⁠Dimitry Nakhla | Babylon Capital®
RT @DimitryNakhla: A quality valuation analysis on $INTU 🧘🏽‍♂️

•NTM P/E Ratio: 29.70x
•10-Year Mean: 33.57x

•NTM FCF Yield: 3.49%
•10-Year Mean: 3.68%

As you can see, $INTU appears to be trading somewhere below fair value & near fair value

Going forward, investors can receive ~12% MORE in earnings per share & ~5% LESS in FCF per share 🧠***

Before we get into valuation, let’s take a look at why $INTU is a good business

BALANCE SHEET✅
•Cash & Short-Term Inv: $3.36B
•Long-Term Debt: $5.63B

$INTU has a strong balance sheet, an A- S&P Credit Rating & 22x FFO Interest Coverage

RETURN ON CAPITAL✅
•2019: 43.9%
•2020: 25.2%
•2021: 19.7%
•2022: 10.7%
•2023: 13.1%
•2024: 15.4%

RETURN ON EQUITY✅
•2019: 47.4%
•2020: 41.2%
•2021: 27.5%
•2022: 15.7%
•2023: 14.1%
•2024: 16.6%

$INTU has strong return metrics, highlighting the financial efficiency of the business

REVENUES✅
•2014: $4.24B
•2024: $16.29B
•CAGR: 14.40%

FREE CASH FLOW✅
•2014: $1.34B
•2024: $4.69B
•CAGR: 13.34%

NORMALIZED EPS✅
•2014: $3.49
•2024: $16.94
•CAGR: 17.11%

PAID DIVIDENDS✅
•2014: $0.76
•2024: $3.60
•CAGR: 16.82%

SHARE BUYBACKS🆗
•2014 Shares Outstanding: 291.00M
•LTM Shares Outstanding: 284.00M

By reducing its shares outstanding ~2.4%, $INTU increased its EPS by ~2.5% (assuming 0 growth)

MARGINS✅
•LTM Gross Margins: 79.6%
•LTM Operating Margins: 23.1%
•LTM Net Income Margins: 17.6%

***NOW TO VALUATION 🧠

As stated above, investors can expect to receive ~12% MORE in EPS & ~5% LESS in FCF per share

Using Benjamin Graham’s 2G rule of thumb, $INTU has to grow earnings at a 14.85% CAGR over the next several years to justify its valuation

Today, analysts anticipate 2025 - 2027 EPS growth over the next few years to be slightly less than the (14.85%) required growth rate:

2025E: $19.29 (13.9% YoY) *FY Jul
2026E: $22.08 (14.4% YoY)
2027E: $25.14 (13.9% YoY)

$INTU has a great track record of meeting analyst estimates ~2 years out, but let’s assume $INTU ends 2027 with $25.14 in EPS & see its CAGR potential assuming different multiples:

32x P/E: $804.48💵 … ~14.3% CAGR

31x P/E: $779.34💵 … ~12.9% CAGR

30x P/E: $754.20💵 … ~11.4% CAGR

29x P/E: $729.06💵 … ~9.9% CAGR

28x P/E: $703.92💵 … ~8.3% CAGR

While it’s certainly reasonable for $INTU to trade for 32x, I wouldn’t want to rely on that assumption as it doesn’t leave us with a substantial margin of safety

Yet, given its quality, moat, predictability, & growth rate, I am comfortable relying on 29x - 31x multiple, making $INTU a good purchase today at $585💵

I consider $INTU a strong purchase with a substantial margin of safety closer to $545💵, or ~27.60x NTM earnings (~6% below todays price)

Given today’s estimates, at $545💵 I can reasonably expect ~10% CAGR while assuming an attractive & conservative 27x multiple
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𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐩𝐮𝐫𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐛𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐝𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐞𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐨𝐫 𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. 𝐏𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨 𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐟𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐬.

𝐈𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐨𝐛𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐧[...]

𝐨𝐭 𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐨𝐫 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐲.
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⁠Startup Archive
RT @twistartups: Palmer thinks hardcore hobbyists make the best employees, because they'd already be obsessing about the subject and the product. Do you agree? Is it possible to get really good at your job if you didn't already LOVE that field to begin with? https://t.co/UoXWbd21ML

Palmer Luckey on what he looks for when hiring people at Anduril

“The most important advice that I can give people is to work on projects that you care about. Don’t look to school — whether it’s college or the state-mandated educational system. Don’t look to them to tell you, ‘Here’s what electronics projects you should be working on.’”

There’s two reasons Palmer gives aspiring young innovators this advice:

“Schools are often years (sometimes decades) behind what industry and hobbyists are actually doing.”
“When you’re working on something that you’re only doing for yourself, you’re going to make way better decisions in what you teach yourself and how you do things.”

In fact, this is also what he looks for when hiring people at Anduril:

“When I hire people at Anduril, I look for people who have done projects that were outside of what their work paid them to do or what their school made them do because that means they’re the type of person who is willing to work on things with their own money and their own time because they want to bring something to this world that wouldn’t have existed otherwise.”

Palmer continues:

“That’s what drive you to learn the most. That’s what drives you to have the right attitude around all this stuff.”

Video source: @ShawnRyan762 (2025) - Startup Archive
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⁠Ahmad Jivraj
Some great podcast episodes listed here

I’m a little late but time for some of my favorite podcasts from 2024. Starting it off was my favorite pod of the year. The @ShaneAParrish interview with Chris Davis. Loved this one. https://t.co/bJyqGkhFxV - Small Cap Value Opportunities
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⁠Finding Compounders
Do stocks provide a sufficient hedge against inflation ? https://t.co/UdqeLDbTtu
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⁠Hidden Value Gems
So far, Germany has been the best performer, Euro stocks, UK, China - all outperforming US.

Hopefully not just a temporary rebound on the peace talks expectations.

#DAX
#FTSE
#SPX
#China https://t.co/IQUWvI5Vjh
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⁠Hidden Value Gems
What is your biggest investment worry this year?
- Rising US debt, inflation
- Trade wars / Geopolitics
- Other
- China
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⁠Finding Compounders
Phil Carret’s write up on American Maize Products

Notice how great investors pitch their investments so well in just one page instead of Wallstreet’s 38 page write ups . https://t.co/F1QWwDRZf9
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⁠Startup Archive
Palmer Luckey explains why science fiction is a great place to look for ideas

“One of the things that I’ve realized in my career is that nothing I ever come up with will be new. I’ve literally never come up with an idea that a science fiction author has not come up with before.”

Palmer continues:

“It makes sense. There’s a lot of [science fiction authors]. They’ve been around for a long time. And they don’t have to make things. And they don’t have to wait for the right moment. I started Oculus at just the right moment for it to succeed. But a science fiction author doesn’t have to wait for something to be possible to think about it and to write about it and for people to be excited about the idea. And so every time I’ve come up with something, I’ve been able to find — usually many, sometimes one — science fiction pieces addressing literally exactly that idea by some guy who just thought about it like 50 years ago.”

He gives a few examples:

“Some of the stuff that I’m building today, for example, in the AR/VR space around augmenting the vision of soldiers — these are ideas that are from 1959 Starship Troopers novels. These are old ideas that have only recently become technologically feasible. The idea of autonomous fighter jets, that’s been around for about 100 years… people have been thinking about this since computers were programmed with punchcards.”

So if you’re having a hard time thinking of startup ideas, try reading science fiction.

Video source: @ShawnRyan762 (2025)
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