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The Bull case, 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.

WHAT IS DISCLOSED. Both verticals are lines printed in UiPath's filed condensed consolidated statements of operations, read from each quarter's own 8-K exhibit 99.1 across thirteen quarters. Nothing is apportioned and nothing is estimated. The platform vertical is the SUM of two adjacent printed lines, Licenses and Subscription services; the services vertical is the Professional services and other line as printed. The two sum to reported total revenue to the dollar in all thirteen quarters. The ARR base, net new ARR, dollar-based net retention, the customer counts and the remaining performance obligations are disclosed figures; $1,901,211 thousand of ARR at 30 April 2026 is printed to the thousand in the 10-Q. WHY ARR AND NOT REVENUE. Reported revenue grew 17% in the basis quarter while ARR grew 12%. The difference is recognition timing: term licences are recognised UP FRONT at delivery, so a heavier licence quarter prints faster revenue growth than the recurring base earned. UiPath's own ARR definition covers subscription licences and maintenance and support and excludes professional services and perpetual licences, which is exactly why the two recognition halves sit in one vertical and the services line sits outside it. A model built on the revenue line would extrapolate the timing. This one extrapolates the base and lets the seasonality carry the calendar. WHAT IS ASSUMED. Forward net new ARR of $53.0m a quarter is UiPath's own fiscal 2027 exit-ARR guide divided by three quarters; its 0.5% quarterly growth, the 87.0% conversion rate and its 88.0% target, the 29.5% and 36.0% platform margins, the -110% and -70% services margins, the 18% tax rate, the 10% discount rate and the 4.0x exit multiple are judgements, and each carries its reasoning beside it. THE MARGIN BOUNDARY, STATED PLAINLY. The 29.5% platform margin nets to 24.1% consolidated after the loss-making services line. That sits on the non-GAAP operating margin UiPath guides for fiscal 2027 and near its adjusted free-cash-flow margin - and about 17 points ABOVE its GAAP operating margin of 6.7% in the basis quarter. The whole gap is stock-based compensation, $290.7m in fiscal 2026 and 18.0% of revenue. This model treats it as non-cash, which is the standard treatment across this repo, and for UiPath it is defensible on evidence rather than convention: the company repurchased 20.4 million shares for $243.8m in the basis quarter alone against $53.3m of stock-based compensation in the same quarter, and the diluted share count consequently FELL 3.8% year over year, to 527.8 million from 548.5 million. The buyback is more than neutralising the dilution. The model holds the share count flat and does not charge the buyback against free cash flow, both of which are conservative. WHAT THE TAX RATE IS NOT. UiPath's GAAP effective rate was 5.6% in fiscal 2026 and 45.0% in the basis quarter, and neither is a forward cash rate: both are artefacts of the valuation-allowance release that cut the allowance from $406.3m to $150.5m and produced a $202.7m non-cash deferred benefit. That single item is also why fiscal 2026 GAAP net income was $282.3m against $57m of GAAP operating income. The 18% constant used here sits between the roughly 17% of pre-tax income UiPath actually paid in cash in the basis quarter and a statutory rate as the $325.5m of loss carryforwards run down. WHAT IS NOT MODELLED. Acquisitions - WorkFusion closed 5 February 2026 for approximately $190.0m and is inside the basis quarter's actuals and inside the ARR base, but no further deal is projected or funded. The $500.0m repurchase authorised in March 2026 is a financing use of cash and is not charged as capex. There is no capital programme: UiPath has no fab, plant, data-centre estate or joint venture, and capital spending was 0.64% of revenue in the basis quarter. WHEN THIS GOES STALE. UiPath reports its fiscal 2027 second quarter on 3 September 2026, three days after this model was written, and that is the quarter management guided DOWN sequentially. The basis quarter and the reproduction target will both be superseded by that print.

PATH forward model
Horizon
Fair value per share $23.88 +86% against $12.84
Terminal-year revenue $2.91B last four projected quarters
Enterprise value $11.19B $2.16B explicit + $9.03B terminal

Two disclosed things turned in the basis quarter and neither is recognition timing. Dollar-based net retention rose to 109% from 108%, the first year-over-year increase in a series that had fallen through eleven consecutive quarters - 122, 121, 121, 119, 118, 115, 113, 110, 108, 108, 107, 107 - before it. And the large-account cohort is compounding far faster than the total: customers with ARR above $1 million reached 374 against 316, up 18.4%, and now carry 52% of revenue against 47% a year earlier. Retention above 100% plus a mix shift into accounts that expand is how an ARR line re-accelerates without a single new logo, and the disclosed $1,413.2m of remaining performance obligations, 64% of it expected inside twelve months, is the contracted floor under the first four projected quarters. This case adds 0.5% a quarter to revenue, two points of margin and exits at 5.0x, still below the 6.0x this repo gives Okta. It reaches $23.88, 31.5% above the tape.

PATH REVENUE MODEL

Latest: $713M (2032Q1E)

Period Value
2024Q1 $290M
2024Q2 $287M
2024Q3 $326M
2024Q4 $405M
2025Q1 $335M
2025Q2 $316M
2025Q3 $355M
2025Q4 $424M
2026Q1 $357M
2026Q2 $362M
2026Q3 $411M
2026Q4 $481M
2027Q1 $418M
2027Q2E $401M
2027Q3E $452M
2027Q4E $551M
2028Q1E $462M
2028Q2E $455M
2028Q3E $511M
2028Q4E $621M
2029Q1E $520M
2029Q2E $511M
2029Q3E $573M
2029Q4E $696M
2030Q1E $581M
2030Q2E $570M
2030Q3E $638M
2030Q4E $774M
2031Q1E $645M
2031Q2E $632M
2031Q3E $707M
2031Q4E $856M
2032Q1E $713M
Scenarios

Where each case comes from

Bear 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 Bear column is what happens if they are taken at face value.

Base 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 Base column is what happens if they are taken at face value.

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.

Dines 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 Dines column is what happens if they are taken at face value.

Valuation

From cash flow to fair value

The published model, discounted at 10.0% a year with an exit multiple of 5.0x on revenue. The horizon and sliders above do not change this walk.

Present value of free cash flow, 20 quarters$2.16B
Terminal-year revenue$2.91B
Terminal-year EBITDA$924M
Exit multiple, on revenue5.0x
Terminal value$14.54B
Discounted at 10.0% a year, terminal value becomes$9.03B
Share of enterprise value from the terminal81%
Enterprise value$11.19B
Net cash$1.42B
Equity value$12.60B
Shares0.53B
Fair value per share$23.88
Against the deployed price of $12.84, as of +86%

A 10% discount rate is peer-consistent for a profitable software business with $1.42bn of net cash, no debt of any kind and no financing need - the same rate this repo uses for OKTA, DDOG and CRWD. The exit multiple is where the argument is. At $18.15 UiPath's enterprise value is $8.16bn, which is 4.59x the guided fiscal 2027 revenue midpoint and 4.29x current ARR. The base takes 4.0x terminal revenue, 13% of compression over five years on a line whose growth roughly halves: the model's terminal year grows 8.3% at a 29.8% EBITDA margin and a 23.6% free-cash-flow margin, which is 16.9x terminal free cash flow. Repo comparables sit either side - Salesforce at 4.5x on roughly 10% growth, Okta at 6.0x on a 29% free-cash-flow margin, Datadog at 8.0x on mid-teens growth, none of which UiPath reaches. Terminal value is $6.58bn of the $8.49bn enterprise value in the base case, 77.6% of it, so the exit multiple is by a wide margin the single largest input in this model and anything said about UiPath being cheap or expensive is a statement about that number. Holding every other input fixed, fair value runs $14.08 at 2.5x, $15.64 at 3.0x, $17.20 at 3.5x, $18.76 at 4.0x, $20.32 at 4.5x, $21.88 at 5.0x and $23.44 at 5.5x - roughly $3.12 a share per turn. The average sell-side twelve-month target of $13.44 corresponds to about 2.3x on these inputs; the tape at $18.15 corresponds to about 3.8x.

Read the other way round: at $12.84 the market is paying 1.8x 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 Platform (licences and subscription services)Professional services and other Revenue YoY EBITDA Capex FCF R40 PV of FCF
2027 Q2E $385M$17M $401M +11% $105M $3M $83M +32 $81M
2027 Q3E $435M$17M $452M +10% $122M $4M $97M +31 $93M
2027 Q4E $533M$17M $551M +14% $155M $5M $124M +37 $115M
2028 Q1E $444M$18M $462M +10% $128M $4M $101M +32 $92M
2028 Q2E $436M$18M $455M +13% $126M $4M $100M +35 $89M
2028 Q3E $492M$19M $511M +13% $146M $4M $116M +36 $100M
2028 Q4E $603M$19M $621M +13% $184M $6M $146M +36 $124M
2029 Q1E $501M$19M $520M +13% $151M $5M $120M +36 $99M
2029 Q2E $491M$20M $511M +12% $149M $5M $118M +35 $95M
2029 Q3E $553M$20M $573M +12% $171M $5M $136M +36 $107M
2029 Q4E $675M$20M $696M +12% $214M $6M $170M +36 $131M
2030 Q1E $560M$21M $581M +12% $175M $5M $139M +36 $105M
2030 Q2E $549M$21M $570M +12% $172M $5M $137M +36 $100M
2030 Q3E $616M$22M $638M +11% $196M $6M $156M +36 $112M
2030 Q4E $752M$22M $774M +11% $245M $7M $195M +36 $136M
2031 Q1E $623M$22M $645M +11% $200M $6M $159M +36 $109M
2031 Q2E $609M$23M $632M +11% $196M $6M $156M +36 $104M
2031 Q3E $684M$23M $707M +11% $223M $7M $178M +36 $116M
2031 Q4E $833M$23M $856M +11% $277M $8M $221M +36 $140M
2032 Q1E $689M$24M $713M +10% $227M $7M $180M +36 $112M

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
2026-08-31 $18.76 First publication. Basis 2027 Q1, the three months ended 30 April 2026. Built on the disclosed ARR base and its measured conversion into recognised revenue rather than on the reported revenue line, because reported revenue grew 17% while ARR grew 12% and the difference is upfront licence recognition.