Six Flags Entertainment Corporation

Price story Before the numbers, the tape. A stock price moves through four repeating seasons: a flat base (stage 1), an advance (2), a top (3), a decline (4). Where the price sits in that cycle frames everything below.

Six Flags Entertainment Corporation trades at $18.1, in a downtrend and 4 weeks into that stage. That is −0.8% against its own 200-day average. It sits at 37% of a 52-week range of $13 to $26. On relative strength it is currently behind the S&P 500 on a trailing-13-week view (5 weeks and counting).

Today the stock is in a downtrend — week 4 of stage 4. At $18.1 it trades −0.8% versus its 200-day average and sits at 37% of its 52-week range ($13–$26).

Against the market, two honest reads. Cumulative: over the last 10.1 years the stock moved −69% while the S&P 500 moved +263% — behind the index over the full window. Recent form: on a trailing-13-week view the stock is currently behind (5 weeks and counting; last ahead the week of 2026-07-02) — the ribbon below is that same metric, week by week.

What would end the trend, mechanically: two Friday closes in a row below the 200-day line. That is the exit rule — no debates.

Valuation P/E is the price of $1 of annual profit: how many dollars the market pays for each dollar the company earns in a year.

P/E does not price Six Flags Entertainment Corporation — earnings are negative, so there is no multiple to rank against its own history. The revenue and margin lines below are where a turn, when it comes, would show first. On sales the market values Six Flags Entertainment Corporation at 0.6× its FY25 revenue of $3.1 B.

With earnings negative, P/E does not price — there is no multiple to rank against its own history. The revenue and margin lines below are where the turn, when it comes, will show first.

Put together: the multiple is unremarkable against its own past, so the story rests on the earnings line underneath it, not the multiple.

Stage: No read Every business sits somewhere on a fundamental arc, and this page names the spot before anything else. The last twelve quarters of revenue, profit and EPS growth — plus the return the business earns on its capital — are read as curves: Deteriorating (the curves are falling), Turning around (a trough has just formed and the last few quarters lift off it), Improving (the climb off the trough is sustained), Consistent (steadily positive with healthy returns), Topping out (still high but decelerating from the peak). When the curves genuinely disagree the read is Mixed; too little history is No read. CAGR (compound annual growth rate) is the smooth yearly pace that turns the starting value into the latest one — the fairest way to compare growth across different time spans. Read the columns together: if the 1-year number towers over the 10-year, recent growth is running hotter than the long-run trend. A dash means that window is not held, or the base year was a loss (where a growth rate is not meaningful).

Six Flags Entertainment Corporation reads as no read on its fundamental arc. Under eight usable quarters on the growth trio — not enough history for an honest trajectory read. The read is built from 9 quarters across 2 curves, on partial evidence.

Why it matters: with too little history, an honest page says so instead of guessing a trajectory.

The latest quarter’s profit carries a one-off item larger than the operating base, so the profit curve is shown but does not vote in the stage call.

One or more growth curves carry a base-effect spike — a large year-on-year move off a near-zero or loss-making comparable quarter. Those spikes are capped before the classifier reads the trajectory, and shown pinned on the chart, so a single distorted quarter does not drive the stage call.

Return readings here are annual, not quarterly — read as level and direction only; they can confirm the growth curves but never drive the stage on their own.

Fewer than eight usable quarters on the growth curves — this page will not guess a trajectory from a stub of history.

4-Factor Sector Score

39.3/100 — rank 19 of 22 in Leisure · 64% evidence confidence

Six Flags Entertainment Corporation scores 39.3 out of 100 against the 22 companies it is compared with in Leisure, ranking 19. Acceleration candidate, not a confirmed leader: earnings are strong but sector-relative strength is -14.2% and the one-year return is -23.7%. Do not upgrade until sector-relative strength is above zero and another reported period confirms growth.

The four contributions add to the total exactly: 23 + 3.7 + 8.5 + 4.1 = 39.3. This is the SAME number shown on the sector comparison — it is computed once, for the whole peer set, and read here.

What would change it: The read weakens if profit growth turns negative or margin improvement reverses while sector-relative strength deteriorates.

Revenue Revenue is the top line: everything the company billed its customers in the period.

Six Flags Entertainment Corporation reported $0.2 B of revenue in the Mar 26 quarter, +15.0% year on year. Over 3 years it has compounded at 27.4% a year. The last full year, FY25, came in at $3.1 B. The last four reported quarters add to $3.1 B.

FY25 revenue came in at $3.1 B (+14.4% on the year), capping 3 years at 27.4% compound. The latest quarter (Mar 26) printed $0.2 B, +15.0% year on year.

Pace check: the last four quarters averaged +17.6% growth against the decade's 27.4% — the current year is running slower than its own long-run rate.

Acceleration check: trailing-twelve-month revenue grew +11.4% over the last 4 quarters against +31.5%/yr over the last 8 — rolling over.

Operating margin Operating margin is what is left of every $100 of sales after running the business, before interest and tax. It is the cleanest read on pricing power and cost control.

Six Flags Entertainment Corporation's operating margin is −134.8% in the Mar 26 quarter, +25.2 percentage points against the same quarter a year ago. Across 5 fiscal years the operating margin has ranged −44.5% to 34.7%. The current quarter is running below every full year in that window.

The latest quarter's operating margin is −134.8%, +25.2 pp against the same quarter a year ago. Across 5 fiscal years the operating margin has ranged −44.5%–34.7%.

Why the margin moved: operating margin went +25.2 pp year on year while gross margin went +33.9 pp — the gain came mostly from the gross line: input costs and pricing.

Net profit Net profit is what survives every cost, interest and tax — the number EPS, dividends and book value all grow from.

Six Flags Entertainment Corporation posted a net loss of $0.3 B in the Mar 26 quarter. That quarter carries a one-off item larger than its own revenue, so the year-on-year figure is an artefact rather than a trading result. The full FY25 year was a loss of $1.6 B. That loss is 117.4% of the quarter's revenue.

Mar 26 profit was $−0.3 B, null year on year. On the full year, FY25 printed $−1.6 B (null).

🚨 Read this profit with care: at $−0.3 B it is larger than the whole quarter's revenue of $0.2 B — no operating business earns more than it sells, so this is a one-off item (a debt-to-equity conversion, a tax write-back or an asset sale), not money the business earned. The underlying operations are running at −134.8% operating margin; the year-on-year jump and any P/E built on this number are artefacts of the one-off, not a real earnings turn.

Cash flow — the router The P&L says what was earned; the cash-flow statement says what actually arrived. Operating cash flow (CFO) against profit is the cleanest lie detector in the accounts.

Over the last 2 fiscal years 172% of Six Flags Entertainment Corporation's reported profit arrived as operating cash — the cash follows the profit. In FY25 that was $0.3 B of operating cash against $−1.6 B of profit. After $0.5 B of capital spending, $−0.1 B was left as free cash.

FY25: operating cash of $0.3 B against reported profit of $−1.6 B, leaving free cash of $−0.1 B after $0.5 B of capital spending. Across the last 2 fiscal years the conversion rate is 172% of profit.

Cash-flow readings here are annual — that is the resolution our series carries, so this section moves once a year.

Why: conversion is measured cleanly, but the working-capital day-counts behind it sit below what we hold — the move is shown without inventing its driver.

Router verdict: the visible cash user is investment — the next section checks what the spending is buying.

Where the cash goes Working capital is the cash tied up between paying suppliers and getting paid: debtor days (customers owe), inventory days (stock waits), and the cash conversion cycle (the whole loop, in days of sales).

Six Flags Entertainment Corporation does not report the debtor, inventory and payable day-counts a cash cycle is built from, so this section reads the investment side instead. Capital spending ran $1.0 B over the last 3 years. Averaged over those years that is 10.8% of FY25 revenue a year.

Working-capital day-counts are not in our numbers for this stock, so this section reads the investment side — where the cash is being put to work.

On the investment side: capital spending of $1.0 B over the last 3 fiscal years.

The synthesis: the cash is going into capacity, not disappearing into the cycle — the question becomes whether the new capacity earns.

Return on equity Return on equity (ROE) is the profit the business earns on its shareholders’ money. With the full capital-employed split not in our numbers, ROE is the cleanest long ladder we can draw here.

Six Flags Entertainment Corporation earns a ROE of −199% in FY25. Return on invested capital clears the cost of that capital by −0.5 percentage points, so growth here is not yet paying for the capital it uses. The wiring behind it is −50.0% net margin on 0.40× asset turns.

FY25 ROE is −199%.

🚨 Why the return is what it is — the wiring (FY25): −50.0% net margin × 0.40× asset turns × 10.00× balance-sheet leverage ≈ −200.0% on equity. Margin does its share; leverage is a meaningful part of the equation.

The capstone test — ROIC − WACC: 5.0% − 5.5% = a −0.5 pp spread. The 5.5% is an estimate of this company's own cost of capital — read the sign and the size of the spread, not the decimals. Negative — growth at these returns destroys value until the returns recover.

Dividend A dividend is cash paid out per share. Dividend per share is the declared amount for the period; the trailing twelve-month total is the four most recent quarters added together.

Six Flags Entertainment Corporation paid $1.20 per share over the last four reported quarters. The most recent declaration was $0.30 for Mar 24. Against the current price of $18.1 that is a trailing yield of 6.62%, measured on dividends already paid rather than on a forecast.

Six Flags Entertainment Corporation paid $1.20 per share across the last four reported quarters, most recently $0.30 for Mar 24. Against the current price of $18.1 the trailing twelve months work out to 6.62% — trailing dividends measured against today's price, not a forward estimate.

Debt Debt-to-equity says how much of the business is funded by borrowings. Low is the safe corner; the trend matters as much as the level.

Six Flags Entertainment Corporation carries total debt of $5.5 B against shareholder equity of $0.5 B as of Mar 26, a debt-to-equity of 10.84. On the annual view that ratio went from −4.05 in FY23 to 6.92 in FY25. Read the returns elsewhere on this page with that leverage in mind.

Mar 26: total debt of $5.5 B against shareholder equity of $0.5 B — a debt-to-equity of 10.84. On the annual view, debt-to-equity went from −4.05 (FY23) to 6.92 (FY25). Read the returns on this page with that leverage in mind.

Ownership There is no quarter-by-quarter holder register to read here, so we read the crowd through short interest — the slice of tradable shares currently sold short, positioned for a fall.

21.7% of Six Flags Entertainment Corporation's tradable float is currently sold short — a large bloc is positioned against it. At typical trading volumes those positions would take about 7.4 days to buy back. There is no quarter-by-quarter holder register to read for this filer, so the crowd is read through short interest instead.

The latest reading: 21.7% of the float is sold short, and at typical trading volumes it would take about 7.4 days to buy those positions back. A large bloc is positioned against it. This is a single point-in-time reading — we do not yet hold its history, so we show no trend chart.

Why it sits there: who is doing the shorting, and why, does not travel with the number — the level is shown without inventing its story.

Safety line The Z-score estimates how far a company sits from balance-sheet distress — above roughly 3 is safe, below roughly 1.8 is the danger zone. It was built for manufacturers, so it is not applied to banks and lenders.

Six Flags Entertainment Corporation: the Z-score reads 0.31. A Z-score above roughly 3 reads as safe and below roughly 1.8 as the distress zone, so this sits inside the distress zone. It is a distance-to-distress estimate from the balance sheet, not a forecast of failure.

🚨 Why it matters: a Z-score of 0.31 is inside the distress zone — the balance sheet is a real risk, not a detail.

The safety line in one sentence: the Z-score reads 0.31.

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