Xponential Inc (fka XPOI)

[mrpanick]

XPOI doesn't break out a same store sales #. The last sales data reported was 17.5 mil for the 6 months ended Dec 2010 vs 16.0 mil for the 6 months ended Dec 2009 which was up 9.4% year over year. That includes revenues from pawn loans as well as sales. They purchsed 2 additional stores in Nov 2010 and if you adjust for that purchase same store sales increased by about 7% - 8% for the Dec 2010 period.

Alot of the gold craze happened in 2011 so it's possible that has increased same store sales growth above the 7% to 8% level it was running at. Considering how other retailers are doing, anything above 5% is extremely good. Pawn shop sales are a high margin business(especially pawn loans).

XPOI is obviously a very leveraged company. You have 300k of equity and a 33 mil balance sheet so the equity is leveraged over 100 to 1. This is actually a good thing if the company is growing, so same store sale growth is a key metric if you can get any store managers to discuss them.