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Churchill Downs Incorporated (CHDN)

NASDAQ / Consumer Cyclical / Gambling, Resorts & Casinos

Share price

82.15 USD Market dataClose of Oct 15, 2026

Market capitalisation

5.73B USD Market dataClose of Oct 15, 2026
Market data
Oct 15, 2026
Filed accounts
FY2025, filed Feb 25, 2026
Ratios computed
Oct 15, 2026
Filed years
16, FY2009 to FY2025
Four kinds of sourceSEC filingCompany statementMarket dataComputedWhat each means
SEC filingFiled with the SEC
Read from a statement the company filed with the SEC, with the form, fiscal year, filing date and accession beside it.
Company statementCompany statement
What the company says about itself in a filing: an 8-K item, the auditor, its own segment names.
Market dataMarket data
Prices, market value and what analysts publish, with the date they are as of.
ComputedComputed by ValueScreener
Worked out by us from the other three, with the inputs and the formula one press away. A score is a research output, not a rating or a recommendation.
Reading

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Overview

What the business is, what it costs, and how it reads on four questions.

Market dataSEC filingComputed

Four questions, at a glance

Quality

Return on invested capital, after tax

8.2% Computed

From the FY2025 filing

Read quality

Valuation

Price to earnings

15.44x Computed

FY2025 accounts, priced at the latest close

Read valuation

Cash generation

Free cash flow yield

11.9% Computed

FY2025 accounts, priced at the latest close

Read cash generation

Revenue and net income, as filed

FY2016 Revenue: 822.4M USDFY2016 Net income: 108.1M USDFY2017 Revenue: 882.6M USDFY2017 Net income: 140.5M USDFY2018 Revenue: 1.01B USDFY2018 Net income: 352.8M USDFY2019 Revenue: 1.33B USDFY2019 Net income: 137.5M USDFY2020 Revenue: 1.05B USDFY2020 Net income: -81.9M USDFY2021 Revenue: 1.60B USDFY2021 Net income: 249.1M USDFY2022 Revenue: 1.81B USDFY2022 Net income: 439.4M USDFY2023 Revenue: 2.46B USDFY2023 Net income: 417.3M USDFY2024 Revenue: 2.73B USDFY2024 Net income: 426.8M USDFY2025 Revenue: 2.93B USDFY2025 Net income: 383.0M USD
Revenue Net income10 filed fiscal years, from the annual reports; the table in Filings names each document.
Named tests met
3 of 30 Which tests
The business, and the score behind its five axes

The reading, in brief

Is it cheap

Price to earnings is 15.44x at the close of 2026-10-15 on FY2025 figures; the lines are 15.00x (Graham's defensive ceiling) and, by market convention, 10.00x, 25.00x and 40.00x, and this sits between 15.00x and 25.00x.

Today, against the Consumer Cyclical sector (302 companies), 15.44x sits at the 33rd percentile; the middle half of that group runs from 12.87x to 31.26x.

Is it good

Return on invested capital was 8.2% in FY2025, in the band labelled "Around the cost of capital" (8.0% to 12.0%), on lines anchored on Damodaran's cost-of-capital data.

Today, against the Consumer Cyclical sector (222 companies), 8.2% sits at the 49th percentile; the middle half of that group runs from 3.6% to 14.8%.

Is it safe

Interest coverage was 2.30x in FY2025, in the band labelled "Speculative grade" (1.50x to 3.00x), on lines anchored on Damodaran's interest-coverage table.

Year by year against peers
Whether Churchill Downs Incorporated's return on invested capital stayed above the median of the Consumer Cyclical sector, year by year. (FY2024 to FY2025, 2 fiscal years of Churchill Downs Incorporated with a comparable figure)
The direction
Which way Churchill Downs Incorporated's return on equity has moved, and how steadily. (FY2016 to FY2025, 10 filed years of Churchill Downs Incorporated)
What could explain it
What in Churchill Downs Incorporated's filed statements could explain the movements. (5 readings drawn from the statement lines Churchill Downs Incorporated filed)
What to check next
What to check next on Churchill Downs Incorporated, and where in its filings. (4 questions for Churchill Downs Incorporated)
In one paragraph
One paragraph on Churchill Downs Incorporated's returns, cash, balance sheet and price. (15 of sixteen figures read for Churchill Downs Incorporated)

These are CHDN’s filed figures. The research desk says what they mean, against peers and its own years, with what to check next.

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What changed

The newest filing, what it moved, and when the next one is due.

SEC filingCompany statement

The newest accounts on file are the FY2025 annual report: 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, accession 0000020212-26-000025.

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Quality

The returns the business earns on its capital, and the margins behind them.

SEC filingComputed

Churchill Downs Incorporated: returns on capital and margins, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Return on invested capital, after tax8.2% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0000020212-26-000025
Return on equity37.9% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0000020212-26-000025
Return on capital employed, pre-tax10.1% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0000020212-26-000025
Return on assets5.1% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0000020212-26-000025
Gross margin
Why n/a

Our archived statements for this filer carry no gross profit line, so there is nothing to compute a gross margin from and trace back to source. That may be because the filer presents no cost of revenue, or because we have not captured the concept. We do not guess which.

n/a ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0000020212-26-000025
Operating margin23.4% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0000020212-26-000025
Net margin13.1% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0000020212-26-000025
CHDN 13.1%
MTN 5.2%BYD 45.0%RRR 9.3%CZR -4.4%MCRI 18.6%
-4.4%45.0%
Net margin: CHDN against the 5 companies named under Valuation context, each as filed for its own latest year. Placement only: no average is drawn.

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Financial strength

What it owes against what it owns, and whether it can meet what falls due.

SEC filingComputedCompany statement

Churchill Downs Incorporated: leverage, liquidity and distress, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Debt to equity5.15 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0000020212-26-000025
Current ratio0.60 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0000020212-26-000025
Quick ratio0.59 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0000020212-26-000025
Interest coverage2.30x ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0000020212-26-000025
Altman Z-score1.39 ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0000020212-26-000025
Net debt5.00B ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0000020212-26-000025
Total assets 7.49BTotal liabilities 6.43BShareholders' equity 1.01BOwnsOwes, and equity
Total assets Total liabilities Shareholders’ equity
The balance sheet, line by line

Financial health

What Churchill Downs Incorporated owned and owed at the end of fiscal 2025, from the balance sheet it filed (10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0000020212-26-000025).

Churchill Downs Incorporated: balance sheet position
Total assets7.49B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026
Total liabilities6.43B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026
Shareholders' equity1.01B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026
Cash201.0M FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026
Total debt5.20B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026
Net debt5.00B
Current ratio0.60
Debt to equity5.15

Read from the filed balance sheet for each year, with the income statement of the same year supplying operating profit where a ratio needs it. Nothing here is a view on whether this company is sound.

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Valuation context

What the market charges for it, against its own record and companies like it.

Market dataSEC filingComputed

Churchill Downs Incorporated: what the market charges, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Price to earnings15.44x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0000020212-26-000025
P/E on trailing twelve months13.83x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · Trailing four quarters, each as known on the day; the quarterly filings are listed under Filings
Price to book5.84x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0000020212-26-000025
Price to sales2.02x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0000020212-26-000025
Enterprise value to EBIT15.93x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0000020212-26-000025
Enterprise value to EBITDA11.88x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0000020212-26-000025
Price to earnings over growth
Why n/a

We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

n/a ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0000020212-26-000025
Diluted earnings per share5.29 USD FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0000020212-26-000025
Graham number41.03 USD ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0000020212-26-000025

We publish no fair value or price target of our own. Value CHDN on your own assumptions in the DCF workbench, starting from the filed figures.

Its own record, and companies like it

Valuation

What the market charges for Churchill Downs Incorporated today, and the multiples it has carried. No value of ours: the figures are the filings’ and the market’s.

Churchill Downs Incorporated: valuation
Share price82.15 USD
Market capitalisation5.73B USD
Enterprise value to EBITDA11.88x
Graham number41.03 USD
Diluted earnings per share, FY20255.29 USD

Price to earnings on trailing twelve months, a different basis from the fiscal-year P/E above, since Oct 3, 2016: low 8.41x, median 24.74x, high 61.20x, latest 13.83x. 2,270 trading days with a meaningful ratio, 251 more on a loss and left out. Each close over the trailing twelve months of earnings as known that day: a quarter counts from the day it was filed.

Companies like Churchill Downs Incorporated

  1. Vail Resorts, Inc. (MTN)Market cap 5.45B USD
  2. Boyd Gaming Corporation (BYD)Market cap 5.16B USD
  3. Red Rock Resorts, Inc. (RRR)Market cap 2.98B USD
  4. Caesars Entertainment, Inc. (CZR)Market cap 5.96B USD
  5. Monarch Casino & Resort, Inc. (MCRI)Market cap 2.07B USD

Same industry (Gambling, Resorts & Casinos) and size band (Mid, 2B to 10B), nearest in market value, net margin and current ratio. Each of those counts equally, by how many of the companies considered sit between the two on it. Closest first: the order is likeness and nothing else.

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Cash generation

Whether profit arrives as cash, and what is paid back to shareholders.

SEC filingComputed

Churchill Downs Incorporated: cash generation and what is paid out, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Free cash flow yield11.9% ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0000020212-26-000025
Free cash flow699.6M USD ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0000020212-26-000025
Free cash flow margin23.9% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0000020212-26-000025
Dividend yield0.5% ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0000020212-26-000025
Payout ratio8.0% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0000020212-26-000025
FY2016 Free cash flow: 200.5M USDFY2016 Net income: 108.1M USDFY2017 Free cash flow: 181.8M USDFY2017 Net income: 140.5M USDFY2018 Free cash flow: 168.2M USDFY2018 Net income: 352.8M USDFY2019 Free cash flow: 206.7M USDFY2019 Net income: 137.5M USDFY2020 Free cash flow: -69.3M USDFY2020 Net income: -81.9M USDFY2021 Free cash flow: 420.0M USDFY2021 Net income: 249.1M USDFY2022 Free cash flow: 460.6M USDFY2022 Net income: 439.4M USDFY2023 Free cash flow: 527.6M USDFY2023 Net income: 417.3M USDFY2024 Free cash flow: 688.1M USDFY2024 Net income: 426.8M USDFY2025 Free cash flow: 699.6M USDFY2025 Net income: 383.0M USD
Free cash flow Net incomeProfit that arrives as cash stands level with net income; a gap year after year is worth reading about.

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Filings

Every figure, the year it is for and the document it was read from.

SEC filingMarket data

The filed figures

Computed from the accounts this company filed with the SEC and, in a ratio with a price in it, the last close, dated on this page. Every filed figure below carries the fiscal year and the filing date its accounts were read from, and every blank carries the reason it is blank. Nothing here is a view on this company.

Churchill Downs Incorporated: the eight ratios, with the fiscal year and filing date behind each.
FigureValueYearAs of
15.44xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
5.84xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
15.93xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
11.9%FY2025Oct 15, 2026
8.2%FY2025Feb 25, 2026
0.5%FY2025Oct 15, 2026
5.15FY2025Feb 25, 2026
0.60FY2025Feb 25, 2026
2.02xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
n/aFY2025Oct 15, 2026
n/a This figure compares a year against the one before it, and we hold one filed year for this company.
1.39FY2025Oct 15, 2026
-2.68FY2025Feb 25, 2026
6/9FY2025Feb 25, 2026

The figures are computed from the accounts for fiscal 2025, the newest full year on file. 16 filed fiscal years on record, FY2009 to FY2025, from SEC EDGAR. Prices as of Oct 15, 2026. Ratios recomputed Oct 15, 2026. Two facts, because a recompute is not a fresh quote.

The year and the filing date name the statement each figure’s accounts are read from, and they stand even where the figure itself could not be computed: the line beneath a blank says what that statement did not carry. A figure’s name opens its formula and the filings behind it; a statement that names no SEC filing has no filing date, and reads n/a.

Ten years of filed figures, year by year

Ten years of filed figures

10 filed fiscal years, FY2016 to FY2025, read from the annual reports Churchill Downs Incorporated filed with the SEC. Each year names its filing. Amounts in USD, as filed.

Churchill Downs Incorporated: revenue, earnings, free cash flow and returns, by fiscal year, with the filing each year was read from
YearRevenueOperating incomeNet incomeEPS, dilutedFree cash flowOperating marginReturn on equityFiling
FY20252.93B683.8M383.0M5.29699.6M23.4%37.9%10-K, Feb 25, 20260000020212-26-000025
FY20242.73B709.0M426.8M5.68688.1M25.9%39.4%10-K, Feb 20, 20250000020212-25-000051
FY20232.46B564.0M417.3M5.49527.6M22.9%46.7%10-K, Feb 21, 20240000020212-24-000055
FY20221.81B321.8M439.4M5.71460.6M17.8%79.7%10-K, Feb 22, 20230000020212-23-000059
FY20211.60B284.4M249.1M3.18420.0M17.8%81.2%10-K, Feb 23, 20220000020212-22-000056
FY20201.05B60.2M-81.9M-1.04-69.3M5.7%-22.3%10-K, Feb 24, 20210000020212-21-000019
FY20191.33B215.7M137.5M1.69206.7M16.2%27.1%10-K, Feb 26, 20200000020212-20-000019
FY20181.01B188.8M352.8M4.24168.2M18.7%74.5%10-K, Feb 27, 20190000020212-19-000012
FY2017882.6M145.7M140.5M1.46181.8M16.5%21.9%10-K, Feb 28, 20180000020212-18-000010
FY2016822.4M172.5M108.1M1.07200.5M21.0%15.8%10-K, Feb 28, 20170000020212-17-000008
  • Revenue, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: 15.1%
  • Earnings, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: 15.1%
  • Earnings per share, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: 19.4%
  • Free cash flow, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: 14.9%

Every figure in this section is a line of a filed annual statement or a ratio of two of them. Nothing here is estimated or smoothed. Earnings per share filed before a share split are put on today's share count, and say so. Nothing here is a verdict on the company.

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Risks and guardrails

The accounting screens, the published tests, and the lines you can set to be told.

ComputedCompany statement

Churchill Downs Incorporated: accounting screens and published tests, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Beneish M-score-2.68 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0000020212-26-000025
Piotroski F-score6/9 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0000020212-26-000025
Named tests met3 of 30 Computed
Beta0.59 ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026

The named tests

Of 30 tests value investors published: 3 met, 27 not met, 0 we could not complete. Counts, never a score: a single figure would have to decide that meeting one investor’s criteria and meeting another’s are worth the same.

Which tests, by name(all 30)
Meets
ROIC at or above WACC; Owner earnings yield; Cash-covered dividend
Does not
Defensive investor (Benjamin Graham); Deep value; Large cap, low P/E; Earnings yield and ROIC (Joel Greenblatt); High F-score, low P/B (Joseph Piotroski); Three forensic scores; Low PEG, low debt (Peter Lynch); High returns and growth; Gross margin, turnover (Robert Novy-Marx); EV/EBITDA and coverage; High yield, low payout; Dividends and buybacks; Low beta, profitable; Near the 52-week low; Z-score and coverage (Edward Altman); Two thirds of NCAV (Benjamin Graham); P/E times P/B (Benjamin Graham); High returns, low debt; High return on tangibles; Low P/S, rising earnings (James O'Shaughnessy); Book or below, low debt (Walter Schloss); Tangible book or below; Cash-flow yield and ROIC; Clean books, high ROIC; Cheapest quarter on P/E (David Dreman); Cheapest quarter on P/B (David Dreman); Low P/E, growth, yield (John Neff)
Figures we could not read(4)
  • PEG Ratio: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Eps Growth 5Y: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Gross Margin: Our archived statements for this filer carry no gross profit line, so there is nothing to compute a gross margin from and trace back to source. That may be because the filer presents no cost of revenue, or because we have not captured the concept. We do not guess which.
  • Price Tangible Book: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

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Declared positions

Whether anybody here owns this company.

Positions declared by Javier Sanz Alvarez: no holding in any company shown here, as of October 3, 2026.

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