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Planet Fitness, Inc.

PLNT · US · USD
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Market value—
Industry per SECServices-Membership Sports & Recreation Clubs
Price as of12 Oct 2026
Last financial year2025
Latest filing10-Q, 6 Aug 2026
Method version2.7.0
Years in the base11
Company quality, four grades from 0 to 5
Balance sheet3
Profitability4
Cash flow4
Growth5
Total points16 of 20
Share valuation, scored separately

No reliable range can be derived for this company. The reason is given below.

The key figures

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All values from audited annual reports filed with the US regulator SEC. No value is estimated, none smoothed.

GradePointsBasis
Balance sheet3/5Net debt to operating income 3.7× · Current ratio 2.1
How this grade is built
Net debt to operating income3.7×2/51: ≤ 5.0×2: ≤ 4.0×3: ≤ 3.0×4: ≤ 2.0×5: ≤ 1.0×Next step: at most 3.0× for grade 3
Current ratio2.14/51: ≥ 0.82: ≥ 1.03: ≥ 1.34: ≥ 1.85: ≥ 2.5Next step: at least 2.5 for grade 5
Mean 2 + 4 / 2 = 3.00, rounded 3
Profitability4/5Operating margin 29.8% · Return on equity not reported
How this grade is built
Operating margin29.8%4/51: ≥ 0.0%2: ≥ 5.0%3: ≥ 12.0%4: ≥ 20.0%5: ≥ 30.0%Next step: at least 30.0% for grade 5
Return on equitynot reported—1: ≥ 0.0%2: ≥ 5.0%3: ≥ 10.0%4: ≥ 18.0%5: ≥ 25.0%
Mean 4 / 1 = 4.00, rounded 4
Cash flow4/5Free cash flow to revenue 19.2% · Profit covered by cash flow 1.2× · Free cash flow positive 5 of 5 years
How this grade is built
Free cash flow to revenue19.2%4/51: ≥ 0.0%2: ≥ 5.0%3: ≥ 10.0%4: ≥ 18.0%5: ≥ 25.0%Next step: at least 25.0% for grade 5
Profit covered by cash flow1.2×4/51: ≥ 0.4×2: ≥ 0.6×3: ≥ 0.8×4: ≥ 1.0×5: ≥ 1.2×Next step: at least 1.2× for grade 5
Free cash flow positive5 of 5 years5/51: 1 of 52: 2 of 53: 3 of 54: 4 of 55: 5 of 5
Mean 4 + 4 + 5 / 3 = 4.33, rounded 4
Growth5/5Revenue growth per year 26.6% · Operating income per year 45.9%
How this grade is built
Revenue growth per year26.6%5/51: ≥ 0.0%2: ≥ 3.0%3: ≥ 8.0%4: ≥ 15.0%5: ≥ 25.0%
Operating income per year45.9%5/51: ≥ 0.0%2: ≥ 3.0%3: ≥ 8.0%4: ≥ 15.0%5: ≥ 25.0%
Mean 5 + 5 / 2 = 5.00, rounded 5

Each grade is the rounded mean of two or three key figures, each placed on a five-step scale. Open the derivation under a grade to see, for every figure, the measured value, the step it reached and what the next step would have required.

The valuation range

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No range is reported for this company. Not enough history.

Within the sector

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Rank 2 of 3 in the industry. No median: only 3 companies in this industry have a grade; it is shown from five upwards. The grades are absolute and are not normalised to the sector: in a weak industry a weak grade stays weak.

one place above
ONESPAWORLD HOLDINGS Ltd
OSW
16/20
one place below
Life Time Group Holdings, Inc.
LTH
10/20

The neighbours follow from the ranking alone, not from a judgement. More total points does not mean a company is the better investment, only that more quality rules are met. It says nothing about the price.

The series of figures

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Every figure comes from the annual report of that year and has not been revised afterwards. Amounts in USD.

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YearRevenueOperating profitFree cash flowEarnings per shareSharesNet debt
2015330.54 m72.10 m62.17 m——453.45 m
2016378.24 m115.66 m93.44 m——668.79 m
2017429.94 m147.54 m93.30 m——590.68 m
2018572.90 m184.04 m143.54 m——882.70 m
2019688.80 m233.08 m146.42 m——1.27 bn
2020406.62 m59.76 m-21.42 m——1.33 bn
2021587.02 m143.40 m135.22 m——1.21 bn
2022936.77 m230.08 m140.15 m——1.59 bn
20231.07 bn272.86 m194.27 m——1.63 bn
20241.18 bn324.20 m188.81 m——1.76 bn
20251.32 bn394.68 m254.75 m——2.03 bn

How durable the advantage is

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4 of 8 points, measured over 10 years (2016 to 2025). Classification: present.

FeaturePointsBasis
Return on capital, level1/3The company earns on average 11.1% of its assets per year as operating profit, measured over 10 years. Comparable companies are around 10%.
Return on capital, consistency2/36 of 10 years above 10%. Consistency is the real evidence, because anyone has one good year.
Pricing power—/2Gross profit is not reported separately in the filing.
Stability in a downturn1/2Operating margin averaging 29%. Tested in 2020 and 2022: 2020 15%, 2022 25%. Holding counts from two thirds of the company's own average.

What is measured is the trace of a moat: a durably high return on capital and margins that survive a downturn. The causes (switching costs, network effects, brand, licences, economies of scale) appear in no filing and are not claimed here.

Next figures

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Required disclosures for this analysis

Produced byFlorian Maier
Completed on14.10.2026 03:58
Price as of12 Oct 2026
Latest filing10-Q, 6 Aug 2026
Method version2.7.0
Time horizonThe grades describe a state that can change with every annual report, so roughly quarterly. The historical analysis is computed over 36 months.
Own positionNot disclosed individually, see the risk notice.
Earlier analysesThe list of all analyses of this company from the past twelve months will appear once twelve months of analyses exist. This run is the start of the series.

This is not investment advice. Limits of the method, assumptions and conflicts of interest: risk notice.