Share count
167Mpeak FY2026
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GTLB, GitLab Inc.
GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, where software teams and their Artificial Intelligence agents stay in flow to ship software faster.
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Fragmented toolchains and tool-specific AI agents create bottlenecks that slow software delivery.
The business
What it sells, where the money comes from, the kind of company it is.
Revenue · FY2026
$955M
+25.8% YoY · 44% 5-yr CAGR
Vital signs · TTM, with 5-yr average
Revenue $1.0B 5-yr avg $594M
Revenue $264M +23.1% vs yr-ago qtr
Operating margin −6.0% yr-ago −16.1%
Net income ($6M) yr-ago ($36M)
Net margin −2.1% yr-ago −16.9%
The business in brief
read the 10-K →What this business is and what moves its needle, from its own SEC filings.
- Situation
- Unprofitable. No sustained operating profit across the record; an earnings multiple has nothing to rest on. What the record does show is revenue, the gross-margin trajectory, and the burn against the cash on hand. Net current asset value. Current assets alone exceed every liability combined, and the surplus is most of the balance sheet: the shape Graham called a net-net.
- What moves the needle
- Operating margin has run around −50% through the cycle on a 88% gross margin, the operating line in the red even at its best — so the lever is whether the spending below the gross line can come down enough to clear a profit: revenue growth against the cost curve, and the cash runway until it does. Stock-based pay runs about 28% of sales, a real and recurring claim on owners that the GAAP margin understates. Read this kind of business on retention and the cost of growth. On its own account, the filing leans hardest on customer concentration, set against the numbers in what the filing emphasizes, below.
- Is it a good business?
- Return on capital has rarely cleared the cost of capital (median −28%, above 15% in 0 of 4 years). Owner earnings, the cash-based check, have been thin too. This is price-taker territory, where the balance sheet and the cycle matter more than any multiple; the rest is in the 10-K.
Every line is arithmetic on the company's filings, shown in full in the sections below.
Where the money comes from
read the 10-K →18% of revenue comes from outside the United States.
Revenue by geography, FY2026
- United States82%$787M
- Europe15%$146M
- Asia Pacific2%$22M
From the segment footnote of the company's own 10-K. Shares are of total revenue; the profit bar shows each segment's share of segment operating profit, before unallocated corporate costs.
The record
Ten years of arithmetic, read across the cycle.
The record, 2020–2026
realized figures from each filing · older years to the left| 2020’20 | 2021’21 | 2022’22 | 2023’23 | 2024’24 | 2025’25 | 2026’26 | TTMTTMApr 2026 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Income statement | ||||||||
| $81M | $152M | $253M | $424M | $580M | $759M | $955M | $1.0B | RevenueRevenue |
| 88% | 88% | 88% | 88% | 90% | 89% | 87% | 87% | Gross marginGross mgn |
| 51% | 57% | 25% | 28% | 26% | 25% | 20% | 20% | SG&A / revenueSG&A/rev |
| 73% | 70% | 38% | 37% | 35% | 32% | 29% | 28% | R&D / revenueR&D/rev |
| ($128M) | ($214M) | ($129M) | ($211M) | ($187M) | ($143M) | ($70M) | ($52M) | Operating incomeOp. inc. |
| −158.0% | −140.6% | −51.0% | −49.8% | −32.3% | −18.8% | −7.4% | −5.1% | Operating marginOp. mgn |
| ($131M) | ($192M) | ($155M) | ($173M) | ($426M) | ($6M) | ($56M) | ($25M) | Net incomeNet inc. |
| Cash flow & returns | ||||||||
| ($60M) | ($74M) | ($50M) | ($77M) | $35M | ($64M) | $233M | $276M | Operating cash flowOp. cash |
| $0 | $0 | $543K | $3M | $4M | $3M | $3M | $4M | DepreciationDeprec. |
| $30M | $7M | $75M | ($30M) | $293M | ($246M) | $71M | $88M | Working capital & otherWC & other |
| $0 | $0 | $4M | $6M | $2M | $4M | $11M | $12M | CapexCapex |
| 0.0% | 0.0% | 1.4% | 1.4% | 0.3% | 0.5% | 1.1% | 1.2% | Capex / revenueCapex/rev |
| ($60M) | ($74M) | ($50M) | ($81M) | $33M | ($67M) | $230M | $272M | Owner earningsOwner earn. |
| −74.1% | −48.4% | −19.9% | −19.0% | 5.8% | −8.8% | 24.0% | 27.0% | Owner earnings marginOE mgn |
| ($60M) | ($74M) | ($53M) | ($83M) | $33M | ($68M) | $222M | $263M | Free cash flowFCF |
| −74.1% | −48.4% | −21.1% | −19.7% | 5.8% | −8.9% | 23.2% | 26.2% | Free cash flow marginFCF mgn |
| $0 | $0 | $323K | $0 | $0 | $20M | $0 | $0 | AcquisitionsAcquis. |
| $0 | $820K | $590K | $0 | $0 | — | — | — | BuybacksBuybacks |
| — | — | — | -35% | -54% | -21% | -7% | -6% | ROICROIC |
| — | — | -20% | -22% | -76% | -1% | -6% | -3% | Return on equityROE |
| — | — | −20% | −22% | −76% | −1% | −6% | −3% | Retained to equityRetained/eq |
| Balance sheet | ||||||||
| $343M | $283M | $935M | $295M | $288M | $228M | $230M | $339M | Cash & investmentsCash+inv |
| — | $40M | $77M | $130M | $167M | $265M | $304M | $200M | ReceivablesReceiv. |
| — | $3M | $5M | $5M | $2M | $8M | $9M | $9M | Accounts payablePayables |
| — | $37M | $72M | $125M | $165M | $257M | $295M | $191M | Operating working capitalOper. WC |
| — | $348M | $1.1B | $1.1B | $1.3B | $1.3B | $1.7B | $1.6B | Current assetsCur. assets |
| — | $127M | $242M | $306M | $677M | $545M | $652M | $643M | Current liabilitiesCur. liab. |
| — | 2.7× | 4.4× | 3.6× | 1.9× | 2.5× | 2.5× | 2.5× | Current ratioCurr. ratio |
| — | $0 | $8M | $8M | $8M | $16M | $17M | $18M | GoodwillGoodwill |
| — | $363M | $1.1B | $1.2B | $1.3B | $1.4B | $1.7B | $1.7B | Total assetsAssets |
| ($343M) | ($283M) | ($935M) | ($295M) | ($288M) | ($228M) | ($230M) | ($339M) | Net debt / (cash)Net debt |
| ($135M) | ($231M) | $775M | $771M | $560M | $776M | $991M | $985M | Shareholders’ equityEquity |
| 50.3% | 73.5% | 11.9% | 28.9% | 28.1% | 24.5% | 22.5% | 20.8% | Stock comp / revenueSBC/rev |
| Per share | ||||||||
| 47.3M | 50.3M | 79.8M | 148M | 154M | 161M | 167M | 170M | Shares out (diluted)Shares |
| $1.72 | $3.02 | $3.17 | $2.86 | $3.76 | $4.73 | $5.73 | $5.91 | Revenue / shareRev/sh |
| $-2.76 | $-3.82 | $-1.95 | $-1.17 | $-2.76 | $-0.04 | $-0.34 | $-0.15 | EPS (diluted)EPS |
| $-1.27 | $-1.46 | $-0.63 | $-0.54 | $0.22 | $-0.42 | $1.38 | $1.60 | Owner earnings / shareOE/sh |
| $-1.27 | $-1.46 | $-0.67 | $-0.56 | $0.22 | $-0.42 | $1.33 | $1.55 | Free cash flow / shareFCF/sh |
| $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.04 | $0.04 | $0.01 | $0.02 | $0.06 | $0.07 | Cap. spending / shareCapex/sh |
| $-2.85 | $-4.59 | $9.72 | $5.20 | $3.63 | $4.83 | $5.94 | $5.80 | Book value / shareBVPS |
The diluted share count moved ×1.58 into 2022 — shares issued, not a split the totals corroborate — and the per-share figures carry the counts as filed.
The diluted share count moved ×1.86 into 2023 — shares issued, not a split the totals corroborate — and the per-share figures carry the counts as filed.
The record, charted
FY2020–2026Each measure over its full record; the current point and the worst year marked.
ROIC
−7%low FY2024
Gross margin
87%low FY2026
Owner earnings vs. net income
Owner earningsNet incomeThe accountant's number, and the cash an owner can take; the gap is the tell.
$230Mowner earningsvs.($56M)net incomelow FY2023
Net income is the accountant's number; owner earnings is the cash an owner could take out. The walk between them, off the cash-flow statement, and whether the gap is widening or holding.
In fiscal 2026 the business earned $230M of owner earnings, the operating cash left after the $3M it takes just to hold its position. It put $8M more into growth; free cash flow, after that spending, was $222M.
| FY2026 | FY2025 | FY2024 | FY2023 | FY2022 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reported net income | ($56M) | ($6M) | ($426M) | ($173M) | ($155M) |
| Depreciation & amortizationnon-cash charge added back | +$3M | +$3M | +$4M | +$3M | +$543K |
| Stock-based compensationreal costnon-cash, but a real cost | +$215M | +$186M | +$163M | +$123M | +$30M |
| Working capital & othertiming of cash in and out, other non-cash items | +$71M | −$246M | +$293M | −$30M | +$75M |
| Cash from operations | $233M | ($64M) | $35M | ($77M) | ($50M) |
| Maintenance capital expenditurethe spending needed just to hold position and volume | −$3M | −$3M | −$2M | −$3M | −$543K |
| Owner earnings | $230M | ($67M) | $33M | ($81M) | ($50M) |
| Growth capital expenditurediscretionary; spent to get bigger, not to stand still | −$8M | −$905K | — | −$3M | −$3M |
| Free cash flow | $222M | ($68M) | $33M | ($83M) | ($53M) |
| Owner-earnings marginowner earnings ÷ revenue | 24% | -9% | 6% | -19% | -20% |
Owner earnings is the cash an owner could pull out without starving the business: operating cash less the maintenance capital it must spend to hold its position (here about $3M, roughly its depreciation, the rate its assets wear out). The other $8M of its capital spending is growth it chose, not upkeep it owed; charged only with the maintenance it must do, the business earns well more than the year's free cash flow shows. The cash-flow statement also adds stock comp back as non-cash, but it is a real cost paid in shares; counted as the expense it is (less $215M), owner earnings is nearer $15M.
Maintenance capex is estimated as depreciation where a growing business invests above it; free cash flow is the figure the scorecard's free-cash margin reads.
Quality & stewardship
Returns, the balance sheet, capital allocation, and pay.
Owner’s Scorecard
FY2026 10-K · source on SEC EDGAR →
Will it survive?
- No meaningful interest burdenLittle or no interest expense reported
What this means
Little or no interest expense reported, the business isn't leaning on lenders to operate.
- Net cash, debt-freeCash $230M + ST investments $50M − debt $0
What this means
Cash and short-term investments exceed every dollar of debt by $280M, on net the company owes nothing, and can act from strength when others can't. Net debt is the leverage figure that matters: the cash is already set against the debt. Strategic or illiquid investments aren't counted here.
- Long (60+ days)DSO 116 + DIO 0 − DPO 28 days
What this means
Days cash is tied up between paying suppliers and collecting from customers. Lower is better; a long cycle means growth itself eats cash. (Little or no inventory, a services / asset-light model, so the inventory leg is ~0.)
Is it a good business?
- Not enough dataIndustry peers: median -10%
What this means
The filing data didn't include the inputs for this check.
- Positive this year, negative across the cyclelatest $230M = operating cash $233M − maintenance capex $3M (positive this year), after an earlier loss stretch (7-yr median -19%)Industry peers: median 11%
What this means
What an owner could take out without starving the business: operating cash less the maintenance capital it must spend to hold its position — Buffett's owner earnings. That's 24% of revenue this year, a -19% median across 7 years. Treating stock comp as the real expense it is (less $215M of SBC) leaves $15M.
- Loss, but cash-generativeNet income ($56M) · cash from operations $233M
What this means
The company reported a net loss, so a conversion ratio isn't meaningful. What matters then is whether operations still threw off cash, here, they did.
How is the cash used?
- Reinvests most of itDividends + buybacks $0 ÷ Owner Earnings $230M
What this means
Of $230M Owner Earnings, $0 (0%) went back to shareholders, $0 dividends, $0 buybacks. Returning most of it is the mark of a mature business with little left to reinvest at a high return; reinvesting most could mean a long runway, or empire-building. The split doesn't say which; the return earned on it (see ROIC) does.
- Investing or harvesting? 3.30×ExpandingCapex $11M ÷ depreciation $3M
What this means
Descriptive, not a grade. Above ~1× means investing faster than assets wear out (growth, or, sustained for years, today's earnings carrying less depreciation than tomorrow's will). Below means spending less than it's wearing out (efficiency, or a melting asset base). The ratio won't tell you which; the filings will.
Graham’s defensive tests · 1 of 4 met
Graham’s numerical criteria for the defensive investor (The Intelligent Investor, ch. 14), run on the filings. A floor of safety, not a buy signal; many fine modern businesses fail his strictest liquidity rules by design.
- Adequate size MissRevenue ≥ $2B · $955M
What this means
Big enough to weather a storm. Graham's 1972 floor was ~$100M of sales (≈ $700M today); we use a $2B revenue line as a conservative modern stand-in.
- Strong liquidity PassCurrent ratio ≥ 2× · 2.54×
What this means
Current assets at least twice current liabilities, near-term bills covered without touching the business. Strict by design: many cash-rich modern firms run leaner and miss it, holding their cushion in longer-dated securities.
- Earnings stability MissA profit every year (7-yr record) · 7 loss years
What this means
Graham wanted earnings in each of the past ten years, the stability a defensive owner leans on.
- Dividend record MissUninterrupted dividends · none paid
What this means
An unbroken dividend was Graham's mark of durability. He wanted twenty years; the filings show about ten, and a single suspension breaks the streak. Non-payers, many fine modern compounders, fall outside his defensive net by design.
- Earnings growth —Earnings +33% over the record · —
What this means
Earnings were negative early in the record, a growth rate isn't meaningful.
- Moderate price —P/E ≤ 15 and P/E × P/B ≤ 22.5 · decided by the price
What this means
Graham's valuation gate, the wall he kept between a sound business and a sound investment. Three-year average earnings are $-0.96/share (latest year $-0.33), the averaged base the calculator's gate runs on, and book value is $5.83/share. Enter a price in “What the price implies” just below for the P/E, P/B, and whether it clears. But this is the rule Buffett outgrew: there's no hard P/E law, and a wonderful business can deserve a far richer multiple if the thesis holds, treat it as the bargain-hunter's floor, not a verdict on the price.
Durability & moat, 2020–2026
Whether the record’s returns held, and what the capital reinvested earned.
- Profitable years 0 of 7
What this means
Lost money in 7 year(s), look at what happened there before trusting the average.
- Operating margin −117% → −19% (3-yr avg ends)
What this means
Through the cycle the operating margin widened — about −117% early to −19% lately, median −50% — pricing power intact or improving.
- Worst year 2020 · −158.0% op. margin
What this means
Operations went underwater in 2020, understand why before trusting the good years.
Does AI threaten the moat?
Elevated contestabilityThe product is software or information, the very thing capable AI now produces more cheaply, so the moat is more contestable than the record alone implies.
In its own filing A competitive risk, new this year
Its FY2026 10-K names artificial intelligence as a competitive threat, in language that was not in the prior year's filing.
“Competition in these markets may intensify further as advances in AI enable rapid, low-cost development of software applications.”
AI has collapsed the cost of building a capable substitute for the very thing this business sells. When a credible alternative can be assembled for a fraction of the incumbent's price, it is pricing power that erodes first, not revenue tomorrow. The live question is whether the moat survives that, not whether it held in the past. Whether that question is answerable at all is yours to decide, against your own circle of competence.
Read from the filing's own risk factors, paired with the industry's structure under its SIC code; the durability is read above, the price below.
All figures as filed; the source filing is linked above.
Current Position
as of the latest quarter, Apr 30, 2026Can the business pay what it owes this year, off the freshest balance sheet: the quality of the assets, the debt actually coming due, and what a low ratio means here.
Current assets$1.6B
- Cash & short-term investments$339M
- Receivables$200M
- Other current assets$1.1B
Current liabilities$643M
- Accounts payable$9M
- Other current liabilities$634M
Current ratio2.55×all current assets ÷ what's due · Graham looked for 2×
Quick ratio2.55×stricter: inventory excluded
Cash ratio0.53×strictest: cash alone against what's due
Working capital$996Mthe cushion left after near-term bills
Revenue, latest quarter vs. a year ago+23.1%the freshest read on whether the business is still growing
Current ratio, recent quarters2.0× → 2.5×
Deeper floors
Tangible book value$960Mequity stripped of goodwill & intangibles
Net current asset value$965MGraham's net-net: current assets less all liabilities
Debt incl. operating leases$392K$392K of it operating leases
Deferred revenue$557Mcustomer cash collected before delivery; operating float
From the company's latest filing.
Management, ownership & pay
read the proxy →From the proxy: how much of the business the people running it own, and how they are paid, beside what the business earned for its owners in the same years.
| Fiscal year | Chief executive | Pay, as filed | “Actually paid” | Owner earnings |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Sytse Sijbrandij, | $27.3M | $146.9M | ($50M) |
| 2023 | Sytse Sijbrandij, | $3,600 | −$57.4M | ($81M) |
| 2024 | Sytse Sijbrandij, | $3,600 | $97.4M | $33M |
| 2025 | Sytse Sijbrandij, | $17.0M | −$128.6M | ($67M) |
| 2025 | William Staples | $39.1M | $46.6M | ($67M) |
| 2026 | William Staples | $1.0M | −$29.0M | $230M |
Both pay figures are the company’s own, from the pay-versus-performance table its proxy statement files. “As filed” is the Summary Compensation Table total: salary, bonus, and equity awards at their value on the day of grant. “Actually paid” is the SEC’s prescribed recalculation, which re-marks those equity awards to what they became as they vested; it can swing far above or below the filed figure in either direction, and negative years occur. Owner earnings are the whole business's, from the record above, for the same fiscal years.
- Insider ownership<1%
The stake all directors and executive officers hold together, per the 2026 proxy: skin in the game, the first thing Munger reads.
- Stock-based compensation$215M
The slice of the business handed to employees in shares this year, 23% of revenue. Buffett's oldest accounting fight: this is compensation, compensation is an expense, real whether or not the headline earnings admit it. One trap: the cash-flow statement adds SBC back, so the operating cash, and the owner earnings drawn from it, are flattered by exactly this amount; counted as the cost it is, what an owner keeps is lower.
What an owner would ask, FY2026
read the 10-K →- Which reported numbers are a judgment call?Management names Revenue recognition as critical estimates
each rests partly on management's judgment; the filing's note sets out the assumptionsverify →
The questions the record and the charts do not answer on their own; each carries the figure and the place to look.
Peers, Software
The same industry, side by side on owner economics. Each figure is a through-cycle median, so a peak or trough year can’t distort it; the group median at the foot is the line to read each against.
| Company | Revenue | Gross margin | Op. margin | ROIC | Owner earn. margin |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ALRMAlarm.com | $1.0B | 63% | 8.7% | 16% | 13% |
| SSentinelOne | $1.0B | 66% | -95.4% | -20% | -47% |
| TENBTenable | $999M | 81% | -9.1% | -10% | 15% |
| PRGSProgress Software | $978M | 83% | 16.2% | 9% | 29% |
| TTANServiceTitan Inc. | $961M | 63% | -29.8% | -12% | -3% |
| GTLBGitLab Inc. | $955M | 88% | -49.8% | -28% | -19% |
| APPFAppFolio | $951M | 61% | 2.8% | 5% | 11% |
| WKWorkiva | $885M | 75% | -15.1% | -18% | 9% |
| Group median | — | 70% | -12.1% | -11% | 10% |
The price
What a price has to assume.
What the price implies
reverse-DCFType today's close and see the owner-earnings growth you'd have to believe to justify it, beside what GitLab Inc. has delivered.
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The assumptions
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Enter a price above to run it.
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Implied by the price—
Owner-earnings growth, delivered—
Owner-earnings growth, delivered—
Owner-earnings yield—
What a growth belief costs, in multiples
The growth each return requires, at your price
P/E (3-yr earnings ’24–’26)—
P/B—
Graham’s price gate—
Graham capped the multiple at 15×; Buffett and Munger let that rule go: a wonderful business can deserve 50× if the thesis holds. The gate marks the bargain-hunter's floor.
Against a high-grade bond: Graham’s yardstick bond yield%
Prefilled with the 10-year Treasury (4.55%, as of Jul 15, 2026). Edit it for today’s exact figure, or a AAA corporate yield.
Graham measured a stock against the bond you could own instead, the heart of his margin of safety. Enter a price above to weigh the owner-earnings yield against this bond.
Owner-earnings yield—
High-grade bond yield—
Margin over the bond—
Free cash flow $263M on 170M shares outstanding (a weighted basic average, the only count this filer tags); net cash $339M. The base is the latest year by default; Normalize values it on the through-cycle median owner-earnings margin (to avoid paying on a peak year). Net of stock comp treats option pay as the expense it is. Capex ($12M) runs well above depreciation ($4M), so this is a build-out; Steady-state swaps total capex for maintenance (≈ depreciation), lifting the base to about $272M, the cash it would throw off if it stopped expanding. The dials set the multiple a growth belief justifies; the price, and every dollar on this page, is yours.
Cite: Owner Scorecard, "GitLab Inc. (GTLB), the owner's record," https://ownerscorecard.com/c/GTLB, data as of 2026-07-09.
Manual order: ← GTES its page in the Manual GTLS →
Industry order: ← GRRR the Software chapter GTM →