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Snap 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
$437M
FY 2025
5-year average
$194M
FY 2021–2025
Net debt
$2.6B
FY 2025
Diluted shares
1.69B
FY 2025

Read the result with care

  • Free cash flow swings widely from year to year. An average of several years is a steadier base than the latest year.

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.

%

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

2.90 USD

Starting from 437.2M 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
3.49B
After year 10, discounted
3.98B
Minus net debt
-2.55B
For shareholders
4.92B
Divided by shares
1.69B

What the price implies

Enter a share price to see the growth it implies.

  • Your assumption, years 1–55.0%
  • Free cash flow, FY 2022–202599.2%
  • Revenue, FY 2020–202518.8%
  • Revenue, FY 2022–20258.8%
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%4.033.202.592.111.73
1.5%4.343.412.742.221.81
2.0%4.723.662.902.341.90
2.5%5.183.953.102.471.99
3.0%5.764.303.322.632.10

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

Year by year
YearGrowthFree cash flowDiscount factorDiscounted
15.0%459.0M0.917421.1M
25.0%482.0M0.842405.7M
35.0%506.1M0.772390.8M
45.0%531.4M0.708376.5M
55.0%558.0M0.650362.6M
63.0%574.7M0.596342.7M
73.0%592.0M0.547323.8M
83.0%609.7M0.502306.0M
93.0%628.0M0.460289.2M
103.0%646.8M0.422273.2M
After 102.0%9.43B0.4223.98B

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: -$611MFree cash flow 2016: -$678M2016Operating cash flow 2017: -$735MFree cash flow 2017: -$819M2017Operating cash flow 2018: -$690MFree cash flow 2018: -$810M2018Operating cash flow 2019: -$305MFree cash flow 2019: -$341M2019Operating cash flow 2020: -$168MFree cash flow 2020: -$225M2020Operating cash flow 2021: $293MFree cash flow 2021: $223M2021Operating cash flow 2022: $185MFree cash flow 2022: $55.3M2022Operating cash flow 2023: $247MFree cash flow 2023: $34.8M2023Operating cash flow 2024: $413MFree cash flow 2024: $219M2024Operating cash flow 2025: $656MFree cash flow 2025: $437M2025
Operating cash flowFree cash flow
FYRevenueOp. cash flowCapexFree cash flow
2025$5.9B$656M$219M$437M
2024$5.4B$413M$195M$219M
2023$4.6B$247M$212M$34.8M
2022$4.6B$185M$129M$55.3M
2021$4.1B$293M$69.9M$223M
2020$2.5B-$168M$57.8M-$225M
2019$1.7B-$305M$36.5M-$341M
2018$1.2B-$690M$120M-$810M
2017$825M-$735M$84.5M-$819M
2016$404M-$611M$66.4M-$678M

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.