Market Pulse59Neutral

Mercury Systems, Inc.Opportunity Rank #265(MRCY) Intrinsic Value & DCF Analysis (2026)

Sector: Industrials

Current Price

$88.06

Last updated: May 08, 2026

Price vs Intrinsic Value

$88.06
Price
$28.60
Intrinsic Value
Overvalued by 68%MOS: $22.88

Fundamental Score

11/100
Bearish

Weighted across 6 signals

Narrative Score

61/100
Improving

No change vs previous

Trend Score

73/100
Strong

As of 2026-05-08

The intrinsic value of Mercury Systems, Inc. (MRCY) is estimated at $28.60 per share based on a 10-year discounted cash flow (DCF) analysis. At the current price of $88.06, the stock appears overvalued relative to its projected cash flow fundamentals. This estimate assumes a 5.89% long-term growth rate and a 10.00% discount rate (calculated: 7.30%), reflecting expected future free cash flow and cost of capital.

The intrinsic value of Mercury Systems, Inc. (MRCY) is estimated at $28.60 per share based on a 10-year discounted cash flow (DCF) analysis. At the current price of $88.06, the stock appears overvalued relative to its projected cash flow fundamentals. This estimate assumes a 5.89% long-term growth rate and a 10.00% discount rate (calculated: 7.30%), reflecting expected future free cash flow and cost of capital.

Valuation Details

$28.60
-67.52% downside
20% margin of safety: $22.88
Years: 10Growth Rate: 5.89%
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Capital Efficiency

Average Quarterly ROIC
0.13%
Cost of Capital (estimated)8%
Value StatusUnderperforming Capital

The company is earning below its required return. This may indicate inefficient use of capital or excess cash that isn't being reinvested.

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Fundamental Details

11/100
BearishWeighted across 6 signals
DCF Discount
67.5% premium to price
0
FCF Yield
2.3% trailing FCF yield
8
ROIC vs WACC
ROIC 0.1% vs WACC 8.0% (0.0x)
1
Net Debt / FCF
2.5x net debt to FCF
15
Buybacks
Share count shrinking
80
FCF CAGR (5Y)
-2.6% 5Y FCF CAGR (adjusted)
0
Strengths: Buybacks. Concerns: DCF Discount, FCF Yield.

Narrative Details

61/100
Improving
Vs 6-Month Baseline:High (95th pct)Weighted across 4 recent drivers
Trend: Improving upConfidence: 71%Updated: 17h ago
Sources: 20 (18 News · 2 Analyst)
Drivers(last 30 days)
Earnings beat+0.5
14 news sentiment+0.5
3 regulatory scrutiny+0.1
2 analyst reiterations0.0

Trend Details

73/100
StrongAs of 2026-05-08311 daily bars used
Price vs 21 EMA+9.8%
Price vs 50 EMA+10.4%
Distance from 52-Week High-12.3%
Price vs 21 EMA91 · +9.8%
Price vs 50 EMA88 · +10.4%
21 EMA vs 50 EMA55 · +0.6%
3M RS vs SPY63 · +3.1%
6M RS vs SPY68 · +6.7%
Distance from 52W High75 · -12.3%

Investment Coach

Updated 21h ago
AVOIDConfidence: 83%
Thesis
Mercury Systems, Inc. is currently overvalued with its market price significantly exceeding the estimated fair value by 66.8%, supported by weak fundamentals and returns trailing its cost of capital. Despite a strong and improving narrative score, the company's financial performance and valuation metrics suggest caution.
Key Risk
The primary risk is that the company's returns on invested capital remain below its weighted average cost of capital, indicating potential value destruction.
Signals To Watch
  • Monitor if the stock price declines to at least a mid-teens discount to the estimated fair value.
  • Track the spread between ROIC and WACC for signs of sustained improvement.
  • Follow changes in the narrative trend for meaningful shifts in the fundamental score direction.
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Historical Growth Rates
Free Cash Flow- - -Trend CAGR: 5.89%5 Year CAGR: 69.55%

Free Cash Flow (in millions)

TTM20252024202320222021202020192018201720162015201420132012201120102009200820072006
$123$159$159$95$18$9$158$124$58$92$45$38$21$2$41$43$23$15$18-$2$35

How Intrinziq Estimates Fair Value

Intrinziq estimates Mercury Systems, Inc.'s intrinsic value using a discounted cash flow (DCF) model based on free cash flow trends and a market-based discount rate. The model projects future cash flows over ten years and discounts them using a market return assumption to estimate fair value.

Mercury Systems, Inc.Industrials

Mercury Systems, Inc., a technology company, manufactures and sells components, products, modules, and subsystems for aerospace and defense industries in the United States, Europe, and the Asia Pacific. Its products and solutions are deployed in approximately 300 programs with 25 defense contractors and commercial aviation customers. The company offers components, including power amplifiers and limiters, switches, oscillators, filters, equalizers, digital and analog converters, chips, monolithic microwave integrated circuits, and memory and storage devices; modules and sub-assemblies, such as embedded processing modules and boards, switched fabric boards, digital receiver boards, multi-chip modules, integrated radio frequency and microwave multi-function assemblies, tuners, and transceivers, as well as graphics and video processing, and Ethernet and input-output boards; and integrated subsystems. It also designs and develops digital radio frequency memory units for various modern electronic warfare applications; radar environment simulation and test systems for defense and intelligence applications; and signals intelligence payloads and EO/IR technologies for small UAV platforms, as well as onboard UAV processor systems for real-time wide area motion imagery. The company was formerly known as Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. and changed its name to Mercury Systems, Inc. in November 2012. Mercury Systems, Inc. was incorporated in 1981 and is headquartered in Andover, Massachusetts.