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Paul Cerro on Xponential Fitness
I love video pitches, check out @paulcerro's pitch of $XPOF here:


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Hey everybody. Paul Cerro here— Cedar Grove Capital.

Today I'm pitching Xponential Fitness. It's a fitness name that specifically revolves around

boutique fitness studios, and the concepts that flow into these studios.

These can be fitness concepts from HIIT training, yoga, pilates, strength training.

There's bunch of different concepts that are rolled up into one.

I actually like this company because it's a fitness ETF.

They have 10 different brands within their portfolio, which actually allows them to not only capitalize on different fitness concepts in the space, but it also helps them mitigate any type of risks associated with just having one type of fitness concept.

So it's not like a gym where it's either go to the gym or you don't.

It's, "Hey, if I want to do pilates one day," great. I can do yoga the other day.

They have capitalized on a new fitness approach for a hybrid model—

meaning that they can support people who want to go in-person to work out and exercise,

people who want to stay home and do it themselves.

And then also they can do this other omni-channel approach where you can actually do live on demand classes,

from the comfort of wherever you want to be.

They offer this subscription called an X-pass,

which allows you to actually be able to have one membership and have access to all different kinds of fitness concepts within their brand.

So again, like if I want to do yoga one day, with this membership I can do pilates the next, I can do boxing the next, etc. etc. etc...

And also what I love about them is that they are very cognizant of new fitness concepts that come up. That's why they've actually closed on their 10th acquisition just last year.

Very quick with financials they've been growing at double digits. They're doing really well creeping back up to pre COVID levels.

Adjusted EBITDA is actually positive for this company.

So they actually are profitable on an adjusted EBITDA basis.

And with operating leverage plan scaling up over time, because this is a fitness franchise, their corporate SG&A can basically stay relatively the same while they're growing their revenue. So you're going to see that more of a margin expansion going on in between that.

And what I'm really excited about is that while they're still growing domestically, international white space is immense.

They have over 2,000 studios in the U.S.

With the potential of over 7,000.

If you're thinking about what they could possibly do— we're looking at least 3X to 4X, the physical location store footprints that they can have.

International: A lot. And they're literally just starting hitting the surface. They're guiding towards double digit growth in both revenue and EBITDA margins, and actually planning on growing EBITDA margins from 17% in 2021 to over 30% in 2022.

So that's over 1,200 basis points, 1,300 basis points in the span of one year.

So very bullish on the stock.
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