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ADOBE INC.: cash-flow calculator

A discounted cash flow model turns assumptions about future free cash flow into a single amount today. Here the assumptions are yours: the page shows what they add up to, and, the other way round, what yearly growth a share price takes for granted.

Free cash flow
$9.9B
FY 2025
5-year average
$7.8B
FY 2021–2025
Net debt
$779M
FY 2025
Diluted shares
427.0M
FY 2025

Your assumptions

money in USD
Starting free cash flow

Operating cash flow minus capital expenditure, from the annual reports.

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%

Growth usually slows as a company gets bigger.

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For ever, so it is usually kept at or below long-run growth of the economy, often 0–3%.

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The yearly return you require: a risk-free rate plus a premium for risk. Higher means later cash counts for less.

M USD

From the FY 2025 balance sheet. Negative means more cash than debt.

M

Weighted average, diluted, FY 2025.

USD

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Present value per share, with your assumptions

392.57 USD

Starting from 9.85B USD of free cash flow, growing 5.0% a year for five years, 3.0% for the next five and 2.0% after that, all discounted at 9.0%.

Years 1–10, discounted
78.68B
After year 10, discounted
89.72B
Minus net debt
-779.0M
For shareholders
167.63B
Divided by shares
427.0M

What the price implies

Enter a share price to see the growth it implies.

  • Your assumption, years 1–55.0%
  • Free cash flow, FY 2020–202513.2%
  • Free cash flow, FY 2022–202510.0%
  • Revenue, FY 2020–202513.1%
  • Revenue, FY 2022–202510.5%
Past growth is the compound yearly change between the fiscal years shown, from the annual reports. The past does not set the future; the comparison only shows how the price's assumption sits against what the company has done.

Sensitivity: value per share

Rows: terminal growth. Columns: discount rate. Other assumptions as entered, values in USD.

g \ r7%8%9%10%11%
1.0%493.12419.54364.50321.81287.76
1.5%521.26438.31377.60331.27294.78
2.0%555.02460.20392.57341.92302.59
2.5%596.28486.07409.84353.98311.31
3.0%647.86517.12429.99367.77321.12

“—”: terminal growth at or above the discount rate has no finite answer.

Year by year
YearGrowthFree cash flowDiscount factorDiscounted
15.0%10.34B0.9179.49B
25.0%10.86B0.8429.14B
35.0%11.40B0.7728.81B
45.0%11.98B0.7088.48B
55.0%12.57B0.6508.17B
63.0%12.95B0.5967.72B
73.0%13.34B0.5477.30B
83.0%13.74B0.5026.90B
93.0%14.15B0.4606.52B
103.0%14.58B0.4226.16B
After 102.0%212.40B0.42289.72B

Terminal value = free cash flow in year 10 × (1 + terminal growth) ÷ (discount rate − terminal growth). Amounts in millions of USD.

Where the starting figures come from

Operating cash flow and free cash flow

Operating cash flow 2016: $2.2BFree cash flow 2016: $2.0B2016Operating cash flow 2017: $2.9BFree cash flow 2017: $2.7B2017Operating cash flow 2018: $4.0BFree cash flow 2018: $3.8B2018Operating cash flow 2019: $4.4BFree cash flow 2019: $4.0B2019Operating cash flow 2020: $5.7BFree cash flow 2020: $5.3B2020Operating cash flow 2021: $7.2BFree cash flow 2021: $6.9B2021Operating cash flow 2022: $7.8BFree cash flow 2022: $7.4B2022Operating cash flow 2023: $7.3BFree cash flow 2023: $6.9B2023Operating cash flow 2024: $8.1BFree cash flow 2024: $7.9B2024Operating cash flow 2025: $10.0BFree cash flow 2025: $9.9B2025
Operating cash flowFree cash flow
FYRevenueOp. cash flowCapexFree cash flow
2025$23.8B$10.0B$179M$9.9B
2024$21.5B$8.1B$183M$7.9B
2023$19.4B$7.3B$360M$6.9B
2022$17.6B$7.8B$442M$7.4B
2021$15.8B$7.2B$348M$6.9B
2020$12.9B$5.7B$419M$5.3B
2019$11.2B$4.4B$395M$4.0B
2018$9.0B$4.0B$267M$3.8B
2017$7.3B$2.9B$178M$2.7B
2016$5.9B$2.2B$204M$2.0B

Free cash flow = operating cash flow − capital expenditure. Source: SEC EDGAR, annual reports.

How it works: free cash flow (operating cash flow minus capital expenditure) grows at your stage 1 rate for years 1–5 and your stage 2 rate for years 6–10; after that, a terminal value assumes your terminal growth for ever. Each year is discounted at your rate, net debt (financial debt minus cash, latest balance sheet) is subtracted and the total is divided by diluted shares. The reverse calculation finds, by bisection, the stage 1 growth at which this equals the share price. Operating cash flow is after interest, so subtracting net debt as well is a simplification you can switch off.

The output is arithmetic on your inputs. It is not an EdgeScore estimate of what the shares are worth and not a price target. Figures: SEC EDGAR, annual reports, with the fiscal year shown next to each one.

For information and education only, not investment advice. Data may contain errors.