Microstrategy Inc

MSTR

Services-Prepackaged Software

Mkt Cap

$28.8B

PE

-338.06

Debt

$3.559B

Cash

$81.33M

EV

$32.28B

FCF

-$82K

Market Cap

$28.8B

P/E Ratio

-338.06

Debt

$3.559B

Cash

$81.33M

EV

$32.28B

FCF

-$82K

Charts data: {"Earnings":[{"time":"2014-12-30","value":5035000},{"time":"2015-12-30","value":105931000},{"time":"2016-12-30","value":90908000},{"time":"2017-12-30","value":17643000},{"time":"2018-12-30","value":22501000},{"time":"2019-12-30","value":34355000},{"time":"2020-12-30","value":-7524000},{"time":"2021-12-30","value":-535480000},{"time":"2022-12-30","value":-1469797000},{"time":"2023-12-30","value":429121000}],"Sales":[{"time":"2014-12-30","value":579830000},{"time":"2015-12-30","value":529869000},{"time":"2016-12-30","value":512161000},{"time":"2017-12-30","value":504543000},{"time":"2018-12-30","value":497638000},{"time":"2019-12-30","value":486327000},{"time":"2020-12-30","value":480735000},{"time":"2021-12-30","value":510762000},{"time":"2022-12-30","value":499264000},{"time":"2023-12-30","value":496261000}],"Net Margins":[{"time":"2014-12-30","value":0.008683579669903248},{"time":"2015-12-30","value":0.19991922531795595},{"time":"2016-12-30","value":0.17749887242488202},{"time":"2017-12-30","value":0.03496827822405622},{"time":"2018-12-30","value":0.04521559848725379},{"time":"2019-12-30","value":0.07064176983798967},{"time":"2020-12-30","value":-0.015651034353645978},{"time":"2021-12-30","value":-1.0483943597996719},{"time":"2022-12-30","value":-2.9439274612229203},{"time":"2023-12-30","value":0.8647082885820163}],"Assets":[{"time":"2014-12-30","value":558797000},{"time":"2015-12-30","value":656894000},{"time":"2016-12-30","value":768319000},{"time":"2017-12-30","value":835728000},{"time":"2018-12-30","value":855768000},{"time":"2019-12-30","value":916571000},{"time":"2020-12-30","value":1465612000},{"time":"2021-12-30","value":3557124000},{"time":"2022-12-30","value":2410272000},{"time":"2023-12-30","value":4762528000}],"Stockholders Equity":[{"time":"2014-12-30","value":324471000},{"time":"2015-12-30","value":455281000},{"time":"2016-12-30","value":552177000},{"time":"2017-12-30","value":590539000},{"time":"2018-12-30","value":529731000},{"time":"2019-12-30","value":508559000},{"time":"2020-12-30","value":553045000},{"time":"2021-12-30","value":978958000},{"time":"2022-12-30","value":-383120000},{"time":"2023-12-30","value":2164972000}],"ROE":[{"time":"2014-12-30","value":0.015517565514329477},{"time":"2015-12-30","value":0.23267169067015755},{"time":"2016-12-30","value":0.16463561502923882},{"time":"2017-12-30","value":0.029876096244278533},{"time":"2018-12-30","value":0.042476275694645016},{"time":"2019-12-30","value":0.06755361718109404},{"time":"2020-12-30","value":-0.013604679546872316},{"time":"2021-12-30","value":-0.5469897584983217},{"time":"2022-12-30","value":3.8363880768427645},{"time":"2023-12-30","value":0.1982108775540746}],"ROA":[{"time":"2014-12-30","value":0.01977641254337443},{"time":"2015-12-30","value":0.209872521289584},{"time":"2016-12-30","value":0.14713419816508508},{"time":"2017-12-30","value":0.08897033484578715},{"time":"2018-12-30","value":0.02393405689392452},{"time":"2019-12-30","value":0.04174581129012373},{"time":"2020-12-30","value":-0.00929645772550989},{"time":"2021-12-30","value":-0.22055092822178815},{"time":"2022-12-30","value":-0.5292937892486823},{"time":"2023-12-30","value":-0.024156708370008533}]}

MicroStrategy Incorporated provides enterprise analytics software and services in the United States, Canada, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and internationally. It offers MicroStrategy, an enterprise analytics software platform that enables users to create visualizations, customize apps, and embed analytics directly into workflows; and MicroStrategy Cloud Environment, a managed software-as-a-service solution, which offers always-on threat monitoring and enables rapid analytics development and deployment to deliver security and data privacy requirements. The company also provides MicroStrategy Support that helps customers to achieve their system availability and uptime goals, and to improve the overall experience through highly responsive troubleshooting and proactive technical product support. In addition, it offers MicroStrategy Consulting, which offers customers with architecture and implementation services to help them quickly realize results, as well as helps to achieve returns on investment derived from understanding of data; and MicroStrategy Education that provides free and paid learning options, as well as holds and acquires bitcoin. The company offers its services through enterprise sales force and channel partners. It serves companies from a range of industries, including banking, technology, consulting, manufacturing, insurance, healthcare, and telecommunications, as well as the public sector. The company was incorporated in 1989 and is headquartered in Tysons Corner, Virginia.

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Chart P/E ratio

In the chart Earnings are multiplied by this value.

Earnings Growth 0.42%

Earnings Stability -44%

Competitiveness and MOAT

High margins render the company resilient under dire circumstances, hence able to drive competitors out or acquire them. ROE and ROA measure the average flow generated by each invested dollar. Their marginal value is a forecast of future growth, and it is considered by Buffett and Munger the most important single indicator.

The Net Margin is too low to guarantee profitability in case of higher costs or higher interest rates. Furthermore lower margins cause higher earnings’ volatility.

Over time the ROA has been decreasing indicating a lower marginal ROA with respect to the calculated one, this could impede growth.

Years	12-2015	12-2016	12-2017	12-2018	12-2019	12-2020	12-2021	12-2022	12-2023	TTM
Net Margin	20%	18%	3.5%	4.5%	7.1%	-1.6%	-100%	-290%	86%	-17%
ROA	21%	15%	8.9%	2.4%	4.2%	-0.93%	-22%	-53%	-2.4%	-5.1%
ROE	23%	16%	3%	4.2%	6.8%	-1.4%	-55%	380%	20%	-3.5%

What is the average Net Margin?

The average Net Margin over the past 5 years is -50.46%.

What is the trend of Net Margin?

The trend of Net Margin over the past 5 years is -17.08%.

What is the average Return on Assets (ROA)?

The average ROA over the past 5 years is -11.96%.

What is the trend of Return on Assets (ROA)?

The trend of ROA over the past 5 years is -6.19%.

What is the average Return on Equity (ROE)?

The average ROE over the past 5 years is +59.73%.

What is the trend of Return on Equity (ROE)?

The trend of ROE over the past 5 years is +33.01%.

Safety & Stabiliy

Being debt the number one cause of investment losses and company death, the ratio Debt/FCF is of utmost importance to guarantee safety. On the other hand the Graham’s stability measures the drawdown of earnings, hence indicating the reliability of the flow generated by the company.

Under the assumption that FCF does not diminish and debt does not increase, the current years to repay the debt are acceptable.

The Graham’s stability indicate a relevant drawdown, consider checking when it has occured and why.

Years	12-2015	12-2016	12-2017	12-2018	12-2019	12-2020	12-2021	12-2022	12-2023	TTM
Debt FCF	-	-	-	-	0.00	9.73	23.65	3281.40	223.31	-43406.01
Debt Equity	-	-	-	-	0.00	0.88	2.20	-6.21	1.01	1.48
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Graham Stability	-	-	26%	31%	79%	-30%	-3.3K%	-	-	-3.3K%

What is the Debt/FCF?

The Debt/FCF trailing twelve month is -43406.01.

What is the trend of Debt/FCF?

The trend of Debt/FCF over the past 5 years is 371.83.

What is the Graham’s Stability?

Graham’s Stability measure stands at -32.56.

Growth

Growth can be dangerous when forecasting, simply projecting the current growth is in general wrong. A company passes through multiple phases, from being young and unprofitable, to the first periods of profitability and high growth, until it arrives at a period of regime with limited growth. Identifying in which phase the company is in may help forecasting.

Earnings growth has not been increasing in the past years.

Years	12-2016	12-2018	12-2020	12-2022	Trend
Revenue	-0.45%	-0.055%	1.1%	-0.6%	0.85%
Net Income	25%	80%	-	-	-390%
Stockholders Equity	22%	33%	58%	-	2.6%
FCF	-29%	21%	-42%	1.2K%	-350%

What is the 5 year Revenue CAGR?

The Revenue CAGR over the past 5 years is -0.06%.

What is the trend of Revenue growth?

The trend of Revenue growth rate over the past 5 years is +0.85%.

What is the 5 year Earnings CAGR?

The Earnings CAGR over the past 5 years is +80.33%.

What is the trend of Earnings growth?

The trend of Earnings growth rate over the past 5 years is -386.07%.

What is the 5 year Equity CAGR?

The Equity CAGR over the past 5 years is +32.52%.

What is the trend of Equity growth?

The trend of Equity growth rate over the past 5 years is +2.65%.

What is the 5 year FCF CAGR?

The FCF CAGR over the past 5 years is +20.92%.

What is the trend of FCF growth?

The trend of FCF growth rate over the past 5 years is -351.51%.