RUN · Industrials(construction - special trade contractors) · 10 years of annual accounts filed with the SEC · latest fiscal year ended 2025-12-31
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Sunrun Inc. reported revenue of $3.0 billion in fiscal 2025, after growing 21.0% a year over the previous 9 years. Its operating margin widened from -34.0% in 2017 to -4.3%, and it earned -0.8% on its invested capital in the latest year. On the accounting screens, it passes 4 of 8 Piotroski tests and its Altman Z'' of -0.16 is in the distress zone; 2 of the six cross-checks between its statements fire.
Revenue, fiscal 20253.0B+21.0% a year over 9 years
Operating margin-4.3%gross margin —
Return on invested capital-0.8%-9.4% on average over 5 years
Free cash flow—
Net debt ÷ EBITDA-153.2×net debt 13.5B
Piotroski F-score4/8tests of improvement passed
Is it growing?
Revenue and the operating income it turns into. Growth that does not reach operating income is growth bought with margin.
RevenueOperating income
-4.0B-2.0B02.0B4.0B
2017Revenue 532.5MOperating income -181.1M
2018Revenue 760.0MOperating income -121.9M
2019
2019Revenue 858.6MOperating income -215.7M
2020Revenue 922.2MOperating income -465.1M
2021Revenue 1.6BOperating income -666.2M
2022Revenue 2.3BOperating income -662.2M
2023Revenue 2.3BOperating income -2.0B
2024Revenue 2.0BOperating income -3.7B
2025Revenue 3.0BOperating income -126.1M
2017201820192019202020212022202320242025
Compound growth a year
3 yrs
5 yrs
9 yrs
Revenue
+8.4%
+26.2%
+21.0%
Net income
+37.4%
—
+15.2%
Earnings per share
+29.1%
—
+4.4%
Shares
+6.5%
+13.6%
+10.4%
Falling shares are buybacks: each remaining share owns more of the company.
Does it earn more than its capital costs?
Margins say how much of each sale is kept; return on invested capital says how much the business earns on the money it needs to operate. Growth only creates value when that return is above the cost of the capital.
Needs a cost of capital, which comes from the valuation below.
Return on equity
14.4%
Return on assets
2.0%
Asset turnover
0.13×
Research & development
1.2% of revenue
Overheads (SG&A)
9.4% of revenue
Is the profit cash, and where does the cash go?
Net income is an accounting opinion; free cash flow is what was left in the bank after investing. Stock-based pay does not leave the bank — shareholders pay it through dilution — so it is shown taken off as well.
Net incomeFree cash flowAfter stock-based pay
-3.0B-2.0B-1.0B01.0B
2017Net income 125.5MFree cash flow -104.1MAfter stock-based pay -126.1M
2018Net income 26.7MFree cash flow -67.4MAfter stock-based pay -95.3M
2019
2019Net income 26.3MFree cash flow -229.8MAfter stock-based pay -256.1M
2020Net income -173.4MFree cash flow -321.1MAfter stock-based pay -491.7M
2021Net income -79.4MFree cash flow -825.8MAfter stock-based pay -1.0B
2022Net income 173.4MFree cash flow -867.0MAfter stock-based pay -977.6M
2023Net income -1.6BFree cash flow -841.7MAfter stock-based pay -953.5M
2024Net income -2.8BFree cash flow -767.7MAfter stock-based pay -880.5M
2025Net income 449.9M
2017201820192019202020212022202320242025
Per share
Earnings per shareFree cash flow per shareDividend per share
$-15.00$-10.00$-5.00$0.00$5.00
2017Earnings per share $1.16Free cash flow per share $-0.96
2018Earnings per share $0.23Free cash flow per share $-0.58
2019
2019Earnings per share $0.21Free cash flow per share $-1.86
2020Earnings per share $-1.24Free cash flow per share $-2.30
2021Earnings per share $-0.39Free cash flow per share $-4.03
2022Earnings per share $0.79Free cash flow per share $-3.96
2023Earnings per share $-7.41Free cash flow per share $-3.89
2024Earnings per share $-12.81Free cash flow per share $-3.45
2025Earnings per share $1.70
2017201820192019202020212022202320242025
Shares outstanding
Diluted shares
100.0M150.0M200.0M250.0M300.0M
2017Diluted shares 108.2M
2018Diluted shares 117.1M
2019
2019Diluted shares 123.9M
2020Diluted shares 139.6M
2021Diluted shares 205.1M
2022Diluted shares 219.2M
2023Diluted shares 216.6M
2024Diluted shares 222.2M
2025Diluted shares 264.5M
2017201820192019202020212022202320242025
How strong is the balance sheet?
Debt is not bad in itself; debt the business cannot service in a bad year is. Net debt is debt minus cash, and below zero the company holds more cash than it owes.
Net debt
05.0B10.0B15.0B
2017Net debt 1.1B
2018Net debt 1.4B
2019
2019Net debt 1.9B
2020Net debt 4.1B
2021Net debt 5.7B
2022Net debt 7.4B
2023Net debt 9.7B
2024Net debt 12.0B
2025Net debt 13.5B
2017201820192019202020212022202320242025
Net debt ÷ EBITDA
-153.2×
Interest coverage
— operating income ÷ interest
Current ratio
1.66 current assets ÷ current liabilities
Cash conversion cycle
— collects in 32d
Three classic screens of the accounts
Each asks a different question of the same statements — is it improving, does it look like a company heading for distress, do the accounts resemble ones that were manipulated. None is a verdict; each shows what moves it.
Piotroski F-score
Is the business improving? Nine yes-or-no tests, this year against last.
4of 8 tests passed
✓ProfitableReturn on assets above zeropassed
✕Cash from operationsOperating cash flow above zerofailed
✓Profitability improvedReturn on assets higher than a year beforepassed
✕Profit backed by cashOperating cash flow above net income (low accruals)failed
✕Less long-term debtLong-term debt as a share of assets fellfailed
✓More liquidCurrent ratio higher than a year beforepassed
✕No new sharesShare count did not growfailed
–Better gross marginGross margin higher than a year before — not reportedno data
✓Sells more per assetAsset turnover higher than a year beforepassed
Where it misleads: it measures change, not level. An excellent business that stood still for a year scores low; a poor one recovering from a disaster scores high.
Altman Z''-score
Does the balance sheet look like those of companies that went bankrupt?
-0.16distress zone
1.12.6
Working capital ÷ assets 0.04 × 6.56+0.25
Retained earnings ÷ assets -0.17 × 3.26-0.55
Operating income ÷ assets -0.01 × 6.72-0.04
Equity ÷ liabilities 0.18 × 1.05+0.19
Where it misleads: buybacks. A company that returns so much cash that its equity turns small or negative sinks the last two ratios without being anywhere near bankruptcy. Banks and insurers do not fit the model at all.
Beneish M-score
Do the accounts resemble those of companies that manipulated their earnings?
The accounts lack too many of the lines it needs.
Where the statements disagree
Cross-checks between the income statement, the balance sheet and the cash flow for the latest year, each with the benign reading and the worrying one.
Reported profit comfortably exceeds the cash generated (450M against -421M).
Benign
Growth consuming working capital, or the seasonality of the year-end.
Worrying
Profit held up by accounting entries that do not turn into money.
The effective tax rate is -14.2%.
Benign
A favourable geographic mix, or legitimate tax credits.
Worrying
Not sustainable; projecting it forward inflates the valuation.
What is it worth, under which assumptions?
A company is worth the cash it will generate, brought back to today. This model projects revenue with growth that fades over the years, applies a free cash flow margin, and discounts the result at the cost of capital. Every assumption says where it came from, and all of them can be changed.
With a free cash flow margin at or below zero in year ten, the business never generates cash for its owners and a DCF says nothing useful. Set a positive margin for year ten to see what it would take.
What it has filed lately
The last twelve months at the SEC, most important first: annual and quarterly reports, events, large holders and insiders.
Every Form 4 filed in the last twelve months, read line by line: 6 filings by 5 people. Open-market purchases and sales are counted apart from awards, option exercises and shares withheld for taxes.
Bought on the open market—none in the period
Sold on the open market$1.2M6 sale(s) by 5 insider(s)
Under pre-arranged plans33%of the sales followed a 10b5-1 plan set months earlier
A Form 4 says what happened, when, how many shares and at what price. It does not say why: a sale can be diversification, a tax bill or a plan fixed months earlier, and an award is pay, not a purchase. Nothing here is a reason to buy or sell anything.
Which large funds report holding it
From the Form 13F of the 28 institutions followed on this site, as of the end of their last reported quarter. A 13F is filed up to 45 days later and shows only long positions in US-listed shares.
Accounts from the company's own SEC filings; lines some companies do not report are shown as a dash rather than estimated. The risk-free rate is the 10-year US Treasury yield. A DCF is a way of making assumptions explicit, not a forecast: it states what the company would be worth if the assumptions held. The scores are screens that point where to look, not verdicts. Nothing here is a recommendation to buy or sell.