STARWOOD PROPERTY TRUST, INC.

STWDdata completeness 88%16 fiscal years on file
The thesis, from the filings

STARWOOD PROPERTY TRUST, INC. earns about 18% on invested capital, comfortably above its ~9% cost of capital, but has diluted owners by 18% over 5 years — a real edge showing up in the numbers. The estimate methods put fair value between $12.19 and $30.5 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$1.17B1$1.46B2$2.05B3$1.95B3$1.84B3
Net income$447.7M4$871.5M5$339.2M6$359.9M6$411.5M6
Operating cash flow−$990M7$213.7M8$528.6M9$646.6M9$977.9M9
Capital expenditure$010$010$878.5M10
Free cash flow (derived)$528.6M9$646.6M9$99.4M9
Total debt
Cash & equivalents$217.4M11$261.1M12$194.7M13$377.8M14$499.5M14
Diluted shares296.8M315.7M310.5M320.6M350.0M

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
$194.16
your share of equity
Profit it earned you last year
$11.76
Free cash flow it threw off
$2.84
Debt you’d be carrying

10 shares is a claim on $194.16 of net worth that earned you $11.76 and generated $2.84 of cash last year.

iii. Is this a good business?
Moat signal · return on invested capital
18% avg · 5y
FY21 16%FY22 29%FY23 31%FY24 6%FY25 7%

It earned about 18% 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
+18% shares · 5y

Share count is up 18% 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 $12.19 and $30.5 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
$30.5
assumptions (10)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • terminalGrowth2.5%
  • projectionYears10
  • fcfGrowth5.0%
  • fcfBase$528.6M
DCF · Growth Exit 5Y
$28.23
assumptions (10)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • terminalGrowth2.5%
  • projectionYears5
  • fcfGrowth5.0%
  • fcfBase$528.6M
Earnings Power Value
$12.19
assumptions (8)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • normalizedEarnings$411.5M
  • growthAssumed0.0%
Graham Number
$22.41
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 years5.0%
Discount rate (WACC)8.93%
Terminal growth2.5%
At your growth, a share is worth $28.23
The three cases
Bear0.0%$23.01
Base5.0%$28.23
Bull10.0%$34.48

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 0001628280-24-006128 (Revenues)
  2. 10-K · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001628280-25-008420 (Revenues)
  3. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001465128-26-000009 (Revenues)
  4. 10-K · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0001628280-24-006128 (NetIncomeLoss)
  5. 10-K · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001628280-25-008420 (NetIncomeLoss)
  6. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001465128-26-000009 (NetIncomeLoss)
  7. 10-K · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0001628280-24-006128 (NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities)
  8. 10-K · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001628280-25-008420 (NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities)
  9. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001465128-26-000009 (NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities)
  10. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001465128-26-000009 (PaymentsToAcquireProductiveAssets)
  11. 10-K · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0001628280-23-005726 (CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue)
  12. 10-K · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001628280-24-006128 (CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue)
  13. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001628280-25-008420 (CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue)
  14. 10-K · period ending 2024-12-31 · accession 0001465128-26-000009 (CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue)