US Equities Analysis

NOW — ServiceNow

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2. Company Fundamentals

2.1 Competitiveness

Metric Value
Operating Margins 13.34%
Profit Margins 12.59%
Return on Equity 16.07%
Return on Assets 5.66%
Free Float 1.03B
Short Int % Utilisation 5.93%

2.2 Growth

Metric Value
Revenue Growth 22.1%
Free Cash Flow 5.11B
EBITDA 36.92 (Ratio)
Enterprise Value 106.63B
EV/Revenue 7.64
EV/EBITDA 36.92

Revenue growth of 22.1% places the company in a high-growth category.

2.3 Management

Role Metric
Consensus Rating N/A

2.4 Return

Metric Value
Expected Return (Ann.)* -17.09%
Risk / Std Dev (Ann.)* 54.73%
1-Year Price Return* -28.51%

Latest Market Data (as of 2026-08-14, US Eastern time):

Metric Value
Last Price $124.00
52-Week Range $81.24 – $194.73
Observation Count 251 trading days

The return and risk statistics use daily adjusted closes from the retrieved one-year series and annualise daily moments using 252 trading days. The last price is the latest regular-market price reported for the stated date. Source: Yahoo Finance market data.

2.5 Valuation & Cash Flow

Valuation basis: The operating-company framework starts with reported EBIT, taxes, non-cash charges, capital expenditure and working-capital movement to derive unlevered free cash flow. It is a current-input research view, not an intrinsic-value target price because a sourced forecast and peer-beta workstream are still required.

Valuation input Value
Last market price $117.70
Market capitalisation $121.69B
Enterprise value proxy $117.80B
Revenue $13.28B
EBIT $2.28B
EBITDA $3.02B
Reported free cash flow $4.53B
Unlevered free cash flow $1.62B
FCF yield 3.73%
EV / EBITDA proxy 38.98x
Net debt / EBITDA -1.28x

WACC Workbench

WACC input Value
Risk-free rate 4.72%
Equity risk premium assumption 5.50%
Beta 0.93
Cost of equity 9.84%
Pre-tax cost of debt 0.98%
WACC 9.66%
WACC validation within standard range

2.6 Investor-Style Research Screen

Educational screen Result
Buffett-inspired cash-quality checks 4/4 evidenced checks
Lynch-inspired balance-and-growth checks 4/4 evidenced checks

Data lineage: Yahoo Finance public market and statement data; retrieval timestamp: 2026-08-17 23:47:23.273316 UTC; latest reported fiscal period: 2025-12-31 00:00:00. WACC uses a live 10-year Treasury proxy when available, a 5.50% ERP assumption, reported beta where available, and an interest-expense / average-debt proxy for cost of debt. This is research and analysis only, not personalized financial advice.

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