-$3.00
$1.90
bear -$3.00
base $0.00
bull $1.90
margin of safety $0.00
market price* $3.09
Business condition attached to the margin of safety
Owner earnings after stock-based compensation positive for at least two consecutive fiscal years, and the term loan due August 2028 refinanced or repaid on terms that do not rely on new equity issuance.
Domo generates revenue of roughly $319 million a year (fiscal year ended January 31, 2026: $318.9 million, versus $317.0 million and $319.0 million in the two prior years), so the top line has been flat for three years. About 80% of revenue comes from customers billed in the United States. The central issue is that the business does not earn money for its owners once the cost of paying employees in stock is counted. Cash from operations was only $7.9 million in fiscal 2026 (and negative or near zero in the four years before it), while stock-based compensation was $56.1 million. Stock compensation is a real cost to shareholders, because it is paid with new shares: the diluted share count rose from 32.0 million in fiscal 2022 to 41.0 million in fiscal 2026. We therefore subtract it. After also removing working-capital swings and about $9.9 million of equipment and software spending, owner earnings were about negative $64 million, or negative $1.56 per share, in fiscal 2026. The five-year series (fiscal 2022 to 2026) runs -$3.21, -$2.98, -$2.05, -$1.94 and -$1.56 per share. The median is -$1.94. It is improving, but every year is negative. Debt matters too. At January 31, 2026 the company had a term loan with a carrying amount of $126.5 million, secured by substantially all of its assets, maturing August 19, 2028. Part of the interest is paid in cash (about 6.9% at year end) and part accrues at 5% and is added to the principal, and the loan carries a minimum recurring-revenue covenant tested quarterly. Following our method, we do not deduct this debt from the value; instead, it is the main reason the low case is weak. The first half of fiscal 2027 (six months ended July 31, 2026) was mixed. Revenue was $156.2 million versus $159.8 million a year earlier, a decline of about 2%. Cash from operations was negative $1.2 million versus positive $7.3 million. On the other hand, the net loss narrowed to $23.8 million from $41.0 million, and stock compensation fell to $23.8 million from $28.7 million. We treat this as consistent with our cases and do not change the earnings level based on it. Low case (about -$3.00 per share). Owner earnings stay negative, revenue stays flat to down, and the August 2028 loan cannot be refinanced on acceptable terms. In this case the business is worth nothing on the evidence we have, and the company appears to owe more than it is worth: the $126.5 million loan balance, before further accrued interest, is roughly $3 per share. In practice shareholders' loss is limited to what they paid, but the case shows the loan can absorb all of the value. Base case ($0 per share). We credit no improvement. The base case assumes the loan is extended or refinanced, but nothing we can name and evidence today turns negative owner earnings positive. Year-one growth in owner earnings assumed is zero, versus actual improvement of about $0.38 per share (about 20%) in fiscal 2026; that is below the trailing rate, so no reversal argument is needed. Stock compensation has fallen from $83.9 million in fiscal 2023 to $56.1 million in fiscal 2026, but a company that still loses money after that decline, with revenue flat, is a turnaround in progress rather than a secured outcome, so it is left out and the value is $0. High case (about $1.90 per share). Here the company's own demonstrated behavior continues: owner earnings per share improve by about $0.40 a year (roughly the average of the last four years' improvement), reaching break-even in the fourth year and about +$1.24 per share by the seventh, held flat through year ten, with the loan refinanced. Nothing is credited after year ten. Discounted at 6%, this is worth about $1.90 per share. We did not credit revenue growth, since revenue has been flat and fell in the latest half-year. What would make this wrong: if stock compensation keeps falling faster than the revenue softness offsets, the high case becomes more likely; if the recent 2% revenue decline continues, the covenant on recurring revenue and the 2028 maturity become harder to manage, and even the base case would be too generous. Working-capital lines were pulled from the cash-flow statement; a few smaller operating lines could not be individually reconciled, but they are small relative to the $56 million stock compensation charge that drives the result. The margin-of-safety price sits well below any of these figures and applies only once owner earnings turn positive and the loan is addressed.