Star Bulk Carriers Corp. earns about 25% on invested capital, far above its ~9% cost of capital, but has diluted owners by 14% over 5 years — a real edge showing up in the numbers. The estimate methods put fair value between $26.4 and $41.61 a share. Whether it’s worth owning at today’s price is the last question — and yours to answer, below.
| Figure | FY 2021 | FY 2022 | FY 2023 | FY 2024 | FY 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | $1.43B1 | $1.44B2 | $949.3M3 | $1.27B3 | $1.04B3 |
| Net income | $680.5M4 | $566M5 | $173.6M6 | $304.7M6 | $84.2M6 |
| Operating cash flow | $767.1M7 | $769.9M8 | $335.8M9 | $471.2M9 | $295.9M9 |
| Capital expenditure | $130.1M10 | $25.4M11 | $18.1M12 | $55.1M12 | $84M12 |
| Free cash flow (derived) | $636.9M7,10 | $744.5M8,11 | $317.7M9,12 | $416.1M9,12 | $211.9M9,12 |
| Total debt | — | — | — | — | — |
| Cash & equivalents | $450.3M13 | $269.8M14 | $227.5M15 | $425.1M15 | $488.5M15 |
| Diluted shares | 101.5M | 102.5M | 98.9M | 108.7M | 115.4M |
Superscripts are receipts. Each links to the SEC filing the number came from (full list at the bottom). A derived or summed figure cites every filing line it was built from.
10 shares is a claim on $212.2 of net worth that earned you $7.29 and generated $18.36 of cash last year.
It earned about 25% on invested capital, 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 →Share count is up 14% 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.
The 3 estimate methods that apply put fair value between $26.4 and $41.61 a share. They rest on different assumptions, so where they diverge is the story; the Graham Number is a conservative ceiling on what a defensive investor should pay, not a target.
assumptions (10)
- Risk-free rate (10Y Treasury)5.00%
- Equity risk premium5.00%
- Beta (β)1.00
- Equity share of capital85.0%
- Debt spread over risk-free1.50%
- Tax rate21.0%
- Terminal growth2.50%
- Projection period10 years
- FCF growth0.0%
- Starting free cash flow$317.7M
assumptions (10)
- Risk-free rate (10Y Treasury)5.00%
- Equity risk premium5.00%
- Beta (β)1.00
- Equity share of capital85.0%
- Debt spread over risk-free1.50%
- Tax rate21.0%
- Terminal growth2.50%
- Projection period5 years
- FCF growth0.0%
- Starting free cash flow$317.7M
assumptions (8)
- Risk-free rate (10Y Treasury)5.00%
- Equity risk premium5.00%
- Beta (β)1.00
- Equity share of capital85.0%
- Debt spread over risk-free1.50%
- Tax rate21.0%
- Normalized earnings$304.7M
- Growth assumed0.0%
Different models answer different questions — which to trust when →
| Bear | 0.0% | $41.61 |
| Base | 0.0% | $41.61 |
| Bull | 5.0% | $50.6 |
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.
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