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LAW (CS Disco) Earnings Power Value (EPV) : $-2.91 (As of Dec24)


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What is CS Disco Earnings Power Value (EPV)?

As of Dec24, CS Disco's earnings power value is $-2.91. *

* GuruFocus does not store EPV value into our database if Average Maintenance CAPEX is 0.

Margin of Safety is N/A.

The basic concept of EPV is that one should value a stock based on the current free cash flow of a company and not on future projections which may, or may not, come true. It is arguably a better way to analyze stocks than Discounted Cash Flow analysis that relies on highly speculative growth assumptions many years into the future. Assumption: Current profitability is sustainable.


CS Disco Earnings Power Value (EPV) Historical Data

The historical data trend for CS Disco's Earnings Power Value (EPV) can be seen below:

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

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CS Disco Earnings Power Value (EPV) Chart

CS Disco Annual Data
Trend Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23 Dec24
Earnings Power Value (EPV)
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CS Disco Quarterly Data
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Earnings Power Value (EPV) Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only - - - -2.42 -2.91

Competitive Comparison of CS Disco's Earnings Power Value (EPV)

For the Software - Application subindustry, CS Disco's Earnings Power Value (EPV), along with its competitors' market caps and Earnings Power Value (EPV) data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.


CS Disco's Earnings Power Value (EPV) Distribution in the Software Industry

For the Software industry and Technology sector, CS Disco's Earnings Power Value (EPV) distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where CS Disco's Earnings Power Value (EPV) falls into.



CS Disco Earnings Power Value (EPV) Calculation

Earnings Power Value also known as just Earnings Power is a valuation technique popularised by Bruce Greenwald, an authority on value investing at Columbia University. It is arguably a better way to analyze stocks than Discounted Cash Flow analysis that relies on highly speculative growth assumptions many years into the future.

The basic concept of EPV is that one should value a stock based on the current free cash flow of a company and not on future projections which may, or may not, come true. This valuation tool excludes the potential growth that a company may have so that needs to be looked at separately. Since future growth is excluded from the analysis, only the maintenance capital expenditures are subtracted from after-tax EBIT (earnings before interest and taxes) and growth capex is ignored.

CS Disco's "Earning Power" Calculation:

Average of Last 20 Quarters Last Quarter
Revenue 120.2
DDA 2.9
Operating Margin % -35.31
SGA * 25% 21.7
Tax Rate % 0.02
Maintenance Capex 5.9
Cash and Cash Equivalents 129.1
Short-Term Debt 2.3
Long-Term Debt 7.0
Shares Outstanding (Diluted) 60.1

1. Start with "Earnings" not including accounting adjustments (one-time charges not excluded unless policy has changed). "Earnings" are "Operating Income.

2. Look at average margins over a business/Industry cycle: Average Operating Margin = -35.31%

To normalize margins and eliminate the effects on profitability of valuing the firm at different points in the business cycle, it is usually best to take a long-term average of operating margins. Ideally this would be as long as 10 years and include at least one economic downturn. However, since most of companies do not have as long as 10-year history, here GuruFocus uses the latest 5 years data to do the calculation. To smooth out unusual years but reflect recent developments, we take an average of the 5 year margin.

3. Multiply average margins by sustainable revenues and then adjust for maintenance SGA. This yields "normalized" EBIT:

To be conservative, GuruFocus uses an average of the 5 year revenues as the sustainable revenue.
EPV analysis recognises that part of SG&A expenditure is made to maintain and replace the existing assets, while part is made to grow sales. Since EPV is only interested in what it costs a going concern to maintain its existing asset base, it adds back a percentage of SG&A (between 15% and 50% - this is a matter of judgment and industry knowledge) to make up for the fact that some of this expenditure went to fund growth and shouldn't be accounted for. To start off, we assume 25% for the sake of prudence.
Sustainable Revenue = $120.2 Mil, Average Operating Margin = -35.31%, Average Adjusted SGA = 21.7,
therefore "Normalized" EBIT = Sustainable Revenue * Average Operating Margin + Average Adjusted SGA = 120.2 * -35.31% +21.7 = $-20.687582626 Mil.

4. Multiply by one minus Average Tax Rate (NOPAT):

Same as average operating margin calculation, GuruFocus takes an average of the 5 years tax rates.
Average Tax Rate = 0.02%, and "Normalized" EBIT = $-20.687582626 Mil,
therefore After-tax "Normalized" EBIT = "Normalized" EBIT * ( 1 - Average Tax Rate ) = -20.687582626 * ( 1 - 0.02% ) = $-20.68427261278 Mil.

5. Add back Excess Depreciation (after tax at 1/2 average tax rate). This yields "normalized" Earnings:

Excess Depreciation = Average DDA * % of Excess Depreciation (after tax at 1/2 average tax rate) = 2.9 * 0.5 * 0.02% = $0.000229712 Mil.
"Normalized" Earnings = After-tax "Normalized" EBIT + Excess Depreciation = -20.68427261278 + 0.000229712 = $-20.68404290078 Mil.

6. Adjusted for Maintenance Capital Expenditure:

First, calculate the revenue change regarding to the previous year. If the revenue decreased from the previous year, then the Maintenance Capital Expenditure = Capital Expenditure (positive).
Second, if the revenue increased from the previous year, then calculate the percentage of Net PPE as of corresponding Revenue.
Third, calculate Capital Expenditure (positive) - percentage of Net PPE as of corresponding Revenue * revenue increase.
If [Capital Expenditure (positive) - percentage of Net PPE as of corresponding Revenue * revenue increase] was negative, then the Maintenance Capital Expenditure = Capital Expenditure (positive).
If [Capital Expenditure (positive) - percentage of Net PPE as of corresponding Revenue * revenue increase] was positive, then the Maintenance Capital Expenditure = Capital Expenditure (positive) - percentage of Net PPE as of corresponding Revenue * revenue increase.
Fourth, GuruFocus uses an average of the 5 year maintenance capital expenditures as maintenance CAPEX.
CS Disco's Average Maintenance CAPEX = $5.9 Mil *.
* GuruFocus does not store EPV value into our database if Average Maintenance CAPEX is 0.

7. Investors require a return of "WACC" for the risk they are taking: WACC = 9%

8. CS Disco's current cash and cash equivalent = $129.1 Mil.
CS Disco's current interest bearing debt = Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation = 7.0 + 2.3 = $9.301 Mil.
CS Disco's current Shares Outstanding (Diluted Average) = 60.1 Mil.

CS Disco's Earnings Power Value (EPV) for Dec24 is calculated as:

EPV = ( ( Norm. Earnings-Maint. CAPEX *) / WACC + CashandEquiv - Int. Bearing Debt ) / Shares Outstanding (Diluted Average)
= ( ( -20.68404290078 - 5.9)/ 9%+129.1-9.301 )/60.1
=-2.91

Margin of Safety (EPV)=( Earnings Power Value (EPV)-Current Price )/Earnings Power Value (EPV)
=( -2.9101915716624-4.31 )/-2.9101915716624
= N/A

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

* GuruFocus does not store EPV value into our database if Average Maintenance CAPEX is 0.


CS Disco  (NYSE:LAW) Earnings Power Value (EPV) Explanation

Assumption: Current profitability is sustainable.

Earnings power value (EPV) uses a very basic equation which assumes no growth, although it does rely on an assumption about the cost of capital as well as the fact that current earnings are sustainable. It also involves several adjustments to clean up the underlying Earnings figures.


Be Aware

Though using today's earnings in calculating Earnings Power Value, GuruFocus is normalizing these earnings to the business cycle. This eliminates the effects on profitability of valuing the firm at different points in the business cycle. This means that we are considering the average earnings over 5 years.


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CS Disco Business Description

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Address
111 Congress Avenue, Suite 900, Austin, TX, USA, 78701
CS Disco Inc provides a cloud-native, artificial intelligence-powered legal solution that simplifies discovery, legal document review, and case management for enterprises, law firms, legal services providers, and governments. Its revenue-generating activities directly relate to the sale and support of legal solutions. It has two primary types of contractual arrangements: usage-based and subscription solutions. The usage-based revenue is derived from contracts under which customers are billed monthly based on their usage. Subscription revenue is derived from contracts where customers are contractually committed to a minimum data volume over a period of time.
Executives
Michael Lafair officer: Chief Financial Officer C/O CS DISCO, INC., 3700 N. CAPITAL OF TEXAS HWY, SUITE 150, AUSTIN TX 78746
Scott A Hill director INTERCONTINENTALEXCHANGE, INC., 2100 RIVEREDGE PKWY. STE. 500, ATLANTA GA 30328
Kevin Joseph Smith officer: EVP, Chief Product Officer C/O CS DISCO, INC., 3700 N. CAPITAL OF TEXAS HWY, STE 150, AUSTIN TX 78746
James Offerdahl director 11501 DOMAIN DRIVE, SUITE 200, AUSTIN TX 78758
Keith Zoellner officer: Chief Technology Officer C/O CS DISCO, INC., 3700 N. CAPITAL OF TEXAS HWY, SUITE 150, AUSTIN TX 78746
Susan L Blount director C/O PRUDENTIAL FINANCIAL, INC, 751 BROAD STREET, FOURTH FLOOR, NEWARK NJ 07102
Andrew Shimek officer: Chief Revenue Officer C/O CS DISCO, INC., 3700 N. CAPITAL OF TEXAS HWY, SUITE 150, AUSTIN TX 02116
Kiwi Camara director, officer: Chief Executive Officer C/O CS DISCO, INC., 3700 N. CAPITAL OF TEXAS HWY, STE 150, AUSTIN TX 78746
Bessemer Venture Partners Viii L.p. 10 percent owner 1865 PALMER AVENUE, LARCHMONT NY 01538
Stephens Group, Llc 10 percent owner 100 RIVER BLUFF DRIVE, SUITE 500, LITTLE ROCK AR 72202
Lovp Sbic Management Services, Llc 10 percent owner 805 LAS CIMAS PARKWAY SUITE 125, AUSTIN CA 78746
Krishna Srinivasan director, 10 percent owner 4030 W. BRAKER LANE, BUILDING 2-100, AUSTIN TX 78759
Bessemer Venture Partners Viii Institutional L.p. 10 percent owner 1865 PALMER AVENUE, LARCHMONT NY 01538
Robert P Goodman director 1865 PALMER AVENUE, SUITE 104, LARCHMONT NY 10538
Deer Viii & Co. Ltd. 10 percent owner C/O BESSEMER VENTURE PARTNERS, 1865 PALMER AVENUE, LARCHMONT NY 10538