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Who We Are Founded in 1996, Mister Car Wash, Inc. is the largest national car wash brand, with 548 locations in 21 states, as of December 31, 2025. Primarily offering express exterior cleaning services, we provide the highest quality car wash, ensuring our customers a quick and convenient experience, which we call the Mister Experience.
$7.10
+$0.00 (+0.00%)
Price from 41 days ago
19.04% operating margin is respectable but not wide. ROIC at 5.63%. Suggests the business covers its cost of capital, but doesn't point to a wide moat.
Revenue grew 5.7%, steady but not accelerating.
Net debt of $1.74B represents 57.5x FCF, leverage limits flexibility.
21.5x earnings, 77.0x FCF. Valuation is in a reasonable range. The main question is whether the business can re-accelerate or if current trajectory is already priced in.
Based on TTM earnings · Diluted shares
Profitability & Returns
Revenue (TTM)
$1.07B
▲ +5.7% YoY
Net Income (TTM)
$110M
▲ +46.8% YoY
Op. Margin
19.31%
▲ +1.0pp YoY
ROIC
5.74%
▲ +0.3pp YoY
Cash Flow & Balance Sheet
FCF (TTM)
$31M
▲ +137.2% YoY
Op. Cash Flow (TTM)
$278M
▲ +14.9% YoY
Net Debt
$1.70B
Cash & Equiv.
$55M
5Y CAGR: +12.8%
5Y CAGR: -6.8%
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At a P/E of 21.5 and a price-to-free-cash-flow of 77.0, Mister Car Wash (MCW) trades above a two-stage DCF intrinsic value of about $-3.48 per share, so at $7.10 the stock looks overvalued (149.1% above estimated intrinsic value). A high multiple is not the same as overvalued: fast-growing, high-quality businesses can deserve a premium. See the general approach in how to tell if a stock is overvalued.
On quality, Mister Car Wash scores 28/100 on Intrinsiqq's quality scorecard (a lower-quality business on these measures), weighing growth, margins, returns on capital, share count, and balance-sheet strength. All figures are computed from SEC filings; read the full methodology. This is analysis, not investment advice.
Intrinsiqq's two-stage DCF estimates an intrinsic value of about $-3.48 per share for MCW, projecting its recent free cash flow forward with a growth rate that fades toward a long-run rate and discounting it back to today. Applying a 25% margin of safety gives a more conservative fair-value entry around $-2.61. At today's $7.10, that puts the stock about 149.1% above estimated intrinsic value. The result is sensitive to the growth and discount-rate inputs, so it is best to run conservative, base and optimistic cases. You can adjust all of them yourself with the sliders on the DCF tab.
Mister Car Wash scores 28 out of 100 on Intrinsiqq's quality score, a weighted blend of 8 metrics each scored 0 to 100, which makes it a lower-quality business on these measures. Recent fundamentals include a 19.3% operating margin and a 5.7% return on invested capital. The score weighs revenue and free-cash-flow growth, operating margins, return on invested capital, share-count change, and balance-sheet strength, all computed from SEC filings, not opinion. Because valuation only means something relative to quality, the full metric-by-metric breakdown is on the quality scorecard.
That depends on valuation and quality together, not either alone. MCW currently trades above its estimated intrinsic value and scores 28/100 on quality (lower-quality). A cheap price is only a bargain if the business is durable, and a premium can be justified by genuine quality, so the two questions, "is it cheap?" and "is it good?", only make sense side by side. Read the valuation against the quality scorecard, run the DCF on your own assumptions, and decide for yourself. This is analysis from SEC filings, not investment advice.