QualityDipStocks / Consumer Discretionary · Other Consumer Services
H&R Block HRB
Outside our quality screen, so we don’t track its dips. It’s 5% below its 52-week high.
Outside our quality screen, trading well below our fair value estimate, 8% over its Market Value.
- Fair value est.
- $100.34+96%
- Market Value
- $47.63price +8%
- Off 52-wk high
- −5%
- Risk vs market
- Lowbeta −0.31
5 bullish · 5 bearish See why
Key levels
Every level vs today’s $51.31
- 52-wk lowlowest close, 1 year$28.34−44.8%
- Market Valueavg paid since Aug 11$47.63−7.2%
- PriceFri Oct 30 close$51.31you are here
- 52-wk highhighest close, 1 year$54.18+5.6%
- Fair value est.base case$100.34+95.6%
Fair value estimate
How the range is computed
Ten-year free-cash-flow DCF. Same 10-year free-cash-flow model as the base: discount rate 9.5% ±1 point and growth 4.4% ±2 points. Bear = 10.5% and 2.4%; bull = 8.5% and 6.4% (both fade to 3%). A model estimate from public filings, not a forecast of where the price will go.
Price is below even the bear case.
What the price implies To be worth today’s price, HRB’s free cash flow would need to shrink about 7% a year for five years; our estimate uses 4%.
Risk vs market
How risk vs market is measured
One year of daily returns (Oct 30 to Oct 30, 252 sessions). Beta = how much HRB moved for each 1% move in the S&P 500 (SPY); 1.0 moves with the market. Volatility is the yearly standard deviation of daily returns. Past behavior, not a forecast.
Has moved mostly independently of the market, but its own price swings are 3.8× the S&P 500’s (it moves on its own news).
- Beta vs S&P 500
- -0.31
- Volatility
- 48% vs 13% SPY
- Correlation SPY
- −0.08
- Correlation QQQ
- −0.18
Bull vs bear
Rule-based from the data on this page, strongest first. Not advice.
Top bullish points 5 of 5
ValuationOur DCF fair value estimate is $100.34, 96% above the price.
ValuationFree-cash-flow yield of 11.4% (price / FCF 8.7×): $756M of free cash in the last 12 months.
ValuationP/E of 9.0× vs a 20.9× median for the 169 Consumer Discretionary companies we cover.
Cash returnsShare count down 5.6% in a year.
GrowthDiluted EPS grew 29% to $5.66 in FY2026.
Top bearish points 5 of 5
Balance sheetDebt is 12.7× shareholders’ equity.
ValuationPrice / book of 56.3×, above the 4.9× median for the 151 Consumer Discretionary companies we cover.
GrowthSales grew 4.9% over the last 12 months, below the 7.0% median for the 175 Consumer Discretionary companies we cover.
GrowthSales grew 4.4% a year over the last three fiscal years, below the 6.1% median for the 179 Consumer Discretionary companies we cover.
ValuationTrades 7.7% above its Market Value of $47.63, the average price paid since the Aug 11 filing.
Who’s talking about it
Notable investors, executives, analysts and public figures on H&R Block in the last 48 hours. Headlines as published, each linked. Their words, not ours.
No notable mentions in the last 48 hours. Checked Nov 1, 9:09 PM ET.
Compare with peers
Closest in size in Other Consumer Services
All fundamentals
P/E 9.0 · FCF yield 11.4% · Sales +5%
Valuation
- P/E
- 9.0×Consumer Discretionary median 20.9×
- Price / FCF
- 8.7×
- FCF yield
- 11.4%
- EV / EBITDA
- n/aD&A or debt not tagged in SEC data
- Price / sales
- 1.68×
- Price / book
- 56.28×
- Market cap
- $6.6Bprice × diluted shares
- Enterprise value
- $7.1B
Growth
- Revenue, 12 months
- $3.9B
- Sales growth, 12 months
- +4.9%vs the 12 months before
- Sales growth, 3 yrs
- +4.4%/yrfrom FY2023
- Diluted EPS, 12 months
- $5.66
- EPS growth, last FY
- +28.9%
- Net income, 12 months
- $733M
- Net income growth
- +21%12 months vs before
Profitability
- Gross margin
- 44.3%
- Operating margin
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
- Net margin
- 18.6%
- FCF margin
- 19.2%
- Return on equity
- n/an/m: very small or negative equity
- Return on invested capital
- n/aoperating income, debt, equity or cash not tagged
Balance sheet
- Cash & short-term inv.
- $959M
- Total debt
- $1.5B
- Net cash
- −$533M
- Debt / equity
- 12.69×
- Interest coverage
- n/ainterest expense not tagged in SEC data
Cash flow & returns
- Free cash flow, 12 months
- $756M
- FCF growth, 12 months
- +26%
- Dividend yield
- 3.19%$211M paid
- Payout ratio
- 29%
- Buybacks, 12 months
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
- Share count, 1 year
- −5.6%diluted shares vs a year ago
- Stock-based comp
- $30M
Trailing 12 months to Jun 30, 2026; balance sheet at Jun 30, 2026. From H&R Block’s SEC filings. Sparklines show up to six fiscal years. n/a means we don’t hold that number, with the reason. How each is computed.
Valuation details
DCF $100.34 · MV $47.63 · FCF value $130.38
Assumes 4.4% growth for 5 years (revenue grew 4.4% a year FY23–FY26), fading to 3%; 9.5% discount rate, 3% terminal growth. FCF base $5.87 a share (fiscal year to Jun 30, 2026), from the 10-K filed Aug 14, 2026. Net debt $533M, not deducted.
Setup & signals
No setup armed
No setup armed, so there’s no trigger or stop to track yet. Reversal signal rules only run on companies that pass our quality screen.
Momentum & 52-week range
RSI 66 · 5 days +3.3%
The business
FCF $0.6B · Sales +3%
- Free cash flow, 12 months$0.6B
- Free-cash-flow yield10.2%
- Free-cash-flow margin16%
- Gross margin44%
- Operating margin33%
- Return on invested capital81%
- Return on equity714%
- Sales growth (latest quarter vs year-ago quarter)+3%
- Net debt / EBITDA1.1×
Next report
Nov 9
- DateMon Nov 9, after the close
- Consensus EPS($1.39)
- Year-ago EPS($1.20)
- QuarterSep/2026
From Nasdaq’s earnings calendar. A report resets Market Value.
Information only, not investment advice. Fair value estimates and talking points are rule-based model output from public data and can be wrong; stop levels are reference points, not orders. How every number is computed.
HRB is outside our quality screen
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