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Latest annual: FY2026 10-K

ESTC · Elastic

The business

What it sells, where the money comes from, the kind of company it is.

Revenue · FY2026

$1.7B

+17.3% YoY · 23% 5-yr CAGR

Vital signs · TTM, with 5-yr average

Revenue $1.7B 5-yr avg $1.3B

Gross margin 76% 5-yr avg 74%

Operating margin −1.9% 5-yr avg −11.3%

ROIC −2% 5-yr avg −38%

Owner-earnings margin 19% 5-yr avg 10%

Free cash flow margin 19% 5-yr avg 10%

Next report Est. 8/21–8/31 · the 10-Q for the quarter ended late July · due within 40 days of period end · has filed ~28 days after · the wire records it on arrival

The business in brief

read the 10-K →

What this business is and what moves its needle, from its own SEC filings.

Situation: Distress / turnaround. Thin interest coverage, or operating cash burned against real debt, across the record. The balance sheet carries this situation; the debt schedule sets the clock.
What moves the needle: Operating margin has run around −21% through the cycle on a 74% gross margin, the operating line in the red even at its best — so the lever is whether the spending below the gross line can come down enough to clear a profit: revenue growth against the cost curve, and the cash runway until it does. Read this kind of business on retention and the cost of growth. On its own account, the filing leans hardest on pricing power & competition, set against the numbers in what the filing emphasizes, below.
Is it a good business?: Return on capital has rarely cleared the cost of capital (median −54%, above 15% in 0 of 7 years). Owner earnings, the cash-based check, have been thin too. This is price-taker territory, where the balance sheet and the cycle matter more than any multiple; the rest is in the 10-K.

Every line is arithmetic on the company's filings, shown in full in the sections below.

Where the money comes from

read the 10-K →

46% of revenue comes from outside the United States.

Revenue by geography, FY2026

United States54%$947M
International46%$792M

From the segment footnote of the company's own 10-K. Shares are of total revenue; the profit bar shows each segment's share of segment operating profit, before unallocated corporate costs.

The record

Ten years of arithmetic, read across the cycle.

The record, 2017–2026

realized figures from each filing · older years to the left

2017’17	2018’18	2019’19	2020’20	2021’21	2022’22	2023’23	2024’24	2025’25	2026’26	TTMTTMApr 2026
											Income statement
$88M	$160M	$272M	$428M	$608M	$862M	$1.1B	$1.3B	$1.5B	$1.7B	$1.7B	RevenueRevenue
$68M	$119M	$194M	$305M	$447M	$630M	$772M	$937M	$1.1B	$1.3B	$1.3B	Gross profitGross prof.
77%	75%	71%	71%	74%	73%	72%	74%	74%	76%	76%	Gross marginGross mgn
94%	70%	71%	73%	62%	61%	61%	57%	53%	52%	52%	SG&A / revenueSG&A/rev
37%	35%	37%	39%	33%	32%	29%	27%	25%	26%	26%	R&D / revenueR&D/rev
($47M)	($48M)	($101M)	($171M)	($129M)	($174M)	($219M)	($130M)	($55M)	($33M)	($33M)	Operating incomeOp. inc.
−53.5%	−30.0%	−37.3%	−40.0%	−21.3%	−20.1%	−20.5%	−10.3%	−3.7%	−1.9%	−1.9%	Operating marginOp. mgn
($48M)	($49M)	($98M)	($169M)	($122M)	($198M)	($217M)	($123M)	($32M)	($2M)	—	Pretax incomePretax
($52M)	($53M)	($102M)	($167M)	($129M)	($204M)	($236M)	$62M	($108M)	$368M	$368M	Net incomeNet inc.
											Cash flow & returns
($16M)	($21M)	($24M)	($31M)	$23M	$6M	$36M	$149M	$266M	$327M	$327M	Operating cash flowOp. cash
$3M	$5M	$6M	$13M	$17M	$20M	$20M	$18M	$12M	$12M	$12M	Depreciation & amortizationD&A
$33M	$27M	$73M	$124M	$132M	$187M	$252M	$69M	$362M	($53M)	($55M)	Working capital & otherWC & other
$843K	$3M	$3M	$5M	$4M	$2M	$3M	$3M	$4M	$5M	$5M	CapexCapex
1.0%	1.9%	1.3%	1.2%	0.6%	0.3%	0.3%	0.3%	0.3%	0.3%	0.3%	Capex / revenueCapex/rev
($17M)	($24M)	($27M)	($36M)	$19M	$3M	$33M	$145M	$262M	$322M	$322M	Owner earningsOwner earn.
−19.2%	−14.9%	−10.1%	−8.3%	3.1%	0.4%	3.1%	11.5%	17.7%	18.5%	18.5%	Owner earnings marginOE mgn
($17M)	($24M)	($27M)	($36M)	$19M	$3M	$33M	$145M	$262M	$322M	$322M	Free cash flowFCF
−19.2%	−14.9%	−10.1%	−8.3%	3.1%	0.4%	3.1%	11.5%	17.7%	18.5%	18.5%	Free cash flow marginFCF mgn
$4M	$4M	$2M	$24M	$0	$120M	$0	$19M	$0	$37M	$37M	AcquisitionsAcquis.
$25K	$344K	$0	$0	—	—	—	$0	$0	$340M	—	BuybacksBuybacks
($20M)	$8M	($8M)	($29M)	($2M)	($127M)	($273M)	($288M)	($119M)	$26M	—	Investing cash flowInv. cash
$60M	$3M	$282M	$59M	$77M	$602M	$17M	$40M	$41M	($312M)	—	Financing cash flowFin. cash
($635K)	$781K	($897K)	$321K	$6M	($21M)	$3M	($4M)	($322K)	($1M)	—	Exchange-rate effectFX
$23M	($8M)	$249M	($891K)	$104M	$460M	($217M)	($104M)	$188M	$39M	—	Change in cashΔ cash
—	—	—	-116%	-205%	-113%	-54%	-13%	-6%	-2%	-2%	ROICROIC
—	—	-39%	-40%	-29%	-49%	-59%	8%	-12%	29%	29%	Return on equityROE
—	—	−39%	−40%	−29%	−49%	−59%	8%	−12%	29%	29%	Retained to equityRetained/eq
											Balance sheet
—	$51M	$298M	$297M	$401M	$861M	$644M	$1.1B	$1.4B	$1.4B	$1.4B	Cash & investmentsCash+inv
—	$53M	$81M	$129M	$160M	$215M	$261M	$323M	$376M	$464M	$464M	ReceivablesReceiv.
—	$2M	$4M	$11M	$7M	$28M	$35M	$26M	$17M	$9M	$9M	Accounts payablePayables
—	$51M	$77M	$117M	$153M	$187M	$226M	$297M	$358M	$456M	$456M	Operating working capitalOper. WC
—	$132M	$430M	$480M	$637M	$1.2B	$1.3B	$1.5B	$1.9B	$2.0B	$2.0B	Current assetsCur. assets
—	$125M	$204M	$333M	$450M	$593M	$717M	$871M	$1.0B	$1.2B	$1.2B	Current liabilitiesCur. liab.
—	1.1×	2.1×	1.4×	1.4×	2.0×	1.8×	1.8×	1.9×	1.7×	1.7×	Current ratioCurr. ratio
—	$5M	$5M	$8M	$9M	$7M	$5M	$5M	$7M	$9M	—	Net PP&ENet PP&E
$12M	$19M	$20M	$198M	$199M	$304M	$304M	$319M	$319M	$356M	$356M	GoodwillGoodwill
—	$183M	$486M	$804M	$973M	$1.6B	$1.7B	$2.2B	$2.6B	$3.2B	$3.2B	Total assetsAssets
—	—	—	—	$0	$567M	$568M	$569M	$570M	$571M	$571M	Total debtDebt
—	—	—	—	($401M)	($294M)	($77M)	($516M)	($828M)	($799M)	($799M)	Net debt / (cash)Net debt
—	—	—	—	-699.9×	-8.4×	-8.7×	-5.0×	-2.2×	-1.3×	-1.3×	Interest coverageInt. cov.
—	$136M	$223M	$390M	$522M	$1.2B	$1.3B	$1.5B	$1.7B	$1.9B	—	Total liabilitiesTotal liab.
($129M)	($154M)	$263M	$414M	$451M	$415M	$399M	$738M	$927M	$1.3B	$1.3B	Shareholders’ equityEquity
—	—	—	—	0.4%	0.3%	—	—	—	—	0.1%	Stock comp / revenueSBC/rev
											Per share
30.4M	32.0M	54.9M	78.8M	87.2M	92.5M	95.7M	104M	104M	107M	107M	Shares out (diluted)Shares
$2.90	$4.99	$4.95	$5.43	$6.98	$9.32	$11.17	$12.19	$14.31	$16.22	$16.22	Revenue / shareRev/sh
$-1.71	$-1.65	$-1.86	$-2.12	$-1.48	$-2.20	$-2.47	$0.59	$-1.04	$3.43	$3.43	EPS (diluted)EPS
$-0.56	$-0.74	$-0.50	$-0.45	$0.21	$0.03	$0.34	$1.40	$2.53	$3.00	$3.00	Owner earnings / shareOE/sh
$-0.56	$-0.74	$-0.50	$-0.45	$0.21	$0.03	$0.34	$1.40	$2.53	$3.00	$3.00	Free cash flow / shareFCF/sh
$0.03	$0.09	$0.06	$0.06	$0.04	$0.03	$0.03	$0.03	$0.04	$0.05	$0.05	Cap. spending / shareCapex/sh
$-4.23	$-4.79	$4.79	$5.25	$5.17	$4.49	$4.17	$7.10	$8.94	$11.91	$11.91	Book value / shareBVPS

The diluted share count moved ×1.71 into 2019 — shares issued, not a split the totals corroborate — and the per-share figures carry the counts as filed.

The diluted share count moved ×1.44 into 2020 — shares issued, not a split the totals corroborate — and the per-share figures carry the counts as filed.

Per-share growththe realized rate an owner's share compounded

	9-yr	5-yr
Revenue / share	+21.1%/yr	+18.4%/yr
Owner earnings / share	—	+69.6%/yr
Capital spending / share	+6.1%/yr	+1.1%/yr
Book value / share	—	+18.2%/yr

Where the cash went

ReinvestBuybacksDividendsAcquisitionsRetainedBeyond op. cash

Each year's outlays against its operating cash: the mix, and how it drifts. The hatched cap is spending beyond that year's operating cash — financed from the balance sheet or borrowing, not operations.

FY2021FY2026

Owner-earnings bridge

FY2022–FY2026cash-flow statement, SEC EDGAR →

Net income is the accountant's number; owner earnings is the cash an owner could take out. The walk between them, off the cash-flow statement, and whether the gap is widening or holding.

In fiscal 2026 the business reported $368M of profit but $322M of owner earnings: $46M less than the profit line, taken out by capital spending and the timing of cash.

Reported net income$368M

Owner earnings$322M · 19% of revenue

	FY2026	FY2025	FY2024	FY2023	FY2022
Reported net income	$368M	($108M)	$62M	($236M)	($204M)
Depreciationnon-cash charge added back	+$3M	+$3M	+$4M	+$4M	+$4M
Amortization of intangible assetsnon-cash charge added back; the purchase price of past acquisitions, expensed over time	+$9M	+$9M	+$14M	+$17M	+$16M
Stock-based compensationreal costnon-cash, but a real cost	—	—	—	—	+$3M
Working capital & othertiming of cash in and out, other non-cash items	−$53M	+$362M	+$69M	+$252M	+$187M
Cash from operations	$327M	$266M	$149M	$36M	$6M
Capital expenditurecash put back in to keep running and to grow	−$5M	−$4M	−$3M	−$3M	−$2M
Owner earnings	$322M	$262M	$145M	$33M	$3M
Owner-earnings marginowner earnings ÷ revenue	19%	18%	11%	3%	0%

Owner earnings is the cash an owner could pull out without starving the business: operating cash less the capital it must spend to hold its position .

Maintenance capex is estimated as depreciation where a growing business invests above it; free cash flow is the figure the scorecard's free-cash margin reads.

III

Quality & stewardship

Returns, the balance sheet, capital allocation, and pay.

Owner’s Scorecard

FY2026 10-K · source on SEC EDGAR →

Will it survive?

Can it pay its interest? -1.3×

Does not cover its interest

Operating income ($33M) ÷ interest expense $25M

What this means
A full year of operating profit didn't cover the interest bill. This is the zombie zone: the business depends on refinancing, asset sales, or forbearance to service its debt.
How heavy is the debt, net of cash? +$799M

Net cash

Cash $769M + ST investments $602M − debt $571M

What this means
Cash and short-term investments exceed every dollar of debt by $799M, on net the company owes nothing, and can act from strength when others can't. Net debt is the leverage figure that matters: the cash is already set against the debt. Strategic or illiquid investments aren't counted here.
How long is cash tied up? 90d

Long (60+ days)

DSO 97 + DIO 0 − DPO 8 days

What this means
Days cash is tied up between paying suppliers and collecting from customers. Lower is better; a long cycle means growth itself eats cash. (Little or no inventory, a services / asset-light model, so the inventory leg is ~0.)

Is it a good business?

Return on invested capital -54%

Below average through the cycle

7-yr median, range -205%–-2%; -2% latest = NOPAT ($26M) ÷ invested capital $1.1B

Industry peers: median 8%

What this means
The rate the business earns on the money tied up in it, Buffett's north star, because over time a stock tracks the ROIC beneath it. Above ~15% sustained hints at a moat; a return below the cost of capital (~8%) erodes value as a business grows rather than building it — the test Buffett weighs most. The headline is the median of the last 7 years (it ran -2% most recently), so one peak or trough year doesn't set the verdict. Asset-light businesses (R&D expensed, little capital) read artificially high, pair this with Owner Earnings.
Owner-earnings margin 19%

High, recently turned positive

latest $322M = operating cash $327M − maintenance capex $5M; positive each of the last 3 years, after an earlier loss stretch (10-yr median 2%)

Industry peers: median 16%

What this means
What an owner could take out without starving the business: operating cash less the maintenance capital it must spend to hold its position — Buffett's owner earnings. That's 19% of revenue this year, a 2% median across 10 years.
Are earnings backed by cash? 0.89×

Mostly cash-backed

Cash from ops $327M ÷ net income $368M

What this means
How much of reported profit showed up as operating cash. Above 1× is reassuring; well below suggests earnings lean on accruals. One year is noisy, growth and working-capital swings distort it, and this is operating cash, not free cash. Watch the multi-year trend.

How is the cash used?

Where do the earnings go? 106%

Returned more than it generated

Dividends + buybacks $340M ÷ Owner Earnings $322M — this fiscal year

What this means
The company returned more than it generated: against $322M of Owner Earnings, $340M (106%) went back to shareholders, $0 dividends, $340M buybacks — the excess came from the balance sheet or borrowing, not the year's operations. Sustained, that pattern draws down cash or adds debt; the net-debt line above shows where it stands. This year's proportion is 106%; across the record (2017–2026) it is 50%, the capital-allocation section below.
Investing or harvesting? 0.43×

Harvesting

Capex $5M ÷ depreciation & amortization as filed $12M

What this means
Descriptive, not a grade. Above ~1× means investing faster than assets wear out (growth, or, sustained for years, today's earnings carrying less depreciation than tomorrow's will). Below means spending less than it's wearing out (efficiency, or a melting asset base). The ratio won't tell you which; the filings will.

The promise and the pay packet

What does winning a customer cost? 41%

Heavy selling cost

Selling and marketing $710M ÷ revenue $1.7B

Retention and the customer ladder, in the filing’s words

Net Expansion Rateapproximately 112%

“Our Net Expansion Rate was approximately 112% as of April 30, 2026.”
✓ the figure is the sentence’s own characters

Customers from $100,000over 1,720

“The number of customers who represented greater than $100,000 in annual contract value ("ACV") was over 1,720 and over 1,510 as of April 30, 2026 and 2025, respectively.”

Customers from $1.0 millionover 240

“In addition, we had over 240 customers who represented greater than $1.0 million in ACV as of April 30, 2026.”

Customer countapproximately 24,000

“As of April 30, 2026, we had approximately 24,000 customers compared to approximately 21,500 and approximately 21,000 customers as of April 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively.”

What this means
Sales and marketing as a share of revenue, kept apart from administrative overhead because it answers a different question: how much a business must spend to win the next customer. A company whose product pulls customers in spends little here and keeps the difference; one that must buy its growth is running to stand still, and the spending has to keep rising for revenue to keep rising. Read it beside the growth rate, not alone.

Graham’s defensive tests · 1 of 4 met

Graham’s numerical criteria for the defensive investor (The Intelligent Investor, ch. 14), run on the filings. A floor of safety, not a buy signal; many fine modern businesses fail his strictest liquidity rules by design.

Adequate size Near

Revenue ≥ $2B · $1.7B

What this means
Big enough to weather a storm. Graham's 1972 floor was ~$100M of sales (≈ $700M today); we use a $2B revenue line as a conservative modern stand-in.
Strong liquidity Near

Current ratio ≥ 2× · 1.68×

What this means
Current assets at least twice current liabilities, near-term bills covered without touching the business. Strict by design: many cash-rich modern firms run leaner and miss it, holding their cushion in longer-dated securities.
Conservative debt Pass

Debt ≤ working capital · $571M vs $818M WC

What this means
Graham's rule that borrowings not exceed net current assets. Capital-heavy and buyback-heavy firms routinely fail it, read it next to interest coverage, not alone.
Earnings stability Miss

A profit every year (10-yr record) · 8 loss years

What this means
Graham wanted earnings in each of the past ten years, the stability a defensive owner leans on.
Dividend record —

Uninterrupted dividends · no dividend line tagged in the data

What this means
An unbroken dividend was Graham's mark of durability. This record carries no dividends-paid line in any year — common for partnerships, whose distributions file under tags the chain doesn't read — so the criterion is withheld rather than judged on silence.
Earnings growth —

Earnings +33% over the record · —

What this means
Earnings were negative early in the record, a growth rate isn't meaningful.
Moderate price —

P/E ≤ 15 and P/E × P/B ≤ 22.5 · decided by the price

What this means
Graham's valuation gate, the wall he kept between a sound business and a sound investment. Three-year average earnings are $1.03/share (latest year $3.54), the averaged base the calculator's gate runs on, and book value is $12.28/share. Enter a price in “What the price implies” just below for the P/E, P/B, and whether it clears. But this is the rule Buffett outgrew: there's no hard P/E law, and a wonderful business can deserve a far richer multiple if the thesis holds, treat it as the bargain-hunter's floor, not a verdict on the price.

Durability & moat, 2017–2026

Whether the record’s returns held, and what the capital reinvested earned.

Profitable years 2 of 10

What this means
Lost money in 8 year(s), look at what happened there before trusting the average.
Return on capital ≥ 15% 0 of 6 yrs

What this means
A moat shows up as a high return on invested capital that holds year after year, not one good vintage.
Operating margin −40% → −5% (3-yr avg ends)

What this means
Through the cycle the operating margin widened — about −40% early to −5% lately, median −21% — pricing power intact or improving.
Reinvestment, incremental ROIC −1%

What this means
Reinvested capital came back at a negative incremental return over this window — the invested base grew while operating profit did not. The filings show where it went.
Worst year 2017 · −53.5% op. margin

What this means
Operations went underwater in 2017, understand why before trusting the good years.

All figures as filed; the source filing is linked above.

Current Position

as of fiscal year-end, Apr 30, 2026

Can the business pay what it owes this year, off the freshest balance sheet: the quality of the assets, the debt actually coming due, and what a low ratio means here.

Current assets$2.0B

Cash & short-term investments$1.4B
Receivables$464M
Other current assets$189M

Current liabilities$1.2B

Accounts payable$9M
Other current liabilities$1.2B

Current ratio1.68×all current assets ÷ what's due · Graham looked for 2×

Quick ratio1.68×stricter: inventory excluded

Cash ratio1.14×strictest: cash alone against what's due

Working capital$818Mthe cushion left after near-term bills

Revenue, latest quarter vs. a year ago+17.7%the freshest read on whether the business is still growing

Current ratio, recent quarters1.9× → 1.7×

Deeper floors

Tangible book value$907Mequity stripped of goodwill & intangibles

Net current asset value$147MGraham's net-net: current assets less all liabilities

Debt incl. operating leases$592M$21M of it operating leases

Deferred revenue$1.0Bcustomer cash collected before delivery; operating float

From the company's latest filing.

How the cash was used, 2017–2026

Over the record, the business generated $714M of operating cash; how management split it reads as a balanced allocator, splitting cash between the business, owners, and the balance sheet.

Reinvested$34M · 5%
Buybacks$340M · 48%
Retained (debt / cash)$340M · 48%

Returned to owners$340M
50% of the owner earnings the business produced over the span, $0 as dividends and $340M as buybacks.
Average price paid for buybacks$76.93
Across the years where the filing reports a share count, 4M shares were bought for $340M, about $76.93 each.
Net change in share count253.2%
The diluted count rose from 30M to 107M: issuance (stock pay, deals) outran any buybacks, so owners were diluted on net.
Dividend record—
No dividend line was reported in the filing data over the span; the record here neither confirms nor rules out a payout.

Buybacks are gross of stock issued to staff; the share-count line above is the net of that, the figure that decides whether owners gained. The average price paid blends a year of purchases (and any accelerated repurchase), so it is close, not exact. The record of where the cash went and on what terms.

Management, ownership & pay

read the proxy →

From the proxy: how much of the business the people running it own, and how they are paid, beside what the business earned for its owners in the same years.

Fiscal year	Chief executive	Pay, as filed	“Actually paid”	Owner earnings
2021	Ashutosh Kulkarni	$10.6M	$28.8M	$19M
2022	Ashutosh Kulkarni	$17.9M	$12.9M	$3M
2022	Ashutosh Kulkarni	$7.9M	$2.9M	$3M
2023	Ashutosh Kulkarni	$13.7M	$9.4M	$33M
2024	Ashutosh Kulkarni	$12.5M	$30.1M	$145M
2024	Ashutosh Kulkarni	$6.5M	$11.3M	$145M
2025	Ashutosh Kulkarni	$14.3M	$6.4M	$262M
2025	Ashutosh Kulkarni	$5.9M	$1.5M	$262M

Both pay figures are the company’s own, from the pay-versus-performance table its proxy statement files. “As filed” is the Summary Compensation Table total: salary, bonus, and equity awards at their value on the day of grant. “Actually paid” is the SEC’s prescribed recalculation, which re-marks those equity awards to what they became as they vested; it can swing far above or below the filed figure in either direction, and negative years occur. Owner earnings are the whole business's, from the record above, for the same fiscal years.

Insider ownership<1%
The stake all directors and executive officers hold together, per the 2025 proxy: skin in the game, the first thing Munger reads.

What an owner would ask, FY2026

read the 10-K →

Which reported numbers are a judgment call?
Management names Revenue recognition, Income taxes as critical estimates
each rests partly on management's judgment; the filing's note sets out the assumptionsverify →

The questions the record and the charts do not answer on their own; each carries the figure and the place to look.

Peers, Software

The same industry, side by side on owner economics and what the growth costs. Each column names the period it is read over; the group median at the foot is the line to read each figure against.

Company	Revenuelatest FY, USD	Gross marginmedian over the record	Op. marginmedian over the record	ROICmedian over the record	Owner earn. marginmedian over the record	Sales & marketinglatest FY	Stock paylatest FY
DTDynatrace	$2.0B	81%	8.7%	8%	26%	34.2%	14.8%
PCTYPaylocity	$1.8B	67%	11.9%	24%	21%	22.2%	7.8%
ACIWACI Worldwide Inc.	$1.8B	51%	14.8%	7%	13%	7.1%	4.0%
ESTCElastic	$1.7B	74%	-20.9%	-54%	2%	40.8%	—
TDCTeradata Corporation	$1.7B	57%	8.3%	47%	16%	—	6.7%
BILLBILL Holdings	$1.7B	77%	-13.5%	-3%	-0%	37.3%	13.9%
PATHUiPath	$1.6B	83%	-18.2%	-14%	4%	42.4%	18.0%
BSYBentley Systems Incorporated	$1.5B	80%	18.9%	11%	29%	19.3%	4.8%
Group median	—	76%	8.5%	7%	15%	34.2%	—

The price

What a price has to assume.

What the price implies

reverse-DCF

Type today's close and see the owner-earnings growth you'd have to believe to justify it, beside what Elastic has delivered.

Elastic’s latest year runs above its own through-cycle margin — the reported figure may flatter a peak. So the tool opens on the through-cycle base, Graham’s averaging cutting both ways; clear the toggle below to read the latest year exactly as reported.

Today’s price $

Through the cycle, Elastic earns about $30M on its 1.7% median owner-earnings margin. This year’s 18.5% margin runs above that; the reported figure may flatter a peak you'd be paying on. Normalize, below, values the price on that through-cycle figure rather than the latest year. It comes pre-checked here for that reason, the same rule that already normalizes a trough; clear it to price the year as filed.

Base Normalize · through-cycle ($30M) Net of stock comp (−$3M TTM)

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The assumptions Required return 9% Years of high growth 10 Terminal growth 2.5%

9.0% = the 4.65% 10-year Treasury (Aug 19, 2026) + 4.35 points of equity premium. The rate you require is yours to set.

Enter a price above to run it.

Implied by the price—

Owner-earnings growth · ’22→’26+100%/yr

Owner-earnings growth · since FY2021+77%/yr

Owner-earnings yield—

P/E (3-yr earnings ’24–’26)—

P/B—

Graham’s price gate—

Graham capped the multiple at 15×; Buffett and Munger let that rule go: a wonderful business can deserve 50× if the thesis holds. The gate marks the bargain-hunter's floor.

Against a high-grade bond: Graham’s yardstick bond yield%

Prefilled with the 10-year Treasury (4.65%, as of Aug 19, 2026). Edit it for today’s exact figure, or a AAA corporate yield.

Graham measured a stock against the bond you could own instead, the heart of his margin of safety. Enter a price above to weigh the owner-earnings yield against this bond.

Owner earnings $322M on 104M shares outstanding, per the 10-K cover, as of 2026-05-29; net cash $799M. The if-converted diluted count is 107M, 3% above the shares outstanding: the dilution overhang (convertibles, options) a buyer inherits. The base opens on the through-cycle figure (the latest year sits above the record’s own median, and Graham’s averaging cuts both ways); clear Normalize to use the year as filed. Net of stock comp treats option pay as the expense it is. The dials set the multiple a growth belief justifies; the price, and every dollar on this page, is yours.

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The owners of ESTC: the meeting and the votes →

Cite: Owner Scorecard, "Elastic (ESTC), the owner's record," https://ownerscorecard.com/c/ESTC, data as of 2026-08-17.

Manual order: ← ESTA its page in the Manual ET →

Industry order: ← DT the Software chapter EVCM →