Seagate Technology Holdings plc

STXdata completeness 100%18 fiscal years on file

Data notes: no data for concept 'investmentsAtFairValue'; no data for concept 'netInvestmentIncome'

The thesis, from the filings

Seagate Technology Holdings plc earns about 33% on invested capital, far above its ~9% cost of capital, but has diluted owners by 2% over 5 years — a real edge showing up in the numbers. The estimate methods put fair value between $39.14 and $66.54 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 2022FY 2023FY 2024FY 2025FY 2026
Revenue$11.7B1$7.38B2$6.55B3$9.1B3$12.2B3
Net income$1.65B4−$529M5$335M6$1.47B6$3.18B6
Operating cash flow$1.66B7$942M8$918M9$1.08B9$3.67B9
Capital expenditure$381M10$316M11$254M12$265M12$569M12
Free cash flow (derived)$1.28B7$626M8$664M9$818M9$3.11B9
Total debt$6.61B13$5.45B14$5.67B15$5B16$3.57B16
Cash & equivalents$615M17$786M18$1.36B19$891M19$1.7B19
Diluted shares224.0M207.0M212.0M217.0M229.0M

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
$94.63
your share of equity
Profit it earned you last year
$139.04
Free cash flow it threw off
$135.59
Debt you’d be carrying
$155.68

10 shares is a claim on $94.63 of net worth that earned you $139.04 and generated $135.59 of cash last year, against $155.68 of debt.

iii. Is this a good business?
Moat signal · return on invested capital
33% avg · 5y
FY22 31%FY23 -4%FY24 21%FY25 40%FY26 79%

It earned about 33% 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 →
Management signal · capital allocation
+2% shares · 5y

Share count is up 2% over 5 years — owners have been diluted. Worth asking what they got for it. Total debt has fallen 46% — 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 v0.5.0

The 3 estimate methods that apply put fair value between $39.14 and $66.54 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
$39.14
assumptions (10)
  • riskFreeRate4.6%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • terminalGrowth2.5%
  • projectionYears10
  • fcfGrowth0.0%
  • fcfBase$818M
DCF · Growth Exit 5Y
$42.99
assumptions (10)
  • riskFreeRate4.6%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • terminalGrowth2.5%
  • projectionYears5
  • fcfGrowth0.0%
  • fcfBase$818M
Earnings Power Value
$66.54
assumptions (8)
  • riskFreeRate4.6%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • normalizedEarnings$1.47B
  • growthAssumed0.0%
Graham Number
$54.67
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)8.92%
Terminal growth2.5%
At your growth, a share is worth $42.99
The three cases
Bear0.0%$42.99
Base0.0%$42.99
Bull5.0%$55.36

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 2022-07-01 · accession 0001137789-24-000068 (RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax)
  2. 10-K · period ending 2023-06-30 · accession 0001137789-25-000157 (RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax)
  3. 10-K · period ending 2024-06-28 · accession 0001137789-26-000159 (RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax)
  4. 10-K · period ending 2022-07-01 · accession 0001137789-24-000068 (NetIncomeLoss)
  5. 10-K · period ending 2023-06-30 · accession 0001137789-25-000157 (NetIncomeLoss)
  6. 10-K · period ending 2024-06-28 · accession 0001137789-26-000159 (NetIncomeLoss)
  7. 10-K · period ending 2022-07-01 · accession 0001137789-24-000068 (NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities)
  8. 10-K · period ending 2023-06-30 · accession 0001137789-25-000157 (NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities)
  9. 10-K · period ending 2024-06-28 · accession 0001137789-26-000159 (NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities)
  10. 10-K · period ending 2022-07-01 · accession 0001137789-24-000068 (PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment)
  11. 10-K · period ending 2023-06-30 · accession 0001137789-25-000157 (PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment)
  12. 10-K · period ending 2024-06-28 · accession 0001137789-26-000159 (PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment)
  13. 10-K · period ending 2022-07-01 · accession 0001137789-23-000049 (LongTermDebtNoncurrent)
  14. 10-K · period ending 2023-06-30 · accession 0001137789-24-000068 (LongTermDebtNoncurrent)
  15. 10-K · period ending 2024-06-28 · accession 0001137789-25-000157 (LongTermDebtNoncurrent)
  16. 10-K · period ending 2025-06-27 · accession 0001137789-26-000159 (LongTermDebtNoncurrent)
  17. 10-K · period ending 2022-07-01 · accession 0001137789-24-000068 (CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue)
  18. 10-K · period ending 2023-06-30 · accession 0001137789-25-000157 (CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue)
  19. 10-K · period ending 2024-06-28 · accession 0001137789-26-000159 (CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue)