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NFLX · Forward model

Revenue by vertical, 20 quarters out

Model as of

Each segment is projected from its own operating driver, rolled up into consolidated cash flow, and discounted back to a fair value per share. The assumptions below are editable — change them and every number on this page moves with them.

Netflix reports ONE operating segment and FOUR regional revenue lines: UCAN, EMEA, LATAM and APAC. This model carries exactly those four. Every historical point is copied as reported - 2024 Q2 through 2025 Q2 from the Q2 2025 Exhibit 99.1, 2025 Q3 through 2026 Q2 from the Q2 2026 Exhibit 99.1 - and no quarter is estimated. The four lines sum to consolidated revenue within $1M of letter rounding in all nine quarters, so there is no plug line. What is deliberately NOT modelled: advertising, guided to approximately $3B for 2026 but never disclosed as a revenue line, by region or by quarter, and already inside these four numbers - a separate ads vertical would double count; any subscribers x ARPU decomposition, because Netflix stopped publishing quarterly paid memberships and ARM after 2024 Q4; and any regional profitability split, because no cost, operating income or content spend is disclosed by region. Segment EBITDA here is pre-corporate-overhead: 38.2% vertical margin less 4.0% overhead is the consolidated 34.2%, which is the reported 33.4% operating margin plus $100.5M of property D&A. Capex intensity of 6.6% is purchases of property and equipment (1.7% of revenue) PLUS cash content spend in excess of content amortisation ($4,928M less $4,311M); content amortisation itself stays inside operating expense exactly as Netflix reports it and is not subtracted twice. Tax 16.4% is Q2's effective rate - Q1's 19.3% is distorted by the WBD fee. 2026 Q1 EPS of $1.23 and net income of $5,283M contain that $2.8B termination fee and are not a run rate; the merger was terminated on 27 February 2026, so there is no acquired revenue or library to model. Shares are held flat at the 4,261.3M diluted count even though the buyback removed about 2.0% of the count year over year and $27.1B of authorisation remains - Netflix gives no share-count guidance, so per-share outcomes here are conservative. One known tension: flat per-region sequential rates land FY2026 at about $50.84B, roughly 0.3% under the low end of the guided $51.0-$51.4B, because the guidance midpoint implies a Q4 sequential step of about +5% that a constant rate does not reproduce; Q3 alone lands at $12,867M against the $12,860M guide. netCash is cash $9,099M plus short-term investments $29M less short-term debt $2,484M less long-term debt $11,826M, i.e. net debt of $5.18B. Reference price is the 2026-08-24 close from the house capture; the local profile price of $72.88 is stale.

NFLX REVENUE MODEL

Latest: $17.66B (2031Q2E)

Period Value
2024Q2 $9.56B
2024Q3 $9.82B
2024Q4 $10.25B
2025Q1 $10.54B
2025Q2 $11.08B
2025Q3 $11.51B
2025Q4 $12.05B
2026Q1 $12.25B
2026Q2 $12.56B
2026Q3E $12.87B
2026Q4E $13.16B
2027Q1E $13.45B
2027Q2E $13.73B
2027Q3E $14.01B
2027Q4E $14.28B
2028Q1E $14.54B
2028Q2E $14.79B
2028Q3E $15.05B
2028Q4E $15.29B
2029Q1E $15.54B
2029Q2E $15.78B
2029Q3E $16.02B
2029Q4E $16.26B
2030Q1E $16.49B
2030Q2E $16.73B
2030Q3E $16.96B
2030Q4E $17.19B
2031Q1E $17.43B
2031Q2E $17.66B
Scenarios

Where each case comes from

Bull case — primary sources

The primary sources this case is built from — filings, calls and posts. Where they are claims by an interested party rather than disclosures, every number in the Bull column is what happens if they are taken at face value.

Ads flywheel case — primary sources

The primary sources this case is built from — filings, calls and posts. Where they are claims by an interested party rather than disclosures, every number in the Ads flywheel column is what happens if they are taken at face value.

Valuation

From cash flow to fair value

The published model, discounted at 9.0% a year with an exit multiple of 5.0x on revenue. The sliders above do not change this walk.

Present value of free cash flow, 20 quarters$60.72B
Terminal-year revenue$69.24B
Terminal-year EBITDA$24.91B
Exit multiple, on revenue5.0x
Terminal value$346.19B
Discounted at 9.0% a year, terminal value becomes$225.00B
Share of enterprise value from the terminal79%
Enterprise value$285.72B
Net cash−$5.18B
Equity value$280.54B
Shares4.26B
Fair value per share$65.83
Against the deployed price of $76.01, as of −13%

5x the terminal year's revenue. Today the equity is about $341B at $80.01 on 4,261.3M diluted shares, an EV of about $346B after $5.18B of net debt, or 7.2x trailing revenue of $48.37B and about 30x clean trailing EPS of ~$2.66 once the WBD termination fee is removed. The exit is a de-rate, and deliberately: a business growing 4-6% a year with a 40%-ish pre-overhead margin is a mature subscription compounder, not a 13% grower. There is no clean peer - Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery carry legacy linear assets and Spotify has a fraction of the margin - so the exit multiple is judgement rather than a comp. Move it before anything else: at 4x the answer is in the mid-40s, at 6x it clears the high 80s. The r40 analyst block shows a Buy consensus with a $94.04 average target across 51 analysts on a $70-$135 range, above this base case, which is what a higher terminal multiple buys you. Discount rate is 9%: cash-generative and lightly levered, but growth is decelerating and content spend is a standing obligation.

Read the other way round: at $76.01 the market is paying 6.0x terminal-year revenue, holding every other assumption on this page fixed. That is the number to argue about.

Quarter by quarter

The projected path

Quarter UCANEMEALATAMAPAC Revenue YoY EBITDA Capex FCF R40 PV of FCF
2026 Q3E $5.55B$4.13B$1.63B$1.56B $12.87B +12% $4.42B $829M $3.01B +35 $2.94B
2026 Q4E $5.66B$4.22B$1.68B$1.61B $13.16B +9% $4.55B $829M $3.11B +33 $2.98B
2027 Q1E $5.76B$4.32B$1.72B$1.65B $13.45B +10% $4.67B $830M $3.21B +34 $3.01B
2027 Q2E $5.87B$4.41B$1.76B$1.70B $13.73B +9% $4.79B $831M $3.31B +33 $3.03B
2027 Q3E $5.97B$4.49B$1.80B$1.74B $14.01B +9% $4.90B $833M $3.40B +33 $3.05B
2027 Q4E $6.07B$4.58B$1.84B$1.78B $14.28B +8% $5.01B $835M $3.49B +33 $3.07B
2028 Q1E $6.16B$4.66B$1.88B$1.83B $14.54B +8% $5.12B $838M $3.58B +33 $3.08B
2028 Q2E $6.26B$4.75B$1.92B$1.87B $14.79B +8% $5.22B $842M $3.66B +32 $3.08B
2028 Q3E $6.35B$4.83B$1.96B$1.91B $15.05B +7% $5.33B $846M $3.75B +32 $3.09B
2028 Q4E $6.44B$4.91B$1.99B$1.95B $15.29B +7% $5.43B $850M $3.83B +32 $3.09B
2029 Q1E $6.53B$4.99B$2.03B$1.99B $15.54B +7% $5.53B $855M $3.91B +32 $3.08B
2029 Q2E $6.62B$5.07B$2.06B$2.03B $15.78B +7% $5.62B $860M $3.98B +32 $3.08B
2029 Q3E $6.70B$5.14B$2.10B$2.07B $16.02B +6% $5.72B $866M $4.06B +32 $3.07B
2029 Q4E $6.79B$5.22B$2.13B$2.11B $16.26B +6% $5.81B $872M $4.13B +32 $3.06B
2030 Q1E $6.87B$5.30B$2.16B$2.15B $16.49B +6% $5.91B $879M $4.20B +32 $3.04B
2030 Q2E $6.96B$5.38B$2.20B$2.19B $16.73B +6% $6.00B $886M $4.28B +32 $3.03B
2030 Q3E $7.04B$5.45B$2.23B$2.23B $16.96B +6% $6.09B $893M $4.35B +32 $3.01B
2030 Q4E $7.13B$5.53B$2.27B$2.27B $17.19B +6% $6.18B $901M $4.42B +31 $3.00B
2031 Q1E $7.21B$5.60B$2.30B$2.31B $17.43B +6% $6.27B $909M $4.49B +31 $2.98B
2031 Q2E $7.29B$5.68B$2.33B$2.35B $17.66B +6% $6.36B $917M $4.55B +31 $2.96B

Every row is projected. A year-over-year change is shown only where the quarter it compares against exists — an em dash means there is no comparable quarter, not a flat year.

Track record

Model revisions

Assumptions are marked to reality as each quarter prints. Every change is appended here, with the fair value the model produced at the time, so the model's own history stays visible.

DateFair value thenNote
2026-08-27 $65.83 Initial model. Four verticals on the disclosed UCAN/EMEA/LATAM/APAC revenue lines, nine reported quarters each, basis the June 2026 quarter at $12,560M. Opening sequential rates are calibrated so Q3 2026 lands at $12,867M against the $12,860M guide; FY2026 comes out at about $50.84B, marginally under the guided $51.0-$51.4B because a constant sequential rate does not reproduce the implied Q4 step.