LUCKLucky Strike Entertainment Corporation
Is the business good?
The checks split: earnings fully cash-backed (1.0×), but margins compressing.
Operating profit is fully backed by cash. Conversion is worsening vs a year ago.
Negative operating leverage, costs are rising faster than sales, squeezing margins as it grows.
Against the whole market›
Percentile against every name Ryufin tracks. Higher is better; the tick marks the middle of the market. Context, not one of the checks above.
Where this answer is blind. The F-score rewards improvement, so an already-elite company can score mid-pack.
How good a business is LUCK?
Lucky Strike Entertainment Corporation earns 8.1% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so growth costs more than it returns.
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 0.90 points below what the capital costs: growth destroys value
- Operating margin
- 11%
Operating margin · Leisure median 9.2% · 12 months to Q4 2026
- Cash conversion
- 0.96×
Cash conversion · 1.64× a year ago · operating cash flow covers the operating profit after tax
- Gross margin
- 68%
Gross margin
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2021 | −9.8% |
| FY2022 | 13% |
| FY2023 | 19% |
| FY2024 | 7.9% |
| FY2025 | 11% |
| FY2026 | 11% |
Details›
- Gross margin12 months to Q4 2026
- 68%
- Operating margin12 months to Q4 2026
- 11%
- Net margin12 months to Q4 2026
- −2.9%
- Free cash flow margin
- −0.79%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $1.25B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- −$9.8M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- −$36M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 8.1%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion is operating cash flow over operating profit after tax.