Seagate Technology Holdings PLC
STX NASDAQSeagate Technology Holdings PLC looks about 95% overvalued against its cash-flow value. Its growth outlook scores strong; analysts' mean target is about 6% higher.
At a glance
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the tiles above, in a line each- Value Looks ~95% overvalued against Otto's cash-flow estimate.
- Health 10 of 21 health checks pass.
- Growth Revenue trend ≈ -2%/yr (extended trend, not a forecast).
- Street Analysts lean buy · avg target +6% from here.
- Dividend Pays a dividend — yields 0.33%.
- Insiders Insiders, last 12 months: 0 buys · 6 sells.
Not investment advice — Otto just crunches numbers.
Price trend
+109.2% over six months · S&P 500 +12.2%
What think
The market's move: +109.2% over the past year
Trading 77% up its 52-week range. Price is the market's live vote — not advice.
Analyst consensus: Buy · 23 analysts
Average 12-month target $966.43 — +6.2% vs today.
Yahoo Finance's analyst aggregate. Sentiment, not advice.
Insiders: 0 buys · 6 sales in recent filings
Open-market trades from SEC Form 4. Sales are often pre-planned (10b5-1); buys tend to say more. Sentiment, not advice.
InvestRight readers: 0 watching
This site's own activity — not a broad measure. Sentiment, not advice.
The snowflake
checks passed on each axis- Value 0/2 checks
- Future 2/3 checks
- Past 3/4 checks
- Health 3/6 checks
- Dividend 2/6 checks
What does this show?
Five quick health scores — Value, Future, Past, Health and Dividend — each 0–100%. A bigger, more even shape means a stock that scores well across the board; a spiky one is strong on some axes and weak on others.
Learn more on Investopedia →Fair value
our estimate · not analyst forecast95% above our estimate — the price sits over what our numbers support.
How we got there
A 2-stage discounted-cash-flow on free cash flow: grow it at the capped historical trend for five years, fade to a 2.5% long-run rate, discount everything at 9.0%. It's a transparent estimate from past numbers, not a licensed forecast — treat it as one lens, not truth.
What does this show?
Our estimate of what one share is worth based on the cash the business is expected to generate (a discounted-cash-flow model), next to today's price. Below fair value hints undervalued, above hints expensive — it's an estimate, not a guarantee.
Learn more on Investopedia →Health checks
21 checks run on free data- ⚠ Trading below our fair-value estimate -95% vs our DCF estimate
- ⚠ Debt/equity falling over time long-term debt/equity 4644.0% vs 259.5%
- ⚠ Debt is under 40% of equity debt/equity 382%
- ⚠ Dividend growing over time over 10yr on record
- ⚠ No dividend cut in recent years a cut shows in the record
- ⚠ Revenue trending up -2.2%/yr over 9yr
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Value 0/2 passed
- ⚠ Trading below our fair-value estimate -95% vs our DCF estimate
- – P/B below industry industry P/B not on the free feed
- – P/E below industry industry P/E not on the free feed
- – P/E below peer average peer P/Es land after the next refresh
- – P/S sane vs its own history needs multi-year P/S (Tier B)
- ⚠ More than 20% below fair value -95% margin of safety
Future 2/3 passed
- ✓ Earnings trending up 21.9%/yr over 9yr
- – Growth beats the industry industry growth not on the free feed
- ✓ Earnings growth beats the market 21.9%/yr vs market ~9.0%
- ⚠ Revenue trending up -2.2%/yr over 9yr
- – Return on equity improving n/a
Past 3/4 passed
- ✓ Earnings grew over the period 248.0M → 1.5B
- – High-quality earnings (few one-offs) one-off detection deferred — needs statement detail
- ✓ Growth accelerating vs its average latest 338.5%/yr vs 21.9% average
- ⚠ Revenue higher than five years ago 11.2B → 9.1B
- ✓ Return on equity above 20% ROE 1788.0%
Health 3/6 passed
- ⚠ Debt/equity falling over time long-term debt/equity 4644.0% vs 259.5%
- ⚠ Debt is under 40% of equity debt/equity 382%
- ✓ Debt well covered by cash flow operating cash flow covers 22.0% of debt
- ✓ Interest comfortably covered by profit EBIT covers interest 5.9×
- ⚠ Short-term assets cover long-term debt 3.7B vs 5.8B
- ✓ Short-term assets cover short-term bills 3.7B vs 2.6B
Dividend 2/6 passed
- ✓ Dividend covered by earnings and cash flow covered by both earnings and free cash flow
- ⚠ Dividend growing over time over 10yr on record
- ⚠ No dividend cut in recent years a cut shows in the record
- ✓ Payout ratio under 75% payout 27.7% of earnings
- ⚠ Yield beats the market yield 0.33% vs market ~1.5%
- ⚠ Yield in the top quartile of payers yield 0.33% vs 2.54% cut among the 52 payers Otto tracks
What does this show?
Pass/fail rules on the company's finances — debt levels, profitability, cash cover and so on. More greens means a sturdier balance sheet; an n/a just means we didn't have that data point.
Learn more on Investopedia →Past performance
10-yr history from SEC EDGAR filingsRevenue
Earnings
Free cash flow
dashed line = what it'd look like growing at our ~9% market-average benchmark, for comparison
What does this show?
How revenue, earnings and free cash flow have grown over the years. Bars rising left-to-right show a growing business; the dashed line is a market-average pace for comparison.
Learn more on Investopedia →Future
trend, not analyst forecastRevenue · extended at -2.2%/yr
Earnings · extended at 15.0%/yr
Dashed bars just extend the historical trend (capped at ±15%/yr) — the same growth our DCF uses. It's arithmetic on the past, not an analyst forecast; real futures bend.
What does this show?
Solid bars are history; dashed bars simply extend the past growth trend a few years forward — capped so it stays sane. It's a trend line, not an analyst forecast.
Learn more on Investopedia →Dividend
from cash actually paid, not promisesTotal dividends paid · split-proof, unlike per-share history
What does this show?
The share of profit paid back to shareholders as cash. Yield is that cash as a % of the price; the payout gauge shows how much of earnings is paid out (over ~75% can be hard to sustain).
Learn more on Investopedia →Ownership & insiders
from SEC Form 4 filings0 open-market buys · 6 sales in the last 10 saved filings
- Sell Mosley William D · CEO 9,343 sh · $8.64M 2026-07-01
- Exercise Mosley William D · CEO 14,000 sh · $647,220 2026-07-01
- Sell Mosley William D · CEO 20,657 sh · $18.81M 2026-07-01
- Sell Morris John Christopher · EVP & CTO 1,364 sh · $1.20M 2026-06-12
- Sell Teh Ban Seng · EVP & Chief Commercial Officer 989 sh · $870,508 2026-06-12
- Sell Romano Gianluca · EVP & CFO 903 sh · $795,029 2026-06-12
- Sell Mosley William D · CEO 1,768 sh · $1.56M 2026-06-12
- Exercise Morris John Christopher · EVP & CTO 942 sh 2026-06-11
- Exercise Teh Ban Seng · EVP & Chief Commercial Officer 989 sh 2026-06-11
- Exercise Chong Kian Fatt · EVP Global Operations 678 sh 2026-06-11
Insiders must report within two business days. Sales are often pre-planned (10b5-1) rather than a signal — buys tend to say more.
What does this show?
Buys and sells by the company's own directors and officers, from their SEC filings. Insiders sell for many reasons, but clusters of open-market buying can signal confidence.
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What does this show?
A few peers in the same business, each with its own mini snowflake, so you can see how this company stacks up rather than judging it in isolation. Anyone signed in can add a missing competitor — it shows for everyone, marked as user-added.
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