SBC Treatment
For those who are actually at funds, how do you model SBC?
The correct way to treat it is obviously as a real expense that shouldn't be removed from earnings or FCF/OCF. However, one point I am unsure about is how to treat the tax considerations. When doing comps the proper way, for operating EBITDA, you can take Adj. EBITDA and subtract SBC since taxes are excluded. But when calculating net income, is the proper way to do adjusted net income - SBC or adjusted net income - SBC * (1-tax rate or cash tax rate)?
I am unfamiliar with all the tax nuances around SBC, so if anyone has good ways to think about this it would be appreciated. I would think some of the ex. PE guys on here have good takes?
Pretty sure it's a non-cash expense and you do exclude it from FCF but you account for it in the form of dilution by estimating effect on FDSO.
I think OP is talking about this in the context of comps analysis where it would be a bit unwieldy to try to estimate future SBC-related dilution to incorporate in current TEV / FD Market Cap figures
My entire post is pretty clearly saying that the corporate finance definition if plain wrong for how SBC is treated… I understand how it works in modern finance definitions but those definitions obfuscate the real economics of a business.
I think SBC should be moved to the CFF section of the cash flow statement and therefore I exclude it from FCF. You have to both expense it and dilute share count if you are modeling a company out (assuming you model capital allocation as those on the buyside should).
My question was related to the tax effects, I currently do adjusted net income * (1-nongaap tax rate)/ DSO to get to a real economic EPS number. I wanted to see if anyone had a better way of looking at the tax effects. Like is it better to use cash tax rate?
When looking at earnings metics, ensure tax-affected SBC is deducted. Can look at gaap to non-gaap net income walks from the company for reference. For FCF metrics, I look at FCF - SBC.
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