Share count
3.2Bpeak FY2016
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VIV, Telefonica Brasil S.A.
Telecom Operators capital-intensive
A telecom carrier, renting access to a network that must be constantly rebuilt.
The business
What it sells, where the money comes from, the kind of company it is.
Revenue · FY2025
R$6.2B
Vital signs · TTM, with 5-yr average
The business in brief
What this business is and what moves its needle, from its own SEC filings.
- What moves the needle
- Subscribers, revenue per user, and network capex. What decides it: net adds against churn, ARPU, and the relentless capital to keep the network competitive.
Every line is arithmetic on the company's filings, shown in full in the sections below.
The record
Ten years of arithmetic, read across the cycle.
The record, charted
FY2016–2025Each measure over its full record; the current point and the worst year marked. Share counts on the current split basis.
Owner earnings vs. net income
Owner earningsNet incomeThe accountant's number, and the cash an owner can take; the gap is the tell.
R$11.3Bowner earningsvs.R$6.2Bnet incomelow FY2018
Where the cash went
ReinvestBuybacksDividendsAcquisitionsRetainedEach year's operating cash, by what management did with it: the mix, and how it drifts.
FY2016FY2025
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 2025 the business turned R$6.2B of profit into R$11.3B of owner earnings: more cash than the profit line showed, after the non-cash charges and the capital it put back in.
| FY2025 | FY2024 | FY2023 | FY2022 | FY2021 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reported net income | R$6.2B | R$5.5B | R$5.0B | R$4.1B | R$6.2B |
| Depreciation & amortizationnon-cash charge added back | +R$14.9B | +R$14.2B | +R$13.4B | +R$12.7B | +R$12.0B |
| Working capital & othertiming of cash in and out, other non-cash items | −R$395M | +R$126M | +R$367M | +R$2.2B | −R$205M |
| Cash from operations | R$20.7B | R$19.9B | R$18.8B | R$18.9B | R$18.1B |
| Capital expenditurecash put back in to keep running and to grow | −R$9.5B | −R$9.3B | −R$8.8B | −R$9.9B | −R$9.3B |
| Owner earnings | R$11.3B | R$10.6B | R$10.0B | R$9.0B | R$8.8B |
| Owner-earnings marginowner earnings ÷ revenue | — | — | — | — | — |
Owner earnings is the cash an owner could pull out without starving the business: operating cash less the capital it must spend to hold its position .
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
FY2025 20-F · source on SEC EDGAR →
Will it survive?
- AdequateOperating income R$9.9B ÷ interest expense R$4.4B
What this means
Comfortable in a normal year, but below the margin of safety Graham looked for. Worth checking how stable the coverage has been across a full cycle.
- Debt under-captured — leverage unknown, not low
What this means
This company pays far more interest than its tagged debt implies (the rest sits under segment dimensions the data source strips), so its net cash or net debt cannot be read honestly: the gap is unknown, not zero, and 'net cash' here would be exactly the fiction the figure is meant to prevent. Judge it on the record and owner earnings instead.
- Long (60+ days)DSO 628 + DIO 16 − DPO 109 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.
Is it a good business?
- Debt under-capturedIndustry peers: median 1%
What this means
This company's interest bill implies far more debt than its filings tag at the consolidated level (the rest sits under segment dimensions the data source strips), so invested capital, and the return on it, cannot be read honestly. Judge this one on Owner Earnings and the record instead.
- HighOwner earnings R$11.3B = operating cash R$20.7B − maintenance capex R$9.5BIndustry peers: median 7%
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 183% of revenue this year.
- Cash-backedCash from ops R$20.7B ÷ net income R$6.2B
What this means
How much of reported profit showed up as operating cash. Above 1× is reassuring; well below suggests earnings lean on accruals. One year is noisy, growth and working-capital swings distort it, and this is operating cash, not free cash. Watch the multi-year trend.
How is the cash used?
- Reinvests most of itDividends + buybacks R$3.9B ÷ Owner Earnings R$11.3B
What this means
Of R$11.3B Owner Earnings, R$3.9B (35%) went back to shareholders, R$2.2B dividends, R$1.7B 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? 0.63×HarvestingCapex R$9.5B ÷ depreciation R$14.9B
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 · 2 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 —Revenue ≥ $2B (a dollar floor) · R$6.2B
What this means
Big enough to weather a storm. Graham's floor is a dollar figure — about $2B of revenue as a conservative modern stand-in. This company reports in its home currency and we carry no exchange rate, so we show the figure and leave the size bar for you to apply rather than convert it with a number we don't have.
- Strong liquidity MissCurrent ratio ≥ 2× · 1.00×
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.
- Conservative debt —Debt ≤ working capital · —
What this means
The filings tag only a fraction of the debt this company's interest bill implies (much of it sits under segment dimensions the data source strips), so this test can't be run honestly.
- Earnings stability PassA profit every year (10-yr record) · no losses
What this means
Graham wanted earnings in each of the past ten years, the stability a defensive owner leans on.
- Dividend record PassUninterrupted dividends · paid every year (10)
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 MissEarnings +33% over the record · −5%
What this means
At least a third more earnings than a decade ago, averaging three years at each end. Net income (not per-share), so stock splits don't distort it, buybacks and dilution show up in the share-count line instead.
- 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 R$1.75/share (latest year R$1.93), the averaged base the calculator's gate runs on, and book value is R$21.51/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.
Does AI threaten the moat?
Low contestabilityThe moat is physical, regulated or balance-sheet-funded, the kind AI cuts costs within but does not contest.
AI is unlikely to contest a moat that is physical, regulated or balance-sheet-funded; here it reads more as a cost tool than a threat.
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 fiscal year-end, Dec 31, 2025Can 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 assetsR$25.2B
- Cash & short-term investmentsR$7.1B
- ReceivablesR$10.6B
- InventoryR$1.5B
- Other current assetsR$6.0B
Current liabilitiesR$25.2B
- Accounts payableR$9.9B
- Other current liabilitiesR$15.4B
Current ratio1.00×all current assets ÷ what's due · Graham looked for 2×
Quick ratio0.94×stricter: inventory excluded
Cash ratio0.28×strictest: cash alone against what's due
Working capital(R$26M)the cushion left after near-term bills
Deeper floors
Tangible book valueR$45.7Bequity stripped of goodwill & intangibles
Net current asset value(R$33.8B)Graham's net-net: current assets less all liabilities
Deferred revenueR$504Mcustomer cash collected before delivery; operating float
From the company's latest filing.
How the cash was used, 2016–2025
Over the record, the business generated R$169.5B of operating cash; how management split it reads as a reinvestor, most operating cash is plowed back into the business.
- ReinvestedR$88.3B · 52%
- DividendsR$41.4B · 24%
- BuybacksR$4.7B · 3%
- Retained (debt / cash)R$35.2B · 21%
- Returned to ownersR$46.0B
57% of the owner earnings the business produced over the span, R$41.4B as dividends and R$4.7B as buybacks.
- Average price paid for buybacks—
Buybacks ran R$4.7B over the span, but the filings don't tag the share count needed to deduce the average price paid.
- Net change in share count−5.4%
The diluted count fell from 3377M to 3196M, so the buybacks outran the stock issued to staff.
- Dividend recordR$0.68/sh
Paid in 10 of the years on record, the per-share dividend shrinking about 3% a year. It was cut at least once along the way.
- Return on what it retained80%
Of the earnings it kept rather than paid out (R$8.4B over the span), annual owner earnings (first three years vs last three) grew R$6.7B, so each retained R$1 added about 0.80 of yearly owner earnings. Buffett's test, run on owner earnings instead of market value.
Buybacks are gross of stock issued to staff; the share-count line above is the net of that, the figure that decides whether owners gained. The average price paid blends a year of purchases (and any accelerated repurchase), so it is close, not exact. The record of where the cash went and on what terms.
Peers, Telecom Operators
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LUMNLumen Technologies | $11.3B | 52% | 3.3% | 2% | 10% |
| VSNTVersant Media Group, Inc. | $6.7B | — | 26.1% | 13% | 31% |
| VIVTelefonica Brasil S.A. | R$6.2B | — | 159.8% | — | 183% |
| LBTYALiberty Global Ltd. Class A | $4.9B | 72% | 6.5% | 1% | 30% |
| VSATViaSat Inc. | $4.6B | 88% | -2.7% | -2% | 7% |
| UNITUniti Group Inc. | $2.2B | — | 32.9% | 3% | 1% |
| TDSTelephone and Data Systems | $1.1B | — | 2.2% | 1% | 3% |
| SHENShenandoah Telecom | $358M | 41% | -1.1% | -0% | -24% |
| Group median | — | — | 4.9% | — | 8% |
The price
What a price has to assume.
What the price implies
reverse-DCFEnter the US price, in dollars: the NYSE/Nasdaq quote you hold. Per the filing's own cover, “American Depositary Shares (as evidenced by American Depositary Receipts), each representing two Common”; Telefonica Brasil S.A. reports in BRL, so every figure in this tool is stated per ADS and translated at BRL 1 = $0.197 (2026-07-17, reference rate) so your dollar quote reconciles exactly. The record tables elsewhere on this page remain as filed, in BRL.
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The assumptions
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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 ’23–’25)—
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—
Owner earnings $2.2B on 1598M shares outstanding, per the 20-F cover, as of 2025-12-31; net cash $1.4B. 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. The dials set the multiple a growth belief justifies; the price, and every dollar on this page, is yours.
Cite: Owner Scorecard, "Telefonica Brasil S.A. (VIV), the owner's record," https://ownerscorecard.com/c/VIV, data as of 2026-07-09.
Manual order: ← VIST its page in the Manual VIVO →
Industry order: ← VEON the Telecom Operators chapter VOD →