equity
70% avg · 5y
FY21 FY22 142%FY23 55%FY24 49%FY25 32%

It earned about 70% on equity, 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
+20% shares · 5y

Share count is up 20% 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 $38.25 and $217.29 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
$217.29
assumptions (10)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • terminalGrowth2.5%
  • projectionYears10
  • fcfGrowth20.0%
  • fcfBase$232.4M
DCF · Growth Exit 5Y
$122.02
assumptions (10)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • terminalGrowth2.5%
  • projectionYears5
  • fcfGrowth20.0%
  • fcfBase$232.4M
Earnings Power Value
$38.25
assumptions (8)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • normalizedEarnings$243.4M
  • growthAssumed0.0%
Graham Number
$31.06
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 $122.02
The three cases
Bear0.0%$57.49
Base20.0%$122.02
Bull20.0%$122.02

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. 10-K · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0001558370-24-001613 (RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax)
  2. 10-K · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001558370-25-001286 (RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax)
  3. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001104659-26-019035 (RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax)
  4. 10-K · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0001558370-24-001613 (ProfitLoss)
  5. 10-K · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001558370-25-001286 (ProfitLoss)
  6. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001104659-26-019035 (NetIncomeLoss)
  7. 10-K · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0001558370-24-001613 (NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities)
  8. 10-K · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001558370-25-001286 (NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities)
  9. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001104659-26-019035 (NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities)
  10. 10-K · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0001558370-24-001613 (PaymentsForCapitalImprovements)
  11. 10-K · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001558370-25-001286 (PaymentsForCapitalImprovements)
  12. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001104659-26-019035 (PaymentsForCapitalImprovements)
  13. 10-K · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0001558370-24-001613 (CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue)
  14. 10-K · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001558370-25-001286 (CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue)
  15. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001104659-26-019035 (CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue)