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WORK NYSE

Slack Technologies, Inc.
1W: +2.8% 1M: +2.1% 3M: +7.4% 1Y: +35.8%
$45.20
Last traded 2021-07-20 — delisted
NYSE · Technology · Software - Application

Edge Score

Quantitative competitive moat analysis scoring five pillars of durable advantage — cost leadership, brand intangibles, switching costs, network effects, and efficient scale — using industry percentile rankings on a 0–100 scale.

NARROW EDGE
59.5 / 100
NoneWeakNarrowWide
Primary source: Switching Costs  ·  ROIC: 383.6%
Cost Advantage
50
Intangibles
67
Switching Cost
72
Network Effect
43
Scale
55
The Edge Score quantifies a company's competitive moat using five pillars: Cost Advantage (20%, operating margin and SG&A efficiency vs industry peers), Intangible Assets (25%, gross margin premium, R&D intensity, brand pricing power), Switching Costs (25%, revenue stability, earnings consistency, customer retention proxied by operating leverage), Network Effects (15%, revenue growth with expanding margins, market share dominance), and Efficient Scale (15%, market concentration, ROIC sustainability). Each pillar is scored 0–100 using industry percentile rankings, then weighted into a composite. Wide ≥ 70, Narrow ≥ 55, Weak ≥ 40, None < 40. WORK has a Narrow competitive edge (59.5/100) — meaningful but not impregnable advantages over competitors. The primary source of advantage is Switching Costs. ROIC of 383.6% confirms the company is generating returns well above its cost of capital — a hallmark of durable competitive advantages.

Analyst Insights

Wall Street analyst consensus based on price targets and buy/sell/hold recommendations from institutional research coverage over the trailing 12 months.

Analyst Price Targets
Analyst Recommendations
Strong Buy: 0Buy: 13Hold: 11Sell: 2Strong Sell: 0
Rating Summary
ConsensusBuy
Avg Target$—
Analysts0

InsiderStreet Scorecard

Proprietary multi-factor scorecard rating companies across seven fundamental dimensions — profitability, balance sheet strength, earnings quality, growth, value, momentum, and safety — each scored 0–100.

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 55 Grade D
Profitability
20
Balance Sheet
58
Earnings Quality
35
Growth
88
Value
32
Momentum
80
Safety
100
Cash Flow
48
The InsiderStreet Scorecard rates companies across eight dimensions: Profitability (margins, ROA, ROE), Balance Sheet (leverage, liquidity, coverage), Earnings Quality (accruals, cash conversion), Growth (revenue and earnings trajectory), Value (P/E, P/B, earnings yield, Graham criteria), Momentum (revenue and earnings acceleration), Safety (Altman Z-Score risk adjustment), and Cash Flow (operating cash flow quality, FCF conversion, cash coverage). The overall score blends 35% quality, 35% value, and 30% momentum, with a penalty for distress-zone Altman scores. WORK scores highest in Safety (100/100) and lowest in Profitability (20/100). A grade of D flags significant fundamental concerns across multiple dimensions.

Risk & Quality Signals

Academic financial models used by institutional investors to assess bankruptcy risk, earnings manipulation, financial strength, and credit quality.

Altman Z-Score
9.47
Safe Zone
Piotroski F-Score
5/9
✗ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✓
Beneish M-Score
-2.67
Unlikely Manipulator
Ohlson O-Score
-6.81
Bankruptcy prob: 0.1%
Low Risk
Credit Rating
BBB+
Score: 61.6/100
Trend: Improving
Earnings Quality
—
OCF/NI: -0.50x
Accruals: -16.6%
The Altman Z-Score (1968) combines five ratios — working capital, retained earnings, EBIT, market value of equity, and sales, all relative to total assets or liabilities — into a single bankruptcy predictor. WORK scores 9.47, placing it in the Safe Zone (safe > 2.99, distress < 1.81). Bankruptcy is statistically unlikely within the next two years. The Piotroski F-Score (2000) is a 9-point binary checklist — four profitability tests (positive ROA, positive cash flow, improving ROA, cash flow exceeding net income), three leverage tests (declining debt ratio, improving current ratio, no share dilution), and two efficiency tests (improving gross margin, improving asset turnover). Each pass scores 1 point. WORK scores 5/9, indicating moderate financial health — some areas of strength offset by weaknesses in others. The Beneish M-Score (1999) is an 8-variable model that detects earnings manipulation by comparing year-over-year changes in receivables, gross margins, asset quality, sales growth, depreciation, SG&A, leverage, and accruals. Scores above −1.78 statistically resemble past manipulators. WORK's score of -2.67 falls below this threshold, suggesting earnings are unlikely to be manipulated. The Ohlson O-Score (1980) is a 9-variable logistic regression that estimates bankruptcy probability using firm size, leverage, working capital, current ratio, profitability (ROA), cash flow coverage, negative equity flag, consecutive losses flag, and earnings trajectory. The raw score is converted to a probability via logistic transformation. WORK's implied 0.1% bankruptcy probability is well within safe territory. Our Credit Rating model scores companies on five weighted components — solvency (30%), earning power (25%), leverage (20%), liquidity (15%), and cash flow quality (10%) — then blends the absolute score with sector and industry peer rankings. For companies with large buyback programs, equity is adjusted by adding back cumulative 5-year repurchases (capped at 80% of FCF generated) to avoid penalizing shareholder-friendly capital allocation. WORK receives an estimated rating of BBB+ (score: 61.6/100), with a improving trend.

Valuation

Key valuation multiples comparing the stock's market price to its earnings, revenue, book value, and cash flows. Lower multiples may indicate relative undervaluation versus peers.

P/E
-85.28x
PEG
-0.82x
P/S
0.00x
P/B
29.90x
P/FCF
207.46x
P/OCF
194.98x
EV/EBITDA
-140.73x
EV/Revenue
24.34x
EV/EBIT
-119.71x
EV/FCF
199.53x
Earnings Yield
-1.03%
FCF Yield
0.48%
Shareholder Yield
0.00%
Graham Number
—
Equity-based multiples (P/E, P/B, P/FCF) compare the stock price to per-share fundamentals and are affected by capital structure. Enterprise value multiples (EV/EBITDA, EV/Revenue, EV/FCF) strip out debt and cash, making them more useful for cross-company comparisons regardless of how companies are financed. The Graham Number — √(22.5 × EPS × Book Value) — is Benjamin Graham's formula for the maximum price a defensive investor should pay. WORK currently has negative earnings — the P/E ratio is not meaningful.

DuPont Decomposition (5-Factor)

The 5-factor DuPont framework breaks Return on Equity into its component drivers — tax efficiency, interest burden, operating profitability, asset utilization, and financial leverage — to reveal what truly drives shareholder returns.

Tax Burden
1.002
NI / EBT
×
Interest Burden
1.275
EBT / EBIT
×
EBIT Margin
-0.203
EBIT / Rev
×
Asset Turnover
0.425
Rev / Assets
×
Equity Multiplier
2.649
Assets / Equity
=
ROE
-29.3%
The 5-factor DuPont identity decomposes ROE as: Tax Burden × Interest Burden × EBIT Margin × Asset Turnover × Equity Multiplier = ROE. This reveals whether returns are driven by operating performance, financial leverage, or tax efficiency — three very different sources of profitability. WORK's ROE of -29.3% is driven by Asset Turnover (0.425), indicating efficient use of assets to generate revenue. A tax burden ratio of 1.00 indicates minimal tax leakage — the company retains over 90% of pre-tax earnings.

Graham-Dodd Adjusted Valuation

Our adaptation of Graham's growth formula (Fair P/E = 8.5 + 2g) from The Intelligent Investor. The classic version relies on analyst growth projections, which can be unreliable. This adjusted model substitutes the company's realized 3-year EPS CAGR — a backward-looking, verifiable measure of actual earnings power — grounding the valuation in demonstrated performance rather than forecasts.

Two adjustments we make, and why. Growth is capped at 15%. Graham defined g as expected growth over the next seven to ten years, not last year's rate. Across US companies since 1994 the median realized 7-year EPS growth is 5–8% regardless of how fast a company grew beforehand, and of 4,457 company-quarters that grew faster than 200%, none sustained it. Uncapped, the formula assigned fair multiples in the hundreds to companies that had never held that rate — and scored worse than simply reading the P/E. Capped, it carries real information. The verdict has three states, not two. Tested over 377,249 stock-months, this ratio only separates outcomes at its extremes: below 0.25 beat the universe by 1.3 points a year, above 3.0 lagged by 2.7, and everything in between sat inside a one-point band. Rather than call two-thirds of the market "undervalued" on a threshold of 1.0, we say Neutral where the model cannot tell — which is most of the time.

Adj. Growth Rate
0.00%
Fair P/E
8.50x
Intrinsic Value
—
Price/Value
—
Margin of Safety
—
Premium
—

Profitability Trends

Historical profitability ratios tracking how efficiently the company converts revenue into returns for shareholders over time.

Leverage & Solvency Trends

Debt and liquidity metrics showing the company's financial leverage and ability to meet short-term and long-term obligations.

Efficiency & Working Capital Trends

Operating efficiency metrics measuring how quickly the company converts inventory to sales, collects receivables, and manages its cash conversion cycle.

Growth Trends (YoY %)

Year-over-year growth rates for key financial metrics, showing the trajectory of revenue, earnings, and cash flow generation.

Earnings Stability

R-squared of linear regression measuring how predictably revenue, earnings, and margins follow a trend over the trailing 5 years. 1.0 = perfectly predictable; lower values indicate erratic or cyclical behavior.

Monte Carlo Price Simulation

Geometric Brownian Motion with 1,000 antithetic paths over 1 year, seeded from 525 days of historical volatility. Percentile bands show the range of statistically plausible outcomes — this is a statistical model, not a forecast.

Current Price
$45.20
Median 1Y
$41.11
5th Pctile
$16.69
95th Pctile
$101.74
Ann. Volatility
58.4%
25th–75th percentile 5th–95th percentile Median path Historical
All Ratios & Metrics

Complete fundamental data with up to 20 periods of history, sparkline trends, and current values across 13 categories and 130+ financial metrics.

Profitability
Metric Trend Q2'20 Q3'20 Q4'20 Q1'21 Q2'21 Q3'21 Q4'21 Q1'22 Current
ROE -48.0% -60.1% -74.3% -72.9% -40.6% -37.9% -38.0% -29.3% -29.27%
ROA -30.6% -37.9% -37.3% -28.4% -19.4% -17.6% -15.5% -11.1% -11.05%
ROIC 8.1% 13.5% -2.4% 14.7% 46.5% 9.6% 5.1% 3.8% 3.84%
ROCE -47.0% -46.7% -39.5% -26.3% -7.9% -10.6% -14.7% -11.2% -11.17%
Gross Margin 78.5% 86.3% 86.6% 87.3% 86.8% 86.1% 86.0% 85.6% 85.65%
Operating Margin -2.5% -56.3% -50.1% -37.8% -31.8% -28.0% -29.0% -20.2% -20.22%
Net Margin -2.5% -52.8% -48.9% -37.3% -34.7% -29.2% -32.7% -10.2% -10.22%
EBITDA Margin -2.5% -48.3% -44.6% -32.1% -25.4% -19.4% -24.3% -2.7% -2.70%
FCF Margin -5.4% -8.6% -6.1% -3.8% -1.0% 5.0% 6.6% 12.2% 12.20%
OCF Margin 0.2% -2.8% 0.4% 1.5% 3.2% 8.1% 8.0% 13.0% 12.98%
ROIC Economic snapshot only -13.21%
Cash ROA snapshot only 5.22%
NOPAT Margin snapshot only -21.26%
Pretax Margin snapshot only -25.92%
R&D / Revenue snapshot only 40.49%
SGA / Revenue snapshot only 72.53%
SBC / Revenue snapshot only 23.88%
Valuation
Metric Trend Q2'20 Q3'20 Q4'20 Q1'21 Q2'21 Q3'21 Q4'21 Q1'22 Current
P/E Ratio -34.25 -26.67 -21.49 -24.27 -50.81 -47.45 -80.89 -97.40 -85.283
P/S Ratio 84.96 38.16 23.32 21.34 21.71 17.50 26.92 25.31 0.000
P/B Ratio 16.43 16.02 15.96 17.70 19.24 16.64 28.34 27.74 29.897
P/FCF -1564.78 -443.68 -381.21 -558.69 -2088.75 352.84 406.15 207.46 207.462
P/OCF 38368.76 — 6652.38 1421.50 677.47 216.93 335.47 194.98 194.977
EV/EBITDA -32.31 -25.54 -21.20 -23.96 -56.01 -55.61 -103.59 -140.73 -140.734
EV/Revenue 79.54 35.69 22.22 20.08 20.57 16.41 25.92 24.34 24.340
EV/EBIT -31.71 -30.79 -30.29 -32.18 -118.72 -73.54 -91.87 -119.71 -119.708
EV/FCF -1465.00 -414.99 -363.34 -525.86 -1979.49 331.03 391.09 199.53 199.529
Earnings Yield -2.9% -3.7% -4.7% -4.1% -2.0% -2.1% -1.2% -1.0% -1.03%
FCF Yield -0.1% -0.2% -0.3% -0.2% -0.0% 0.3% 0.2% 0.5% 0.48%
Price/Tangible Book snapshot only 30.958
EV/OCF snapshot only 187.521
EV/Gross Profit snapshot only 28.266
Shareholder Yield snapshot only 0.00%
Leverage & Solvency
Metric Trend Q2'20 Q3'20 Q4'20 Q1'21 Q2'21 Q3'21 Q4'21 Q1'22 Current
Current Ratio 2.28 2.26 1.87 3.32 3.29 3.14 2.70 2.84 2.835
Quick Ratio 2.28 2.26 1.87 3.32 3.29 3.14 2.70 2.84 2.835
Debt/Equity 0.00 0.00 0.31 0.77 0.76 0.77 0.80 0.79 0.786
Net Debt/Equity -1.05 -1.04 -0.75 -1.04 -1.01 -1.03 -1.05 -1.06 -1.061
Debt/Assets 0.00 0.00 0.16 0.30 0.30 0.29 0.28 0.29 0.288
Debt/EBITDA -0.00 -0.00 -0.44 -1.11 -2.34 -2.74 -3.04 -4.14 -4.144
Net Debt/EBITDA 2.20 1.77 1.04 1.50 3.09 3.66 3.99 5.60 5.595
Interest Coverage — — — -153.09 -9.25 -7.12 -6.68 -4.19 -4.189
Equity Multiplier 1.57 1.59 1.99 2.57 2.54 2.64 2.84 2.73 2.725
Cash Ratio snapshot only 2.527
Debt Service Coverage snapshot only -3.563
Cash to Debt snapshot only 2.350
FCF to Debt snapshot only 0.170
Defensive Interval snapshot only 590.9 days
Efficiency & Turnover
Metric Trend Q2'20 Q3'20 Q4'20 Q1'21 Q2'21 Q3'21 Q4'21 Q1'22 Current
Asset Turnover 0.12 0.26 0.34 0.32 0.45 0.48 0.47 0.43 0.425
Inventory Turnover — — — — — — — — —
Receivables Turnover 2.00 3.69 3.40 6.59 8.33 8.03 4.71 7.88 7.877
Payables Turnover 3.67 4.86 4.65 8.04 9.55 7.07 8.10 9.63 9.627
DSO 183 99 107 55 44 45 77 46 46.3 days
DIO 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 days
DPO 99 75 78 45 38 52 45 38 37.9 days
Cash Conversion Cycle 83 24 29 10 6 -6 32 8 8.4 days
Fixed Asset Turnover snapshot only 3.307
Cash Velocity snapshot only 0.594
Capital Intensity snapshot only 2.486
Growth (YoY)
Metric Trend Q2'20 Q3'20 Q4'20 Q1'21 Q2'21 Q3'21 Q4'21 Q1'22 Current
Revenue — — — — 4.3% 1.7% 82.1% 39.7% 39.74%
Net Income — — — — 8.7% 31.5% 44.1% 58.7% 58.70%
EPS — — — — 40.4% 34.6% 46.0% 60.4% 60.41%
FCF — — — — -1.4% 2.5% 3.0% 5.5% 5.46%
EBITDA — — — — 20.9% 43.8% 56.5% 71.2% 71.16%
Op. Income — — — — 9.0% 34.2% 48.5% 58.1% 58.11%
OCF Growth snapshot only 11.08%
Asset Growth snapshot only 12.22%
Equity Growth snapshot only 5.73%
Debt Growth snapshot only 7.33%
Shares Change snapshot only 4.33%
Growth Quality
Metric Trend Q2'20 Q3'20 Q4'20 Q1'21 Q2'21 Q3'21 Q4'21 Q1'22 Current
Revenue Stability — — — — — — — — —
Earnings Stability — — — — — — — — —
Margin Stability — — — — — — — — —
Rev. Growth Consistency 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.50 0.50 0.50 0.50 0.500
Earn. Growth Consistency 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.50 0.50 0.50 0.50 0.500
FCF Positive Streak 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Earnings Persistence — — — — — — — — —
Earnings Smoothness — — — — — — — — —
ROE Trend — — — — — — — — —
Gross Margin Trend — — — — — — — — —
FCF Margin Trend — — — — — — — — —
Sustainable Growth Rate — — — — — — — — —
Internal Growth Rate — — — — — — — — —
Cash Flow Quality
Metric Trend Q2'20 Q3'20 Q4'20 Q1'21 Q2'21 Q3'21 Q4'21 Q1'22 Current
OCF/Net Income -0.00 0.02 -0.00 -0.02 -0.07 -0.22 -0.24 -0.50 -0.500
FCF/OCF -24.52 3.07 -17.45 -2.54 -0.32 0.61 0.83 0.94 0.940
FCF/Net Income snapshot only -0.469
CapEx/Revenue 5.7% 5.8% 6.5% 5.3% 4.2% 3.1% 1.4% 0.8% 0.78%
CapEx/Depreciation snapshot only 0.257
Accruals Ratio -0.31 -0.37 -0.37 -0.29 -0.21 -0.21 -0.19 -0.17 -0.166
Sloan Accruals snapshot only -0.007
Cash Flow Adequacy snapshot only 16.616
Dividends & Buybacks
Metric Trend Q2'20 Q3'20 Q4'20 Q1'21 Q2'21 Q3'21 Q4'21 Q1'22 Current
Dividend Yield 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.00%
Dividend/Share $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00
Payout Ratio — — — — — — — — —
FCF Payout Ratio — — — — — 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.00%
Total Payout Ratio — — — — — — — — —
Div. Increase Streak — — — — — — — — —
Chowder Number — — — — — — — — —
Buyback Yield 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.00%
Net Buyback Yield 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% -0.2% -0.2% -0.2% -0.24%
Total Shareholder Return 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% -0.2% -0.2% -0.2% -0.24%
DuPont Factors
Metric Trend Q2'20 Q3'20 Q4'20 Q1'21 Q2'21 Q3'21 Q4'21 Q1'22 Current
Tax Burden (NI/EBT) 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.01 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.002
Interest Burden (EBT/EBIT) 0.99 1.23 1.47 1.41 2.45 1.65 1.18 1.27 1.275
EBIT Margin -2.51 -1.16 -0.73 -0.62 -0.17 -0.22 -0.28 -0.20 -0.203
Asset Turnover 0.12 0.26 0.34 0.32 0.45 0.48 0.47 0.43 0.425
Equity Multiplier 1.57 1.59 1.99 2.57 2.09 2.15 2.45 2.65 2.649
Per Share
Metric Trend Q2'20 Q3'20 Q4'20 Q1'21 Q2'21 Q3'21 Q4'21 Q1'22 Current
EPS (Diluted TTM) $-0.98 $-0.82 $-0.96 $-1.10 $-0.58 $-0.54 $-0.52 $-0.44 $-0.44
Book Value/Share $2.03 $1.37 $1.30 $1.51 $1.54 $1.54 $1.49 $1.53 $1.51
Tangible Book/Share $1.87 $1.26 $1.19 $1.40 $1.37 $1.37 $1.32 $1.37 $1.37
Revenue/Share $0.39 $0.58 $0.89 $1.25 $1.36 $1.46 $1.57 $1.68 $1.59
FCF/Share $-0.02 $-0.05 $-0.05 $-0.05 $-0.01 $0.07 $0.10 $0.20 $0.11
OCF/Share $0.00 $-0.02 $0.00 $0.02 $0.04 $0.12 $0.13 $0.22 $0.13
Cash/Share $2.13 $1.42 $1.38 $2.74 $2.72 $2.76 $2.75 $2.82 $2.80
EBITDA/Share $-0.97 $-0.81 $-0.93 $-1.05 $-0.50 $-0.43 $-0.39 $-0.29 $-0.29
Debt/Share $0.00 $0.00 $0.41 $1.17 $1.17 $1.18 $1.19 $1.20 $1.20
Net Debt/Share $-2.13 $-1.42 $-0.97 $-1.57 $-1.55 $-1.58 $-1.56 $-1.62 $-1.62
Academic Models
Metric Trend Q2'20 Q3'20 Q4'20 Q1'21 Q2'21 Q3'21 Q4'21 Q1'22 Current
Altman Z-Score — — — — — — — — 9.466
Altman Z-Prime snapshot only 17.455
Piotroski F-Score 3 2 3 3 6 5 5 5 5
Beneish M-Score — — — — -2.66 -2.76 -2.60 -2.67 -2.668
Ohlson O-Score snapshot only -6.809
ROIC (Greenblatt) snapshot only -13.33%
Net-Net WC snapshot only $0.53
Credit
Metric Trend Q2'20 Q3'20 Q4'20 Q1'21 Q2'21 Q3'21 Q4'21 Q1'22 Current
Credit Rating snapshot only BBB+
Credit Score 88.59 88.90 67.34 58.61 57.89 59.69 60.03 61.62 61.621
Credit Grade snapshot only 8
Credit Trend snapshot only 3.015
Implied Spread (bps) snapshot only 225.000
Industry Credit Rank snapshot only 50
Sector Credit Rank snapshot only 42

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