Highlights
- Every week, 6.0% of gross sales goes to the franchisor before rent, food or labor: royalty 6% of Net Sales.p.19
- Opening one unit is estimated at $236,800 to $580,500, including a $30,000 initial fee.p.26
- Sport Clips discloses unit performance in Item 19.p.53
- The system went from 1,855 outlets at the start of 2023 to 1,788 at the end of 2025, a net loss of 67.p.57
- In 2025, closures of all kinds equalled 2.5% of the outlets open at the start of the year.
- Item 3 discloses 0 matters.
Tools, from this filing's numbers
What Sport Clips takes off the top
Royalty 6% of Net Sales, applied to your own sales estimate. The rates are the filing's; the sales are yours.
Preset to the filing's Item 19 figure, $419,485 a year.p.53
Cash you would need to open
The filing's Item 7 range, $236,800 to $580,500, is an estimate for one unit including only its first months. Slide between the low and high cases and add the months of runway you want beyond that.
Monthly operating cash is taken as one-twelfth of your weekly-sales figure above times 52, a placeholder for rent, labor and food until you have your own budget.
Where the units went in 2025
Every outlet that opened, and every one that left, drawn from Item 20 Table 3 to scale.p.65
Total outlets, 2022 to 2025
Compare Sport Clips with another brand
Side by side, every figure cited.
Fees (Items 5 and 6)
| Initial franchise fee, standard | $30,000 | p.18 |
| Royalty | 6% of Net Sales | p.19 |
| Advertising fund | not stated | |
| Technology fee | 1% of net sales | p.19 |
The filing lists every recurring and conditional fee in Item 6.
Estimated initial investment (Item 7)
| Expenditure | Low | High | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Initial Franchise Fee | $30,000 | $69,500 | p.25 |
| Travel and living expenses while attending initial training | $1,000 | $2,000 | p.25 |
| Real Estate | None | None | p.25 |
| Opening Inventory | $4,000 | $8,000 | p.25 |
| Fixtures and Equipment | $20,000 | $55,000 | p.25 |
| Leasehold Improvements | $108,000 | $290,000 | p.25 |
| Supplemental Services Fee | $3,000 | $5,000 | p.25 |
| Professional Fees | $3,000 | $8,000 | p.25 |
| Permits and Licenses | $3,000 | $10,000 | p.25 |
| Lease Deposit | $0 | $6,000 | p.25 |
| Signage | $3,800 | $13,000 | p.25 |
| Miscellaneous Opening Costs | $0 | $15,000 | p.26 |
| Insurance | $700 | $3,500 | p.26 |
| Grand Opening Advertising | $30,000 | $30,000 | p.26 |
| Additional Funds - 3 Months | $22,500 | $60,000 | p.26 |
| Total | $236,800 | $580,500 | p.26 |
Revenue (Item 19)
Sport Clips reports a financial performance figure of $419,485 across 1645 outlets.p.53 What the figure measures, which units were excluded and what it leaves out are in the report.
Units (Item 20)
| Type | Year | Start | End | Net | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| franchised | 2023 | 1,781 | 1,785 | 4 | p.57 |
| company owned | 2023 | 74 | 75 | 1 | p.57 |
| total | 2023 | 1,855 | 1,860 | 5 | p.57 |
| franchised | 2024 | 1,785 | 1,732 | -53 | p.57 |
| company owned | 2024 | 75 | 83 | 8 | p.57 |
| total | 2024 | 1,860 | 1,815 | -45 | p.57 |
| franchised | 2025 | 1,732 | 1,702 | -30 | p.57 |
| company owned | 2025 | 83 | 86 | 3 | p.57 |
| total | 2025 | 1,815 | 1,788 | -27 | p.57 |
Openings and closures, system totals (Table 3)
| Year | Start | Opened | Terminated | Non-renewed | Reacquired | Ceased, other | End | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 1,781 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 1,785 | p.65 |
| 2024 | 1,785 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 75 | 1,732 | p.65 |
| 2025 | 1,732 | 14 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 26 | 1,702 | p.65 |
Arithmetic checks flagged: item7: low lines sum to 229000, total says 236800; Item 20 Table 3 does not foot for 2023: start + opened - closures = 1,786, filing states 1785. The figures shown are as filed.
Litigation (Item 3)
The filing states no litigation is required to be disclosed.p.17
Scorecard
Rank among the brands on this site that report the figure, on each list's own direction. No blended grade. How the lists work.
| Cost to open | $236,800 | 13 of 51 |
| Royalty plus ad fund | 6.0% | 7 of 43 |
| Three-year unit growth | -3.6% | 45 of 54 |
| Closure rate, 2025 | 2.5% | 25 of 51, 1 = most |
| Discloses unit revenue | yes | |
| Litigation disclosed | 0 | 20 of 26, 1 = most |
Source
Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions franchise filing 640673, effective 4/1/2026, expires 4/1/2027. Extracted 2026-09-03 by two independent readers; only figures both agreed on, whose quoted words appear on the cited page, are shown. 7 fields held for review. How this works.