StubHub Holdings, Inc.

STUBdata completeness 100%3 fiscal years on file

Data notes: no data for concept 'interestExpense'

The thesis, from the filings

StubHub Holdings, Inc. earns about 11% on invested capital, comfortably above its ~9% cost of capital, but has diluted owners by 4% over 3 years — a real edge showing up in the numbers. The estimate methods put fair value between $8.89 and $10.12 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 2023FY 2024FY 2025
Revenue$1.37B1$1.77B1$1.75B1
Net income$405.2M2−$2.8M2−$1.91B2
Operating cash flow$307.4M3$261.5M3$192.6M3
Capital expenditure$1.72M4$1.67M4$1.39M4
Free cash flow (derived)$305.7M3$259.8M3$191.2M3
Total debt$4.66B5$3.01B5
Cash & equivalents$775.7M6$1B6$1.24B6
Diluted shares307.8M304.4M319.2M

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
$37.08
your share of equity
Profit it earned you last year
−$59.7
Free cash flow it threw off
$5.99
Debt you’d be carrying
$94.41

10 shares is a claim on $37.08 of net worth that earned you −$59.7 and generated $5.99 of cash last year, against $94.41 of debt.

iii. Is this a good business?
Moat signal · return on invested capital
11% avg · 3y
FY23 75%FY24 0%FY25 -41%

It earned about 11% on invested capital against a ~9% cost of capital — comfortably above the cost of funding, a moderate advantage.

seeing a moat in the numbers →
Management signal · capital allocation
+4% shares · 3y

Share count is up 4% over 3 years — owners have been diluted. Worth asking what they got for it. Total debt has fallen 35% — 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 2 estimate methods that apply put fair value between $8.89 and $10.12 a share. They rest on different assumptions, so where they diverge is the story.

DCF · Growth Exit 10Y
$10.12
assumptions (10)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • terminalGrowth2.5%
  • projectionYears10
  • fcfGrowth5.0%
  • fcfBase$259.8M
DCF · Growth Exit 5Y
$8.89
assumptions (10)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • terminalGrowth2.5%
  • projectionYears5
  • fcfGrowth5.0%
  • fcfBase$259.8M
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 $8.89
The three cases
Bear0.0%$6.08
Base5.0%$8.89
Bull10.0%$12.26

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 2023-12-31 · accession 0001628280-26-014844 (RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax)
  2. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001628280-26-014844 (NetIncomeLoss)
  3. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001628280-26-014844 (NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities)
  4. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001628280-26-014844 (PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment)
  5. 10-K · period ending 2024-12-31 · accession 0001628280-26-014844 (LongTermDebtNoncurrent)
  6. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001628280-26-014844 (CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue)