SIRIUS XM HOLDINGS INC.

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

SIRIUS XM HOLDINGS INC. earns about 2% on invested capital, below its ~9% cost of capital, and has bought back 91% of its shares over 5 years — no moat visible in the numbers. The estimate methods put fair value between $23.37 and $47.45 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$8.7B1$9B2$8.95B3$8.7B3$8.56B3
Net income$1.31B4$908M5$786M6−$1.67B6$805M6
Operating cash flow$2B7$1.98B8$1.83B9$1.74B9$1.9B9
Capital expenditure$388M10$426M11$650M12$728M12$653M12
Free cash flow (derived)$1.61B7$1.56B8$1.18B9$1.01B9$1.25B9
Total debt
Cash & equivalents$191M13$362M14$306M15$162M15$94M15
Diluted shares4.14B368.0M362.0M338.0M357.0M

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
$323.89
your share of equity
Profit it earned you last year
$22.55
Free cash flow it threw off
$34.87
Debt you’d be carrying

10 shares is a claim on $323.89 of net worth that earned you $22.55 and generated $34.87 of cash last year.

iii. Is this a good business?
Moat signal · return on invested capital
2% avg · 5y
FY21 FY22 FY23 14%FY24 -14%FY25 7%

It earned about 2% 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
−91% shares · 5y

Share count is down 91% over 5 years — management has been buying back stock, quietly handing owners a bigger slice.

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 $23.37 and $47.45 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
$43.9
assumptions (10)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • terminalGrowth2.5%
  • projectionYears10
  • fcfGrowth0.0%
  • fcfBase$1.18B
DCF · Growth Exit 5Y
$47.45
assumptions (10)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • terminalGrowth2.5%
  • projectionYears5
  • fcfGrowth0.0%
  • fcfBase$1.18B
Earnings Power Value
$23.37
assumptions (8)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • normalizedEarnings$805M
  • growthAssumed0.0%
Graham Number
$40.31
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 years0.0%
Discount rate (WACC)8.93%
Terminal growth2.5%
At your growth, a share is worth $47.45
The three cases
Bear0.0%$47.45
Base0.0%$47.45
Bull5.0%$58.87

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 2021-12-31 · accession 0000908937-24-000008 (RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax)
  2. 10-K · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0000908937-25-000005 (RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax)
  3. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0000908937-26-000006 (RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax)
  4. 10-K · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0000908937-24-000008 (NetIncomeLoss)
  5. 10-K · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0000908937-25-000005 (NetIncomeLoss)
  6. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0000908937-26-000006 (NetIncomeLoss)
  7. 10-K · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0000908937-24-000008 (NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities)
  8. 10-K · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0000908937-25-000005 (NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities)
  9. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0000908937-26-000006 (NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities)
  10. 10-K · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0000908937-24-000008 (PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment)
  11. 10-K · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0000908937-25-000005 (PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment)
  12. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0000908937-26-000006 (PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment)
  13. 10-K · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0000908937-24-000008 (CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue)
  14. 10-K · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0000908937-25-000005 (CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue)
  15. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0000908937-26-000006 (CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue)