Third Coast Bancshares, Inc.

TCBXdata completeness 63%7 fiscal years on file

Data notes: no data for concept 'revenue'; no data for concept 'totalDebt'

The thesis, from the filings

Third Coast Bancshares, Inc. earns about 117% on invested capital, far above its ~9% cost of capital, but has diluted owners by 115% over 5 years — a real edge showing up in the numbers. The estimate methods put fair value between $19.8 and $46.78 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
Net income$11.4M1$18.7M2$33.4M3$47.7M3$66.3M3
Operating cash flow$4.58M4$21.8M5$39.1M6$35.1M6$50.8M6
Capital expenditure$5.62M7$12.2M8$3.44M8$1.77M8
Free cash flow (derived)−$1.04M4$9.6M5$35.6M6$33.4M6
Total debt
Cash & equivalents$326.7M9$329.9M10$296.9M11$371.2M12$175.2M12
Diluted shares8.1M13.8M16.9M17.1M17.5M

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
$303.84
your share of equity
Profit it earned you last year
$37.93
Free cash flow it threw off
Debt you’d be carrying

10 shares is a claim on $303.84 of net worth that earned you $37.93 last year.

iii. Is this a good business?
Moat signal · return on invested capital
117% avg · 5y
FY21 FY22 94%FY23 118%FY24 193%FY25 63%

It earned about 117% 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
+115% shares · 5y

Share count is up 115% 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 $19.8 and $46.78 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
$46.78
assumptions (10)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • terminalGrowth2.5%
  • projectionYears10
  • fcfGrowth5.0%
  • fcfBase$33.4M
DCF · Growth Exit 5Y
$43.91
assumptions (10)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • terminalGrowth2.5%
  • projectionYears5
  • fcfGrowth5.0%
  • fcfBase$33.4M
Earnings Power Value
$19.8
assumptions (8)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • normalizedEarnings$33.4M
  • growthAssumed0.0%
Graham Number
$50.9
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 $43.91
The three cases
Bear0.0%$37.3
Base5.0%$43.91
Bull10.0%$51.81

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 0000950170-24-027956 (NetIncomeLoss)
  2. 10-K · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0000950170-25-033724 (NetIncomeLoss)
  3. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001193125-26-091656 (NetIncomeLoss)
  4. 10-K · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0000950170-24-027956 (NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities)
  5. 10-K · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0000950170-25-033724 (NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities)
  6. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001193125-26-091656 (NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities)
  7. 10-K · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0000950170-24-027956 (PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment)
  8. 10-K · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0000950170-25-033724 (PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment)
  9. 10-K · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0000950170-23-008204 (CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue)
  10. 10-K · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0000950170-24-027956 (CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue)
  11. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0000950170-25-033724 (CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue)
  12. 10-K · period ending 2024-12-31 · accession 0001193125-26-091656 (CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue)