Ternium S.A.

TXdata completeness 100%11 fiscal years on file

Data notes: no data for concept 'interestExpense'

The thesis, from the filings

Ternium S.A. earns about 15% on invested capital, comfortably above its ~9% cost of capital, with a roughly flat share count — a real edge showing up in the numbers. The estimate methods put fair value between $0.12 and $3.49 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$16.1B1$16.4B2$17.6B3$17.6B3$15.6B3
Net income$3.83B4$1.77B5$676M6−$53.7M6$425.2M6
Operating cash flow$2.68B7$2.75B8$2.5B9$1.91B9$2.31B9
Capital expenditure$523.6M10$580.6M10$1.2B11$1.82B12$2.66B12
Free cash flow (derived)$2.15B7$2.17B8$1.3B9$85M9−$345.5M9
Total debt$1.48B13$1.03B14$2.15B15$2.23B16$2.42B16
Cash & equivalents$1.28B17$1.65B18$1.85B18$1.69B18$1.53B18
Diluted shares2.00B2.00B2.00B2.00B2.00B

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
$59.58
your share of equity
Profit it earned you last year
$2.12
Free cash flow it threw off
−$1.72
Debt you’d be carrying
$12.07

10 shares is a claim on $59.58 of net worth that earned you $2.12 and generated −$1.72 of cash last year, against $12.07 of debt.

iii. Is this a good business?
Moat signal · return on invested capital
15% avg · 5y
FY21 41%FY22 19%FY23 8%FY24 3%FY25 3%

It earned about 15% 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
−0% shares · 5y

Share count is roughly flat over 5 years — little dilution, little buyback. Total debt has risen 64% over the same window.

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 $0.12 and $3.49 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
$0.12
assumptions (10)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • terminalGrowth2.5%
  • projectionYears10
  • fcfGrowth0.0%
  • fcfBase$85M
DCF · Growth Exit 5Y
$0.16
assumptions (10)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • terminalGrowth2.5%
  • projectionYears5
  • fcfGrowth0.0%
  • fcfBase$85M
Earnings Power Value
$3.49
assumptions (8)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • normalizedEarnings$676M
  • growthAssumed0.0%
Graham Number
$5.43
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)8.93%
Terminal growth2.5%
At your growth, a share is worth $0.16
The three cases
Bear0.0%$0.16
Base0.0%$0.16
Bull5.0%$0.31

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. 20-F · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0001342874-24-000018 (Revenue)
  2. 20-F · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001342874-25-000024 (Revenue)
  3. 20-F · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001342874-26-000020 (Revenue)
  4. 20-F · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0001342874-24-000018 (ProfitLossAttributableToOwnersOfParent)
  5. 20-F · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001342874-25-000024 (ProfitLossAttributableToOwnersOfParent)
  6. 20-F · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001342874-26-000020 (ProfitLossAttributableToOwnersOfParent)
  7. 20-F · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0001342874-24-000018 (CashFlowsFromUsedInOperatingActivities)
  8. 20-F · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001342874-25-000024 (CashFlowsFromUsedInOperatingActivities)
  9. 20-F · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001342874-26-000020 (CashFlowsFromUsedInOperatingActivities)
  10. 20-F · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0001342874-23-000021 (PurchaseOfPropertyPlantAndEquipmentClassifiedAsInvestingActivities)
  11. 20-F · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001342874-24-000018 (PurchaseOfPropertyPlantAndEquipmentClassifiedAsInvestingActivities)
  12. 20-F · period ending 2024-12-31 · accession 0001342874-26-000020 (PurchaseOfPropertyPlantAndEquipmentClassifiedAsInvestingActivities)
  13. 20-F · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0001342874-23-000021 (Borrowings)
  14. 20-F · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001342874-24-000018 (Borrowings)
  15. 20-F · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001342874-25-000024 (Borrowings)
  16. 20-F · period ending 2024-12-31 · accession 0001342874-26-000020 (Borrowings)
  17. 20-F · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0001342874-25-000024 (CashAndCashEquivalents)
  18. 20-F · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001342874-26-000020 (CashAndCashEquivalents)