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Build-A-Bear Workshop on earnings: earnings per share grow for a few years, then the stock trades at a normal price-to-earnings multiple.
Years to project
Growth of earnings per share
Earnings per share; starts at its own recent growth
Exit P/E
Starts at the average of its 5-year median P/E, today's and a mature 18
Your desired return
Margin of safety
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Your buy price
The expected return is measured from it; starts at today's price
How it's worked out
Today's earnings per share
Diluted, last twelve months, as filed
$4.32
Earnings in 2031
Grows 20.0% a year for 5 years
$10.75
Price in 2031
$10.75 × 11.0 P/E
$118.21
Worth today
÷ 1.10^5: your 10% a year, taken back out
$73.40
Plus dividends
$7.87 paid over 5 years, discounted the same way
+ $5.77
Fair value
The most you can pay and still earn 10% a year
$79.16
Buy below
Fair value minus your 25% margin of safety
$59.37
Paying $31.54 instead gives 31.9% a year. Every rule is on the methodology page.
Outcome
What your assumptions give, and the path from today's price.
Fair value
$79.16
Expected return
31.9% a year
Future price, 2031
$118.21
Buy below
$59.37
Price 60% below fair valuePrice $31.54, at your 10% return
Projection
Solid blue: the price at each year end. Dashed blue: from today's price to the 2031 price. Green: from the fair value, rising at your 10% a year to the same end point; buy at or below it and you earn at least that. Every rule is on the methodology page. A model, not a forecast or advice.
Build your own intrinsic value for Build-A-Bear Workshop Inc. Start from three cases based on the company's own filings, then change any number to match your view.
The default base case is 5× today's price. A gap that wide usually comes from unusual cash flow history, such as a jump from a low base or a gap in the reported figures, not from a real bargain or bubble. Check the free cash flow history below and set growth you believe before relying on it.
Conservative
$66.92
112% above the priceof $31.54
Buy below $50.19 for a 25% safety margin
Your assumptions
Base
$147.39
367% above the priceof $31.54
Buy below $110.54 for a 25% safety margin
Your assumptions
Optimistic
$279.51
786% above the priceof $31.54
Buy below $209.63 for a 25% safety margin
Your assumptions
Where today's price sits
Today's price falls outside the modelled range.
Verdict
Today's price sits below all three scenarios. That reading is only as reliable as the growth rates entered.
Base free cash flow
$40M
Latest annual
Historical FCF CAGR
+18.6%
Across 5 reported periods
Market implies
-3.8%
Growth needed at 8% WACC
Terminal value share
69%
Of the base case valuation
Growth needed to justify today's price
At a 8.0% discount rate, today's price already assumes -3.8% annual free cash flow growth for ten years. Your base case assumes 18.6%, so you are forecasting more growth than the price requires.
Curve holds terminal growth at 2.5%, years 6 to 10 at half the first-stage rate, and applies no safety margin.
Free cash flow history
The most recent period is the base every projection starts from. Compounded, that history is +18.6% a year.
Build-A-Bear Workshop (BBW) intrinsic value and fair value
The calculator grows one of Build-A-Bear Workshop's per-share figures (earnings, free cash flow, revenue, book value or dividends) for a few years, puts an exit multiple on it, and discounts the result back at the yearly return you want. The answers below use its starting inputs for BBW; this is analysis, not investment advice.
Frequently asked
What is Build-A-Bear Workshop's (BBW) intrinsic value?+
With Intrinsiqq's starting inputs, Build-A-Bear Workshop's fair value is about $79.16 a share, based on its earnings per share. That assumes earnings per share of $4.32 grows about 20.0% a year for 5 years, the stock then trades at 11.0 times earnings, and you want a 10.0% yearly return. On its other figures: free cash flow $70.18, revenue $56.14, dividends $22.93. Every input can be changed on the page; the result is a model, not a forecast.
Is Build-A-Bear Workshop overvalued?+
At $31.54, the price is 60% below that fair value of $79.16, and buying at today's price would return about 31.9% a year if those inputs hold. Whether that is cheap or dear depends on whether you believe the growth and the exit multiple, which is what the calculator lets you test. This is analysis from SEC filings, not investment advice.
What growth does the Build-A-Bear Workshop valuation assume?+
Earnings per share grows about 20.0% a year to start, its own recent growth per share (three years for a company not yet profitable, five otherwise), capped at 20%. The exit multiple starts at a default.
What is a good margin of safety for Build-A-Bear Workshop?+
A margin of safety is the cushion you want below the fair value before buying, in case the inputs are wrong. The calculator uses 25%, which puts the buy-below price at $59.37. Less predictable businesses deserve a wider cushion, or a higher desired return.
SourceFair value computed from the 10-Q filed 8 Sept 2026, covering the period ending 1 Aug 2026, as reported to the SEC. Data last refreshed 12 Oct 2026. How this is calculated.
Price from market data, last close as of 4 Nov 2026. Fiscal year ends Jan.
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Held by ETFs
BBW is in 32 US ETFs. The largest of them, with BBW's weight in each:
Avantis U.S. Small Cap Value ETFAVUV0.07%of the fund
Dimensional US Marketwide Value ETFDFUV0.00%of the fund
iShares Russell 2000 Growth ETFIWO0.02%of the fund
Vanguard Consumer Discretionary ETFVCR0.02%of the fund
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