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NOW · 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.

Reported segments only: ServiceNow publishes exactly two revenue lines, subscription and professional services and other, and this model carries exactly those two. Every historical quarter is disclosed - nothing is apportioned, nothing is estimated. Vertical margins are the gross margins the company guides or discloses (81% non-GAAP subscription for FY2026, -14.5% non-GAAP for services); operating expenses are not disclosed by line, so all of them sit in corporate overhead, set at 47.0% of revenue, which is the level that reproduces the guided FY2026 non-GAAP operating margin of 31.5% in the first projected quarter. Free cash flow here is EBITDA less capex less tax at the disclosed 21% non-GAAP rate; it is NOT the company's non-GAAP free cash flow margin of 35%, which adds back stock-based compensation and the working-capital benefit of deferred revenue. Both verticals are deliberately aseasonal - twelve interior quarters of ratio-to-moving-average factors sit within 1.4% of 1.0 on the subscription line with a wider spread than signal. The Q3/Q4 2026 sequential zigzag in guidance is a one-off federal pull-forward and is smoothed rather than encoded, so the model prints 2026 Q3 subscription revenue of $4,053m against guidance of $3,975-3,980m and 2026 Q4 of $4,232m against the $4,245m the FY guide implies, with H2 in aggregate 0.8% above the guided sum. No consensus is carried: the available EPS consensus sits on a third accounting basis from either the GAAP $0.29 or the non-GAAP $0.90 ServiceNow reported.

NOW forward model
Horizon
Fair value per share $167.08 +25% against $134.01
Terminal-year revenue $31.09B last four projected quarters
Enterprise value $173.57B $22.03B explicit + $151.53B terminal
NOW REVENUE MODEL

Latest: $8.14B (2031Q2E)

Period Value
2022Q4 $1.94B
2023Q1 $2.10B
2023Q2 $2.15B
2023Q3 $2.29B
2023Q4 $2.44B
2024Q1 $2.60B
2024Q2 $2.63B
2024Q3 $2.80B
2024Q4 $2.96B
2025Q1 $3.09B
2025Q2 $3.21B
2025Q3 $3.41B
2025Q4 $3.57B
2026Q1 $3.77B
2026Q2 $3.99B
2026Q3E $4.17B
2026Q4E $4.35B
2027Q1E $4.53B
2027Q2E $4.71B
2027Q3E $4.90B
2027Q4E $5.09B
2028Q1E $5.28B
2028Q2E $5.48B
2028Q3E $5.67B
2028Q4E $5.88B
2029Q1E $6.08B
2029Q2E $6.29B
2029Q3E $6.50B
2029Q4E $6.72B
2030Q1E $6.95B
2030Q2E $7.17B
2030Q3E $7.41B
2030Q4E $7.65B
2031Q1E $7.89B
2031Q2E $8.14B
Scenarios

Where each case comes from

McDermott 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 McDermott 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 7.5x on revenue. The horizon and sliders above do not change this walk.

Present value of free cash flow, 20 quarters$22.03B
Terminal-year revenue$31.09B
Terminal-year EBITDA$10.30B
Exit multiple, on revenue7.5x
Terminal value$233.15B
Discounted at 9.0% a year, terminal value becomes$151.53B
Share of enterprise value from the terminal87%
Enterprise value$173.57B
Net cash−$810M
Equity value$172.76B
Shares1.03B
Fair value per share$167.08
Against the deployed price of $134.01, as of +25%

ServiceNow trades at 8.2x EV/revenue at the 24 August close - $132.4bn of equity on 1,034m diluted shares plus $0.81bn of net debt, over roughly $16.2bn of guided FY2026 revenue. The exit takes 7.5x, a modest de-rate for growth falling from 22% toward the mid teens. For scale, the repo carries Salesforce at 4.5x against about 10% growth.

Read the other way round: at $134.01 the market is paying 5.8x terminal-year revenue, holding every other assumption on this page fixed. That is the number to argue about.

Quarter by quarter

The projected path

The published model's 20 quarters. The horizon and sliders above do not change this table.

Quarter SubscriptionProfessional services and other Revenue YoY EBITDA Capex FCF R40 PV of FCF
2026 Q3E $4.05B$112M $4.17B +22% $1.31B $137M $929M +45 $909M
2026 Q4E $4.23B$114M $4.35B +22% $1.38B $141M $975M +44 $934M
2027 Q1E $4.41B$117M $4.53B +20% $1.44B $146M $1.02B +43 $958M
2027 Q2E $4.59B$119M $4.71B +18% $1.50B $150M $1.07B +41 $981M
2027 Q3E $4.78B$121M $4.90B +18% $1.57B $155M $1.12B +40 $1.00B
2027 Q4E $4.97B$123M $5.09B +17% $1.63B $160M $1.16B +40 $1.02B
2028 Q1E $5.16B$125M $5.28B +17% $1.70B $165M $1.21B +40 $1.04B
2028 Q2E $5.35B$127M $5.48B +16% $1.77B $170M $1.26B +39 $1.06B
2028 Q3E $5.54B$130M $5.67B +16% $1.84B $176M $1.31B +39 $1.08B
2028 Q4E $5.74B$132M $5.88B +15% $1.91B $181M $1.37B +39 $1.10B
2029 Q1E $5.95B$134M $6.08B +15% $1.98B $187M $1.42B +38 $1.12B
2029 Q2E $6.15B$136M $6.29B +15% $2.06B $192M $1.47B +38 $1.14B
2029 Q3E $6.37B$138M $6.50B +15% $2.13B $198M $1.53B +38 $1.15B
2029 Q4E $6.58B$141M $6.72B +14% $2.21B $204M $1.58B +38 $1.17B
2030 Q1E $6.80B$143M $6.95B +14% $2.29B $210M $1.64B +38 $1.19B
2030 Q2E $7.03B$145M $7.17B +14% $2.37B $217M $1.70B +38 $1.20B
2030 Q3E $7.26B$148M $7.41B +14% $2.45B $223M $1.76B +38 $1.22B
2030 Q4E $7.50B$150M $7.65B +14% $2.53B $230M $1.82B +38 $1.23B
2031 Q1E $7.74B$152M $7.89B +14% $2.62B $237M $1.88B +37 $1.25B
2031 Q2E $7.99B$155M $8.14B +13% $2.70B $244M $1.94B +37 $1.26B

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 $167.08 First published model, built on the 2026 Q2 8-K Exhibit 99.1 with fifteen quarters of the disclosed subscription and professional-services split.