Is Stevanato Group S.p.A. (STVN) a good stock to buy?

Price through Oct 9 market close · SEC data refreshed 18 days ago ⓘ · Not investment advice
Stevanato Group S.p.A.
STVN Healthcare Medical Devices📄 SEC filings ↗
Model suggests significant overvaluation
⚠ Low-confidence DCF estimate
More against than for ●●●●●

What we have tested leans negative. To like it anyway you need a reason our checks do not capture.

What each rating means, in numbers

Business quality — Middling. Passes 5 of the 9 health checks we can measure — things like making a profit, turning it into cash, and not piling on debt. Across 131,000 company-quarters the weakest scorers went on to fail at 5.4% against 1.4% for the strongest, in every era and all twelve sectors.

How wild is the price? — Wild. The share price swings about 54% in a typical year, which puts it in the above average. Out of every 100 companies that swung like this, about 3.7 went bankrupt within the year. Across the three periods we tested that ran from 0.9% to 5.7%.

What "tested" means here, and why there is no score out of 100

Tested means the read was measured against what actually happened afterwards, on a history that keeps the companies that were later delisted, using only figures that had been filed on the day they are used. Survival was ranked on companies that really did fail. What an owner keeps was tested across the universe from 2011 to 2025.

The full record of everything we have tested is on the research pages.

Which benchmark. Over the period we tested, the median listed company returned +5.8% a year while the S&P 500 returned about +13.9% — the index is weighted by size and was carried by a handful of enormous winners. So "beats the index" and "beats the other companies you could have bought" are different questions. Where a read says it picks better companies, it means the second one. None of these gets you an index fund's return, and we would rather say that than imply otherwise.

The quality read is the strongest thing we have tested: 131,000 company-quarters across 5,300 companies, where the weakest scorers went on to fail at 5.4% against 1.4% for the strongest, holding in every era and all twelve sectors. It still says less likely to break, not likely to beat the market — every band in that study lost to the index at the median, because the median listed company does.

Each read is shown on its own rather than merged into a single score, so you can see which part is strong and which is weak instead of taking an average on trust.

▾ What goes into the smart-money reading
Valuation (price vs model IV) (40%) 92/100 → +36.8
Smart money (short interest + insider buying) (30%) 45/100 → +13.5
Macro backdrop (VIX, curve, credit, fear/greed + week-over-week momentum) (30%) 30/100 → +9.0
Total59/100

Contributions (weight × component score) sum to the total. This near-term score now includes fundamental health (leverage, FCF trend, DCF applicability). See the Financial Health section for the full balance-sheet read.

💵 Price $19.40 · through Oct 9 market close 📄 Financials SEC EDGAR · refreshed 18 days ago
Business type Pre-profit medical devices ⓘ Pre-profit medical-device maker — revenue growth, gross margin, runway and dilution.
8%
vs 14% normally
Low
The market, not this company tested

Chance the S&P 500 falls 10% or more in the next three months.

Counted from every day since 2006. Says nothing about STVN — see the board for how it is measured.

📍 Where to start on this page, and what to look at first

How to read STVN

STVN generates real cash flow, but the DCF here is a low-confidence estimate — the value is sensitive to how we normalize cash flow, cyclicality, and secular/industry risk. Treat the DCF as one input, then pressure-test it against the reverse-DCF, leverage, and the operating trends below.

Where to start — the sections that matter most for this stock
  1. 1 The verdict + intrinsic value (our DCF) ↓
    Our estimate of what a share is worth, versus today's price.
  2. 2 Reverse-DCF + the interactive calculator ↓
    See the growth the price assumes, then flex every assumption yourself to pressure-test it.
  3. 3 Football field + peers ↓
    A cross-check across methods and against comparable companies.
Or — what are you trying to decide?
A note on process: fear-driven decisions — including fear of missing out — tend to be the expensive ones. A stock up 10% a day for three days is excitement, not evidence. Whichever reader you are, the data below is there to be checked before anything is decided.
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"It's surging — should I chase it?"
The momentum / FOMO trade. Before you chase, see whether the people who know it best are quietly selling into the rally.
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"Is it worth what it costs?"
The valuation trade. Our DCF, the growth the price implies, and a calculator you drive yourself.
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"Is it a cheap bargain?"
The deep-value trade. How far below assets and our value it trades — and whether it's cheap for a reason.

Is Stevanato Group S.p.A. (STVN) overvalued?

Macro: Neutral / mid-cycle

Yes, by our measure: the price is about 96% above what we think the business is worth.

STVN trades at $19.40 vs an estimated intrinsic value of $9.88 — a +96.4% premium to model IV.

Discount-rate sensitivity: $9.88 – $11.02 (Deeply overvalued)
10.1% (higher required return) → $9.88 · 9.5% (lower) → $11.02
how is this calculated?
Pegged to beta 1.02 (cost of equity 10.1%); sector/quality cross-check at 9.5%.
Margin of safety
None — price is above our value
Macro regime
Neutral / mid-cycle
No extreme readings in either direction. Stock selection matters more than macro positioning right now.

Not investment advice. The model can be wrong. Verify the assumptions in the sections below and consider consulting a licensed advisor for significant decisions.

What return would STVN pay as a bond?

Not measurable here. Pre-profit: the coupon is projected, not earned. An equity bond needs a coupon that exists today. See the cross-company ranking →

ⓘ Why does STVN trade at $19.40?

Stevanato Group S.p.A. has 273.0 million shares outstanding. At $19.40 per share, the market values all outstanding STVN equity at $5.3 billion. That's market capitalization, not enterprise value — enterprise value also accounts for debt and cash. The share price by itself tells you almost nothing — a company can pick any share price by splitting or issuing more shares. What matters is the total value (Market Cap?Market Cap — The total dollar value the market is assigning to the entire company.
Why it matters: This is the number that actually matters when comparing companies. Two companies with the same business but different share counts have the same market cap.
Reference: Mega cap >$200B · Large $10–200B · Mid $2–10B · Small $300M–2B · Micro <$300M
Full explanation →
) compared to what the business actually produces. This page values STVN in Per Share?Per Share — A company-level figure divided by total shares — what one share represents.
Why it matters: Per-share metrics are the only way to fairly compare two companies with different share counts.
Full explanation →
economics — what each share represents of the underlying business. Play with the share-price calculator on the homepage →

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Who owns STVN, and how it moves

From the SEC's own filings: every fund manager over $100M reports its holdings each quarter, and every officer and director reports theirs. Each point is what was public at the time.

1.21×
Moves with the market
Over the last year, a 1% move in the S&P 500 came with about a 1.2% move in STVN.
1.00×
Moves with its sector (Healthcare)
The same measure against the XLV sector fund over the last year.
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What growth must the market believe? ?Reverse DCF — Instead of asking "what is this stock worth?", asks "what growth rate is the current market price already assuming?"
Why it matters: It crystallizes the bull thesis as a single number you can argue with. If the market expects 40% growth for 10 years and you do not believe that, the stock is overvalued.
Reference: 10–15% = sustainable for strong companies · 20–25% = exceptional · 30%+ = historically very rare

Traditional DCF asks "what is this stock worth?" Reverse DCF flips it: it treats today's price as correct and solves for the growth rate that justifies it. In plain terms — if our model is right about everything else, the company's cash flow would have to grow (or shrink) by this much every year for the next 5 years for today's price to make sense. If that required growth looks unrealistic, the price is stretched; if it looks easy to beat, the price may be cheap.

To justify today's $19.40 price, STVN's free cash flow?Free Cash Flow (FCF) — Operating cash flow minus capital spending: cash left after a company covers operating costs, taxes and interest and reinvests in the business — but BEFORE repaying debt principal or paying dividends. The cash actually available to investors.
Why it matters: A company can show big profits on paper while burning through cash. FCF is what actually fills the bank account.
Reference: Healthy mature businesses convert 8–15% of revenue into FCF · Growth companies often negative
Full explanation →
must grow at:
+8.1%
5-year FCF growth, then fading implied by today's price
A 5-year cash-flow growth rate, fading to terminal growth afterwards, implied by today's live price.
▾ Exactly how this 5-year figure is computed
Starting FCF/share: $1.01 (projected from revenue × terminal margin)
Forecast length: 5 years at the solved rate, then a linear fade to terminal growth over years 6-10 — the same shape the DCF above uses
Terminal growth after the fade: 3.0%
Discount rate: 10.1% (the rate the model used)
Price used: $19.40 — the live price shown on this page (not frozen)
Method: solve for the constant annual growth rate that makes the discounted 10-year FCF stream + terminal value equal today's price.
Reasonable

Within range of what a quality mature business delivers over five years. Not demanding.

For reference: Reasonable — sustainable for a quality business over time.

▾ How we computed this · Reality check thresholds · Assumptions
Inputs:
  • Starting FCF/share: $1.01 (projected from revenue × terminal margin)
  • Discount Rate?Discount Rate — The annual return you demand for taking single-stock risk instead of buying a safe Treasury or index fund.
    Why it matters: Higher discount rate = stricter valuation (a stock has to produce more cash to be worth holding). Lower = more generous.
    Reference: 8–12% is standard · 9–10% matches S&P 500 historical return · Below 7% is illogical for single-stock risk
    Full explanation →
    : 10.1% — standard 8-12%; 9-10% matches S&P 500 historical return
  • Terminal Growth Rate?Terminal Growth Rate — The growth rate we assume the company holds forever, after the explicit 10-year forecast period ends.
    Why it matters: It anchors the long-tail value. Cannot mathematically exceed long-term GDP growth or the company eventually becomes larger than the global economy.
    Reference: 2–3% (matches long-term US GDP growth) · Above 4% is mathematically problematic
    Full explanation →
    : 3.0% — matches long-term GDP growth
  • Forecast horizon: 10 years explicit + terminal perpetuity
Reality-check scale:
≤ 0%Priced for decline — likely undervalued OR dying business
5-12%Reasonable; sustainable for quality businesses
12-18%Demanding — strong execution required
18-25%Exceptional — few companies sustain for a decade
25-35%Heroic — historically very rare
35%+Borderline impossible at scale

Sustaining 30%+ cash-flow growth for a full decade at scale is exceedingly rare — the bar is brutally high.

Use the interactive calculator below to change the discount rate, growth and terminal-growth assumptions and watch the value move.

Price against our valuation methods
Methods disagree
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2 methods compared
What this rating means

What the rating says — Methods disagree. Methods disagree: the price is ABOVE 1 of 2 method ranges while inside the rest — assumption-sensitive, not clearly fair.

What it does not say — Not a forecast. This shows where today's price sits against several different ways of valuing the business. Where the methods disagree, the spread itself is the useful part - it tells you how much the answer depends on which one you trust.

No method wins for this kind of company. We tested each of these inside this business type and none separated better than the others by enough to trust, consistently, across periods. Read the spread below as how much the methods disagree — which is worth seeing — and not as a ranking.

Football field: where does the price sit?

Both bars below come from our own cash-flow model — one tries a range of growth rates, one shows our three scenarios. A third bar comparing STVN with similar companies appears only when there are enough close peers to trust it, and there aren't here. So this shows how much the answer depends on growth, not a set of independent checks.

$7$14$21$27$34Current price $19.40If FCF grew -5%/yr → 14%/yr (flat 10-yr DCF sweep; model assumes 7.6%)$8.23$32.09Our model's scenarios (conservative → optimistic; ◆ base, ● weighted 40/35/25)$8.07$12.49weighted $9.88base $10.09
Methods disagree: the price is ABOVE 1 of 2 method ranges while inside the rest — assumption-sensitive, not clearly fair.

Industry multiples sourced from: broad market average (sector unknown). See the Peer Basket section below for the peer comparison and its limited-comparables caveat.

⚠ We found only 1 genuine same- or closely-related-industry (Medical Devices) comparable — fewer than the 4 we require for a reliable median. The 8 names in the table below therefore include 7 broader Healthcare names marked fallback, whose business models and margins differ — which is why any median below is computed over that wider set, not over true comparables. So we do not derive a peer-implied share value here. Read the multiples as rough context only.

How does STVN stack up against its closest peers?

Ideally we compare STVN only to same-industry peers, but too few exist in our universe right now, so the basket below mixes in broader-sector names. Treat the multiples as rough context, not a valuation. For a leveraged business, EV/EBIT and FCF yield (both in the table) are usually more reliable than EV/Sales, because revenue multiples ignore differences in margins and debt.

▾ What's "EV / Sales" in plain English?

EV (Enterprise Value) = market cap + total debt − cash. It's "what you'd pay to buy the entire company outright" — you pay the market cap to shareholders and take over their debt, but you keep their cash. EV is fairer than market cap alone because it includes the debt the new owner inherits.

EV / Sales = EV ÷ annual revenue. So "2.5×" means investors pay $2.50 of enterprise value per $1 of yearly sales. Higher = market is paying more per dollar of sales (usually because they expect future growth or fat margins).

p25 / median / p75 are the 25th, 50th (middle), and 75th percentile of the peers' multiples. Half the peers fall between p25 and p75. The median (p50) is the typical peer — that's the benchmark we compare to.

What peers trade at (p25 / median / p75)
EV / Sales?EV / Sales — For every $1 of yearly revenue, this is how many dollars investors pay to own the whole business (including debt).
Why it matters: Works for pre-profit growth companies where P/E and FCF don't apply. The most apples-to-apples cross-company multiple because it ignores accounting choices.
Reference: 1–3x for mature companies · 4–10x for software/SaaS · 10–20x for hypergrowth · >20x is rare and demanding
Full explanation →
2.4x / 3.4x / 5.0x
EV / Gross Profit?EV / Gross Profit — Enterprise value divided by gross profit — the multiple paid for what each dollar of sales contributes after direct costs.
Why it matters: More refined than EV/Sales for high-margin businesses (software, marketplaces) where gross margin is the real economic engine.
Reference: 8–15x for SaaS · 15–25x for hypergrowth software · >30x demanding
Full explanation →
3.5x / 5.2x / 7.1x
EV / EBIT?EV / EBITDA — Enterprise value divided by earnings before interest, tax, depreciation, and amortization.
Why it matters: A classic "what would a private buyer pay" multiple — used in M&A. Strips out tax and capital-structure noise.
Reference: 8–12x for mature businesses · 15–25x for growth · Below 5x often signals distress
Full explanation →
18.7x / 22.9x / 49.0x

Bold middle number = median peer. Half the peers trade above it, half below. Computed over 8 peers (broad — see caveat); implausible multiples excluded.

Peer-implied value check
We're not showing a peer-implied price for STVN: with only 1 genuine same-industry comparable, a median built partly from broader-sector names would be misleading. Lean on the DCF and Reverse-DCF above; use the multiples table only as loose context.

⚠️ Important caveat: peer multiples only work if the peers are genuinely comparable. Always check the peer list below — if the auto-picker grabbed micro-caps or unrelated businesses, the comparison is noise. A medical-device giant priced against tiny biotech startups won't produce a useful signal.

▾ View peer list (8)
Ticker Company Industry Mcap EV/Sales EV/GPEV/EBIT FCF Yield
PLSE PULSE BIOSCIENCES, INC. Medical Devices $3.7B 10,592.4x —— —
TFX TELEFLEX INC Medical Devices ·fallback $5.7B 2.9x 5.2x49.0x 4.9%
NVST Envista Holdings Corp Medical Devices ·fallback $3.8B 1.9x 3.5x24.4x 5.4%
IRTC iRhythm Holdings, Inc. Medical Devices ·fallback $3.7B 5.0x 7.1x— 9.4%
SNN SMITH & NEPHEW PLC Medical Devices ·fallback $11.8B 2.4x 3.5x18.7x 6.9%
TMDX TransMedics Group, Inc. Medical Devices ·fallback $2.3B 3.8x 6.4x21.4x 3.6%
PEN Penumbra Inc Medical Devices ·fallback $12.5B 8.9x 13.3x66.2x 7.1%
XRAY DENTSPLY SIRONA Inc. Medical Devices ·fallback $2.1B 0.7x 1.3x— 3.4%

Bankruptcy + quality screens

Cheap stocks can be cheap for a reason. These screens warn when a low valuation comes paired with structural fragility.

Business quality
Middling
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Passes 5 of 9 checks
Bankruptcy score (Altman Z)
Very safe
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Z = 3.85
What these health ratings mean, in numbers

Business quality — Middling. Passes 5 of the 9 health checks we can measure — making a profit, turning it into cash, not piling on debt, not issuing shares. Across 131,000 company-quarters the weakest scorers went on to fail at 5.4% within a year against 1.4% for the strongest, and that held in every era and all twelve sectors. It says "less likely to break", not "likely to beat the market".

Bankruptcy score (Altman Z) — Very safe. Altman Z is 3.85. It combines working capital, retained earnings, operating profit and market value against total assets into one bankruptcy score. Above 3.0 is the safe zone, 1.8 to 3.0 is grey, below 1.8 is the distress zone. It was calibrated on manufacturers in 1968, so it reads asset-light and heavily-financed businesses badly — which is why it is one input here and never the verdict.

The workings
Altman Z-Score?Altman Z-Score — A bankruptcy-risk score combining 5 financial ratios into one number. Predictive of bankruptcy within 2 years.
Why it matters: Cheap-looking stocks (low P/E or P/B) often have low Z-scores because the market knows the company is dying. Z-score warns you before you fall into a value trap.
Reference: > 3.0 = safe zone · 1.81–3.0 = grey zone · < 1.81 = distress zone
Full explanation →
3.85
Safe zone

Safe zone under the classic Altman thresholds — companies scoring here have historically gone bankrupt only rarely within ~2 years. A screening signal, not a guarantee.

The classic Z-score was calibrated on manufacturers. It is less reliable for asset-light or non-manufacturing businesses (broadcasters, media, software, services) and not applicable to banks, REITs, or insurers — for those the coefficients and the asset-turnover term distort the result. Read it as one screening input, not a verdict.

Piotroski F-Score?Piotroski F-Score — A 9-point quality checklist scoring profitability, leverage, and operating efficiency.
Why it matters: High score = fundamentals improving. Low score = deteriorating. Especially powerful for filtering cheap stocks: cheap + high F-score historically outperforms; cheap + low F-score is often a value trap.
Reference: 7–9 = strong · 4–6 = mediocre · 0–3 = weak
Full explanation →
5 / 9
Mediocre
▾ The checks — what passed, what didn't (and what we couldn't measure)
  • ✓ Positive net income
    Net income $158.0M in FY2025.
  • ✓ Positive operating cash flow
    Operating cash flow $323.2M (was $168.6M the prior year).
  • ✓ Cash flow backs up reported profit
    Operating cash flow $323.2M vs net income $158.0M.
  • ✓ Return on assets improving
    Return on assets 5.3% vs 5.3% a year ago. Flat year-over-year — the point requires strict improvement, so it isn't awarded, but this is not deterioration.
  • ✗ Debt load (vs assets)
    Long-term debt is 17.9% of assets vs 17.7% a year ago ($534.8M of $2,989.2M assets).
    Why this matters: Rising debt relative to assets means more risk and more cash going to interest instead of shareholders. Falling debt is a sign of strengthening.
  • ✗ Short-term liquidity (current ratio)
    Current ratio 1.76x vs 1.84x a year ago.
    Why this matters: The current ratio compares assets it can turn to cash within a year against bills due within a year. Below 1.0 means it may struggle to cover near-term obligations.
  • ✗ Share count (dilution)
    Share count rose 0.7% (271.1M → 273.0M year-over-year).
    Why this matters: Issuing lots of new shares splits the pie into more pieces, shrinking your slice. Stable or falling share count protects existing owners.
  • ✓ Pricing power (gross margin)
    Gross margin 29.0% vs 27.4% a year ago.
  • ✗ Sales per asset (asset turnover)
    Asset turnover 0.45x vs 0.49x a year ago.
    Why this matters: Asset turnover measures how much revenue each dollar of assets generates. Rising = more productive use of the asset base.

Missing data is never counted as a pass or a fail — it's shown as n/a and excluded from the denominator. Each check compares the company against its own prior year.

What if you assume different inputs?

Here's where we land — and what happens if you change the assumptions. Drag the sliders to set your own Discount Rate?Discount Rate — The annual return you demand for taking single-stock risk instead of buying a safe Treasury or index fund.
Why it matters: Higher discount rate = stricter valuation (a stock has to produce more cash to be worth holding). Lower = more generous.
Reference: 8–12% is standard · 9–10% matches S&P 500 historical return · Below 7% is illogical for single-stock risk
Full explanation →
(the annual return you demand for single-stock risk) and terminal growth; the value updates live so you can see whether the stock looks cheaper or richer. The discount rate starts at 10.1%, the figure our model used for STVN. Open Advanced to also change beta, growth and the rate path.

Note: the calculator opens at our published value of $9.88 — it is initialised to the same scenario-weighted result, so the two match exactly on load. The moment you move a slider, the value below becomes a single-path what-if at your assumptions (not the three-scenario weighting), which is why it can differ from the headline once you've touched it.

Scenario-weighted model IV (40/35/25 assumed weights)
$9.88
It trades at
$19.40
Premium to model IV
+96.4%
Price is 96% above model IV — it looks overvalued. Change the assumptions below to see what would justify today's price.
We value this stock at two discount rates and report the range between them:
10.1% — beta-based (CAPM), from this stock's Beta?Beta — How much the stock moves when the overall market moves. 1.0 = moves with the market; 1.5 = moves 50% more than the market.
Why it matters: Higher beta = more volatile = should demand higher discount rate. Low beta stocks (utilities, consumer staples) move less.
Reference: Most stocks 0.5–1.5 · Defensives ~0.3 · High-vol tech ~1.5–2.0
Full explanation →
of 1.02.
The safe Treasury rate plus a premium scaled by how much more (or less) volatile the stock is than the market.
9.5% — sector/quality tier. A simpler hurdle set by industry and business durability: lower for stable, wide-moat companies; higher for speculative or micro-caps.
The headline value and this calculator start at 10.1% — the beta-based rate. Drag the slider to the other rate to see the full range.
4.5% (risk-free)9-10% normal18% (deep-risk)
0%2-3% (GDP)5% (rarely sustainable)
Value at your assumptions (opens at our published value; becomes a single-path what-if once you move a slider)
$9.88
vs today's $19.40
+96.4%

At the default assumptions the flat path lands near our published value of $9.88. Move any slider to recompute it with your own.

For comparison — the FCF growth today's price already assumes
+8.1%
at the default assumptions

Move any slider above to recompute this against your own assumptions.

⚙ Advanced — tinker with every input (beta, growth, rate path, margin → full intrinsic value)
Where the discount rate comes from — discount rate = risk-free + beta × equity-risk-premium
What you'd earn risk-free from government bonds — the floor under every other rate. Slide it down to model the market expecting rate cuts (value rises); up for higher-for-longer.
The extra yearly return investors demand for owning stocks instead of safe bonds — the price of risk. History runs ~4.5–6.5%; we default to 5.5% (slightly conservative). It's an estimate, not a law — lower it if you think equities are less risky than that.
Inflation reduces the purchasing power of a nominal return: a 9% gain at 3% inflation is about 6% in real terms. The intrinsic value above is already in today's dollars (a nominal DCF carries inflation in both the growth and the discount rate), so this switch does not change the value — it restates the return in real terms.
Higher beta → higher discount rate (sets the rate above). 1.0 = moves with the market.
What you think STVN can grow FCF for ~5 years, then fades to terminal.
All inputs start at the values our model used.

    Copy shareable link to this scenario →

    Price$19.40
    Model IV$9.88
    Premium to IV+96.4%
    DCF applicabilityLow
    Return to IV (3yr, annualized)-20.1%

    STVN is well above the model value; the price is 96.4% above intrinsic value?Intrinsic Value — Our DCF model's estimate of what each share is mathematically worth based on projected cash flows.
    Why it matters: Compare to current price. Below IV = potentially undervalued. Above IV = priced for growth that must actually happen.
    Reference: Model-derived; quality depends on data and assumptions.
    Full explanation →
    (a 96.4% premium). The market appears to be paying for consistent profitability and positive operating cash flow, despite compressing gross margins. The market may be assigning value to the potential for new drug pipeline catalysts, which is not in the model. The biggest risk that our model's base assumptions prove too high is if the long-term debt continues RISING from $534.8 million, impacting future free cash flow?Free Cash Flow (FCF) — Operating cash flow minus capital spending: cash left after a company covers operating costs, taxes and interest and reinvests in the business — but BEFORE repaying debt principal or paying dividends. The cash actually available to investors.
    Why it matters: A company can show big profits on paper while burning through cash. FCF is what actually fills the bank account.
    Reference: Healthy mature businesses convert 8–15% of revenue into FCF · Growth companies often negative
    Full explanation →
    .

    ⚠️ Revenue/margin projection model used - trailing FCF may understate growth runway at current scale.

    As of 18 days ago

    Anatomy of a share

    What you're buying per share. Bars are at the same scale so you can see the relative size of revenue, costs, cash flow, and debt — not just read them in a table.

    STVN Stevanato Group S.p.A. stock anatomy showing per-share revenue, operating expenses, free cash flow, and debt
    11.8%
    profit
    Where each $1 of revenue goes
    Net profit — 11.8¢ of every dollar ($0.58/sh — latest fiscal-year net income per share)
    Costs & taxes — 88.2¢ (on $4.91 revenue/sh)
    Net margin = net income ÷ revenue (most recent fiscal year).
    Plain English: each share (at $19) represents $4.91 of revenue per share per year, $0.58 of net income per current share, and $0.09 of owner-earnings free cash flow per current share (latest fiscal year) from the latest fiscal year. Each share carries $1.96 of total debt (interest-bearing borrowings, current + long-term). The DCF does not start from that single year — it instead starts from a projected from revenue × terminal margin of $1.01 per share to capture a full cycle.
    What's free cash flow / what do these mean?

    Revenue per share — how much the business earns from customers, divided by the number of shares outstanding. Top of the income statement.

    Earnings per share — profit left after operating costs, interest, and taxes, per share. Two versions appear on this page and are not interchangeable: GAAP diluted EPS uses the company's weighted-average diluted share count during the reporting period (this is the "earnings" in "price-to-earnings"); net income per current share divides annual net income by today's share count. They differ whenever the share count has changed.

    Owner-earnings free cash flow per share — the cash the business produces for shareholders. Savng's owner-earnings FCF subtracts capital expenditures and stock-based compensation from operating cash flow (SBC is a real dilution cost even though it's non-cash). This is deliberately more conservative than "standard" FCF, which subtracts only capital expenditures — so our figure is lower than the headline FCF you'll see elsewhere. FCF funds dividends, buybacks, debt repayment, and acquisitions; a company can report positive earnings yet negative FCF.

    Debt per share — total interest-bearing borrowings divided by shares. High debt-per-share next to thin FCF-per-share is a fragility signal.

    What you actually need to decide

    Every stock price is a disagreement. Here's the single thing that must go right for the bulls, the single thing that breaks the thesis, and the concrete signposts to watch so you can update your view as real results arrive.

    🐂 The Bull Case
    Underlying cash flow must continue to grow around the modeled business rate of +7.6% annually, while the company effectively manages its RISING long-term debt of $534.8 million.
    🐻 The Bear Case
    The biggest operating risk is that gross margin, which is already COMPRESSING from 31.4% to 29%, continues to deteriorate, negatively impacting net income and free cash flow?Free Cash Flow (FCF) — Operating cash flow minus capital spending: cash left after a company covers operating costs, taxes and interest and reinvests in the business — but BEFORE repaying debt principal or paying dividends. The cash actually available to investors.
    Why it matters: A company can show big profits on paper while burning through cash. FCF is what actually fills the bank account.
    Reference: Healthy mature businesses convert 8–15% of revenue into FCF · Growth companies often negative
    Full explanation →
    after stock comp, which was $25.2 million latest.
    📌 Signposts to watch — update your view as these print
    • Gross margin trend in upcoming quarters
    • Changes in long-term debt levels
    • Operating cash flow generation

    The trend, in plain numbers (FY2024 → FY2025, latest reported)

    Straight from the financial statements — no model, no opinion. For a small or unprofitable company, the direction of these numbers usually tells you more than any single valuation.

    ✅ Improving
    • Revenue grew +12% to $1.34B.
    • Free cash flow turned positive at $25.2M.
    • Gross margin improved to 29% (+2 pts).
    • Net income grew +24% to $158.0M.

    Nothing was clearly worsening year-over-year.

    Management & Leadership

    Franco Stevanato serves as the Chief Executive Officer, and Lago Marco Dal is the Chief Financial Officer. Mauro Stocchi also holds an officer position within the company. The company's leadership team is focused on its core business as indicated by their titles in recent SEC filings.

    Franco Stevanato
    Chief Executive Officer (per SEC Form 3, 2026-03-18)

    Chief Executive Officer

    Lago Marco Dal
    Chief Financial Officer (per SEC Form 4, 2026-08-10)

    Chief Financial Officer

    Mauro Stocchi
    See Remarks (per SEC Form 4, 2026-06-26)
    Elisabetta Magistretti
    Director (per SEC Form 4, 2026-08-10)
    Luciano Santel
    Director (per SEC Form 4, 2026-08-10)
    Sue-Jean Lin
    Director (per SEC Form 4, 2026-06-26)

    What They Make

    Stevanato Group S.p.A. manufactures and supplies pharmaceutical primary packaging, such as glass vials and cartridges, and provides integrated solutions and services to the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. Pharmaceutical and biotech companies are their primary paying customers.

    End Markets

    PharmaceuticalsBiotechnologyMedical Devices

    Revenue Drivers

    Glass primary packaging sales
    Integrated solutions
    Engineering services
    Market Cap: 5.3BBeta: 1.02

    Why Is It Priced Like This?

    Why Customers Pay

    High-quality pharmaceutical packaging
    Integrated drug delivery solutions
    Specialized engineering services
    Intrinsic Value$9.88
    Premium to IV +96.4%
    Return to IV (3yr, annualized) -20.1%

    The market prices STVN at a premium of +96.4% to the model's intrinsic value?Intrinsic Value — Our DCF model's estimate of what each share is mathematically worth based on projected cash flows.
    Why it matters: Compare to current price. Below IV = potentially undervalued. Above IV = priced for growth that must actually happen.
    Reference: Model-derived; quality depends on data and assumptions.
    Full explanation →
    , likely due to its consistent profitability (net income POSITIVE latest, profitable 5/5 yrs) and positive operating cash flow (positive 5/5 yrs). The market may also be assigning value to the potential for regulatory wins for utilities, which is not in the model. This optimism persists despite gross margin COMPRESSING from 31.4% to 29% and long-term debt RISING from $249M to $534.8 million.

    Three Scenarios, Weighted
    ScenarioIVUpside from today's priceWeight
    Conservative$8.07-58.4%40%
    Base$10.09-48.0%35%
    Optimistic$12.49-35.6%25%
    Weighted$9.88-49.1%100%

    Reading the last column: it is the move from today's price to each value (IV ÷ price − 1). The headline "premium/discount to model IV" measures the same gap from the value's side (price ÷ IV − 1), so the two percentages differ in size and sign by construction — e.g. a price 8% above value is a value 7.4% below price.

    Business Model & Valuation

    How They Make Money

    Selling pharmaceutical glass containers
    Providing integrated drug delivery systems
    Offering engineering and technical services

    The company's long-term debt is RISING to $534.8 million, indicating reliance on debt financing, with no specific dividend or buyback rates available from current data.

    Growth / Revenue DCF Low

    Low FCF conversion (8% of operating CF) with high valuation (P/FCF 261x): revenue/margin growth model more appropriate.

    ▾ Why is DCF applicability "Low" for STVN?
    A "Low" score means an FCF-DCF is a weaker fit for this business — not that the number is wrong, but that it deserves more skepticism. The specific drivers here:
    • The latest single-year FCF sits materially below the normalized figure the model uses, a sign of cyclicality.
    • Individual business-segment drivers are not forecast separately — the model works off consolidated cash flow only.

    Because of this, we headline the more conservative discount rate and urge you to weight the reverse-DCF, leverage, and operating trends alongside the DCF.

    In plain English: we estimate STVN's value by projecting its owner-earnings free cash flow (operating cash flow minus capital expenditure and stock-based compensation) into the future and converting it back to what it's worth today. We start from $1.01 per share (projected from revenue × terminal margin), assume it grows 7.6% per year for about 5 years (then gradually fades), and discount everything at 10.1% — the yearly return a buyer should demand for this much risk. After that it's assumed to grow 3.0% per year forever (roughly the long-run pace of the whole economy). A higher discount rate or slower growth means a lower value, and vice-versa — change any of these yourself in the calculator above.
    Owner-earnings FCF / share$1.01projected from revenue × terminal margin — smoothed, not the latest single year
    Growth (g₁) — 5yr7.6%Source: historical CAGR + sector defaults
    Discount Rate (r)10.1%
    Terminal Growth (gT)3.0%
    Show advanced inputs
    Revenue Growth7.6%

    What this model does NOT do: this is a consolidated owner-earnings cash-flow model. Standalone segment assumptions: none. It does not project its revenue segments independently; their combined effect is embedded in the historical revenue and cash-flow trend the model extrapolates. The calculator above can only approximate a segment's impact through the single consolidated growth rate — it cannot model any one line separately. For a true segment-level view, build a separate model from the company's segment disclosures.

    Maturity & Competitive Position

    Growth / re-investment phase

    Moat Signals

    Specialized manufacturing capabilities
    Regulatory compliance expertise
    Established customer relationships

    Revenue is growing at 7.6%/yr over 4 years, from $998M to $1.3 billion.

    Geography & Markets

    Geographic Risks

    Reliance on pharmaceutical industry R&D cycles

    Market Signals

    These are timing signals, not value signals — they describe the stock's recent price behavior, not what the business is worth. Use them for the "the thesis looks good, but is now the moment?" question. Each tile below explains what it's saying.

    Model bearish, tape bullish - divergence suggests timing risk.
    RSI?RSI — Relative Strength Index — a 0-100 momentum gauge. Above 70 = overbought; below 30 = oversold.
    Why it matters: Short-term contrarian indicator. Extreme readings often precede mean reversion, though not always.
    Reference: 30–70 normal · >70 overbought · <30 oversold
    Full explanation →
    (14)
    54.3NeutralMomentum is balanced — neither overbought nor oversold.
    MACD?MACD — Moving Average Convergence Divergence — compares a fast and a slow price trend to gauge momentum direction.
    Why it matters: When the fast line crosses above the slow line, short-term momentum is turning up; below, turning down. A timing cue, not a value signal.
    Reference: Line above signal = bullish momentum · below = bearish
    Full explanation →
    BullishLine above signalThe fast trend is above the slow trend — short-term momentum is currently upward.
    50-Day Average$20.85Price below (-7.0%)Price below its 50-day average = near-term downtrend.
    200-Day Average$18.26Price aboveThe 200-day line is the long-term trend divider — above it is generally considered a bull market for the stock.
    50 vs 200 CrossGolden50-day above 200-dayA "golden cross" — the medium trend has overtaken the long trend (often read as bullish).

    Technicals describe price, not the business. A great company can have a "bearish" tape (a buying chance) and a weak one a "bullish" tape (a trap). Pair these with the valuation and health sections above.

    Data Quality & Risk Flags (2 notes — click to expand/collapse)

    Guardrail Notes (2)
    • Revenue/margin projection model used - trailing FCF may understate growth runway at current scale.
    • Foreign private issuer (files 20-F): the share count is the ordinary-share count from the filing and the ADS-to-ordinary ratio for this listing is not on file. Market cap and per-share figures assume 1 ADS = 1 ordinary share and may be off by the true ratio.

    Financial Statements (5-year tables — click to expand)

    From Stevanato Group S.p.A.'s SEC filings (EDGAR).

    Income (5yr)

    YearRevenueNet IncomeEPS
    20251.3B158.0M$0.58
    20241.2B127.5M$0.47
    20231.2B157.5M$0.59
    20221.0B150.6M$0.57
    2021998.3M158.8M$0.63

    Cash Flow (5yr)

    YearOperating CFCapEx− SBCFree Cash Flow
    2025 323.2M 297.9M — 25.2M
    2024 168.6M 327.6M — -158.9M
    2023 113.8M 468.4M 1.5M -356.2M
    2022 108.8M 247.6M — -138.7M
    2021 157.7M 127.4M — 30.3M

    How we define FCF: operating cash flow − capital expenditure − stock-based compensation (owner-earnings basis — SBC is a real cost to shareholders even though it's non-cash). This is the same owner-earnings FCF definition the valuation model uses, though the DCF's starting value is a projected from revenue × terminal margin, not this single year.

    Balance Sheet

    Total Assets3.0B
    Total Liabilities1.2B
    Equity1.7B
    Total Debt534.8M

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    Methodology by Pouyan Golshani, MD — founder of Gighz. Savng was built by a physician for busy professionals: every number on this page comes from SEC filings (EDGAR) and FINRA data through transparent, rules-based models — no analyst opinions, no hidden inputs. How we calculate every number →

    The questions people ask about STVN

    Is Stevanato Group S.p.A. (STVN) a good stock to buy?

    Stevanato Group S.p.A. (STVN) looks expensive against its own cash flows: the price is about 96% above our $9.88 estimate. Whether it is a good buy depends on whether the company can grow faster than that price assumes, on its financial health, and on what insiders are doing. All three are on this page. This is educational research from SEC filings, not investment advice.

    Is Stevanato Group S.p.A. (STVN) overvalued?

    Yes, by our measure. Stevanato Group S.p.A. (STVN) trades at $19.40, about 96% above our estimate of $9.88 for what the business is worth. This is educational research from SEC filings, not investment advice.

    What is STVN's intrinsic value?

    Our model estimates STVN is worth about $9.88 per share, built from the cash the business is expected to generate, taken from its SEC filings. The market price is $19.40.

    What growth is priced into STVN?

    Working backwards from today's price, the market expects STVN's cash flow per share to grow by roughly 6.9% a year over the next five years. Compare that with the company's actual record on this page.

    Where do these numbers come from?

    From Stevanato Group S.p.A.'s own SEC filings (10-K and 10-Q), Form 4 insider filings and daily market prices. Every figure on the page links to how it was calculated, and the model's weak spots are listed next to its results.

    ⚠️ Not investment advice. Automated model outputs, last refreshed 18 days ago (the analysis-refresh date, not the latest filing period). All models have blind spots. Full disclaimer →
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