SkinHealth Systems Inc.

SKINdata completeness 88%7 fiscal years on file

Data notes: no data for concept 'totalDebt'

The thesis, from the filings

SkinHealth Systems Inc. earns about -68% on equity, below its ~9% cost of capital, but has diluted owners by 33% over 5 years — no moat visible in the numbers. The estimate methods put fair value between $4.06 and $4.25 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$260.1M1$365.9M2$398M3$334.3M3$300.8M3
Net income−$378.8M4$44.2M5−$100.1M6−$29.1M6−$9.52M6
Operating cash flow−$28.4M7−$106.6M8$21.8M9$16.1M9$37.5M9
Capital expenditure$11.2M10$10.8M11$3.83M12$756,00012$303,00012
Free cash flow (derived)−$39.6M7−$117.4M8$17.9M9$15.4M9$37.2M9
Total debt
Cash & equivalents$901.9M13$568.2M14$523M14$370.1M15$232.7M15
Diluted shares102.1M148.5M131.7M142.5M135.8M

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
$4.5
your share of equity
Profit it earned you last year
−$0.7
Free cash flow it threw off
$2.74
Debt you’d be carrying

10 shares is a claim on $4.5 of net worth that earned you −$0.7 and generated $2.74 of cash last year.

iii. Is this a good business?
Moat signal · return on equity
-68% avg · 5y
FY21 -127%FY22 26%FY23 -169%FY24 -56%FY25 -16%

It earned about -68% on equity 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
+33% shares · 5y

Share count is up 33% 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 2 estimate methods that apply put fair value between $4.06 and $4.25 a share. They rest on different assumptions, so where they diverge is the story.

DCF · Growth Exit 10Y
$4.25
assumptions (10)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • terminalGrowth2.5%
  • projectionYears10
  • fcfGrowth5.0%
  • fcfBase$17.9M
DCF · Growth Exit 5Y
$4.06
assumptions (10)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • terminalGrowth2.5%
  • projectionYears5
  • fcfGrowth5.0%
  • fcfBase$17.9M
Earnings Power Value
not applicable
normalized (5y-median) earnings non-positive — EPV undefined
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 years5.0%
Discount rate (WACC)8.93%
Terminal growth2.5%
At your growth, a share is worth $4.06
The three cases
Bear0.0%$3.6
Base5.0%$4.06
Bull10.0%$4.6

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 2021-12-31 · accession 0001628280-24-010638 (RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax)
  2. 10-K · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001628280-25-012407 (RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax)
  3. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001628280-26-017376 (RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax)
  4. 10-K · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0001628280-24-010638 (NetIncomeLoss)
  5. 10-K · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001628280-25-012407 (NetIncomeLoss)
  6. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001628280-26-017376 (NetIncomeLoss)
  7. 10-K · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0001628280-24-010638 (NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities)
  8. 10-K · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001628280-25-012407 (NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities)
  9. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001628280-26-017376 (NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities)
  10. 10-K · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0001628280-24-010638 (PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment)
  11. 10-K · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001628280-25-012407 (PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment)
  12. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001628280-26-017376 (PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment)
  13. 10-K · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0001818093-23-000006 (CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue)
  14. 10-K · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001628280-24-010638 (CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue)
  15. 10-K · period ending 2024-12-31 · accession 0001628280-26-017376 (CashCashEquivalentsRestrictedCashAndRestrictedCashEquivalents)