Based on the aggregated intelligence of 125,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, fitness club operator Life Time Fitness
With that in mind, let's take a closer look at Life Time Fitness' business and see what CAPS investors are saying about the stock right now.
Life Time Fitness facts
Headquarters (Founded) |
Chanhassen, Minnesota (1990) |
Market Cap |
$575.82 million |
Industry |
Leisure Facilities |
TTM Revenue |
$746.77 million |
Management |
Founder/CEO Bahram Akradi COO Michael Gerend |
Total Debt/Equity |
101% |
Competitors |
Town Sports International Bally Total Fitness |
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Sources: Capital IQ, a division of Standard & Poor's, and Motley Fool CAPS. TTM = trailing 12 months.
Over on CAPS, fully 178 of the 314 members who have rated Life Time Fitness -- some 57% -- believe the stock will underperform the S&P 500 going forward. These Fools include CAPS All-Star dexion10 and CashonDelivery.
Last month, dexion10 wrote that Life Time Fitness "is similar to Bally's Total Fitness, a gym that came back from bankruptcy and then filed for bankruptcy again in just 14 months. Gym memberships will be a casualty of the recession and [Life Time] runs high end gyms."
In a pitch from two weeks later, CashonDelivery, after taking the lead from stock whistleblower Citron Research, shared that same bearish stance:
After looking into the company, I agree it's terrible. They're generating most cash flow from sale-leaseback transactions, but they only have so many properties and I don't see the real estate market for huge fitness centers improving greatly, especially if the purchasing parties have concerns about the long-term viability of their new lease tenant. Coupled with declining utilization by members, this company is the walking dead.
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