Stocks · Consumer Cyclical · Restaurants
Venu Holding Corporation VENU
$1.43 +2.14% Close, Oct 5, 2026 · AMEX · Market cap $84.1M
Weak trendExpensive vs sectorHigh risk
Next earnings report: Nov 12, 2026
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Three things to know
- Operating margin narrowed to -329.3% from -219.7% a year earlier.
- The diluted share count rose 56.5% in a year.
- Over the past year the stock returned -88.4%, behind the S&P 500 by 104.1 percentage points.
PromtFinance scores
Each score is a percentile within the Consumer Cyclical sector (0–100). Under each score: how the stock ranks in its sector on every component. As of Oct 6, 2026.
How fast revenue, earnings and cash flow are growing.
- Revenue growth (TTM, YoY)Bottom 7%
- Revenue growth, 3-year CAGRTop 3%
- Revenue growth accelerationTop 47%
Returns on capital, margins, earnings quality and balance-sheet strength.
- Return on invested capitalBottom 8%
- Gross marginBottom 2%
- Operating marginBottom 1%
- Accruals (lower is better)Top 14%
- Interest coverBottom 10%
How cheap the shares are relative to earnings, cash flow and their own history.
- Earnings yieldBottom 3%
- Free-cash-flow yieldBottom 1%
- EBITDA / enterprise valueBottom 4%
- Sales / enterprise valueBottom 3%
Strength and persistence of the price trend, including versus the S&P 500.
- 12-month return excluding last monthBottom 1%
- 6-month returnBottom 1%
- 1-year return vs S&P 500Bottom 1%
- Distance from 52-week highBottom 1%
- Trend checklist (0–4)Bottom 18%
Earnings surprises and analyst sentiment (estimate-revision history is being collected).
- Average EPS surprise, last 4 quartersTop 46%
- Consecutive EPS beatsBottom 13%
Low volatility, shallow drawdowns, low market sensitivity and modest leverage.
- Volatility, 60 days (lower is better)Bottom 9%
- Maximum drawdown, 3 yearsBottom 3%
- Beta vs S&P 500 (lower is better)Bottom 36%
What changed
Latest four quarters versus the same period a year earlier (growth: versus one quarter earlier).
| Measure | Before | Now | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue growth (YoY) | -12.7% | -12.5% | ↑ |
| Gross margin | 32.6% | -9.3% | ↓ |
| Operating margin | -219.7% | -329.3% | ↓ |
| FCF margin | -521.2% | -1469.2% | ↓ |
Fundamental momentum
| Measure | Now (TTM) | Year / quarter before | Sector rank | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue growth (TTM, YoY) | -12.5% | -12.7% | ↑ | Bottom 7% |
| Gross margin | -9.3% | 32.6% | ↓ | Bottom 2% |
| Operating margin | -329.3% | -219.7% | ↓ | Bottom 1% |
| Net margin | -299.3% | -224.2% | ↓ | — |
| Free-cash-flow margin | -1469.2% | -521.2% | ↓ | — |
| Return on invested capital | -11.5% | — | Bottom 8% | |
| Revenue growth, 3-year CAGR | 27.4% | — | Top 3% |
Quality of earnings and balance sheet
- Accruals (net income − OCF) / assetsLower is better; high accruals can signal weaker earnings quality.
- -11.0%
- Stock-based compensation / revenueA cost to shareholders through dilution.
- 25.1%
- Interest cover (operating income / interest)How many times operating profit covers interest.
- -5.3×
Shareholder returns
- Dividend yield (dividends paid, TTM)
- -0.30%
- Net buyback yield (TTM)
- -115.33%
- Shareholder yield
- -115.63%
- Share count change, 1 year
- +56.5%
- Share count change, 3-year CAGR
- +16.4%
Shareholder yield = dividends + net buybacks over the last four quarters, divided by market cap.
Based on the four quarters through Jun 30, 2026 (filed Aug 13, 2026).
Earnings and expectations
Earnings momentum
- Consecutive EPS beats
- 0
- Beats in the last 8 reports
- 2 of 6
- Average EPS surprise, last 4
- +11.2%
- Average 2-day reaction, last 8
- +1.8%
- Positive 20 days after report
- 3 of 8
How the stock reacted to recent reports
| Report date | EPS surprise | 2 days | 5 days | 20 days | 60 days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 13, 2026 | -3.4% | +4.6% | -5.1% | -10.7% | — |
| May 15, 2026 | -20.8% | -3.1% | -3.4% | -11.4% | -50.0% |
| Mar 31, 2026 | +40.6% | +6.1% | +3.5% | +23.7% | -2.2% |
| Nov 14, 2025 | +28.6% | -2.9% | -16.0% | -11.9% | -52.2% |
| Aug 14, 2025 | -66.7% | +0.3% | +12.9% | -25.2% | -24.3% |
| May 15, 2025 | -166.7% | +0.3% | +18.1% | +38.5% | +97.9% |
| Mar 31, 2025 | — | +3.4% | -2.0% | -17.8% | +30.7% |
| Dec 23, 2024 | — | +5.4% | +2.9% | +12.8% | +2.9% |
Returns from the close before each report. Past reactions do not determine future ones.
Earnings history
| Report date | EPS | Estimate | Surprise | Revenue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 13, 2026 | -$0.30 | -$0.29 | -3.4% | $4.8M |
| May 15, 2026 | -$0.29 | -$0.24 | -20.8% | $3.9M |
| Mar 31, 2026 | -$0.19 | -$0.32 | +40.6% | $4.5M |
| Nov 14, 2025 | -$0.15 | -$0.21 | +28.6% | $2.3M |
| Aug 14, 2025 | -$0.30 | -$0.18 | -66.7% | $4.5M |
| May 15, 2025 | -$0.48 | -$0.18 | -166.7% | $3.5M |
| Mar 31, 2025 | -$0.18 | — | — | $4.3M |
| Dec 23, 2024 | -$0.13 | — | — | $5.5M |
Valuation in context
| Multiple | Now | 5-year median | 5-year percentile | Sector rank (cheapness) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EV / Sales | 16.23× | — | — | Bottom 3% |
| Free-cash-flow yield | -270.75% | — | — | Bottom 1% |
| Earnings yield | -79.02% | — | — | Bottom 3% |
Technical state
Trend checklist
- ✗ Price above 20-day average
- ✗ Price above 50-day average
- ✗ Price above 200-day average
- ✗ 50-day average above 200-day
- ✗ MACD histogram positive
Trend quality
- Days above the 50-day average
- 0
- Days above the 200-day average
- 0
- 50-day average slope (20 days)
- -16.3%
- 200-day average slope (20 days)
- -16.7%
- Distance from 50-day average
- -22.2%
- Distance from 200-day average
- -63.9%
- RSI (14)
- 37.6
- Relative volume
- 0.61×
Risk and drawdowns
- Volatility, 60 days (annualized)
- 76.1%
- Volatility vs own 5-year history
- 30th percentile · Normal for this stock
- Beta vs S&P 500 (2 years, weekly)
- 1.18
- Correlation with S&P 500
- 0.23
- Current drawdown from 1-year high
- -89.7%
- Maximum drawdown, 3 years
- -92.7%
Largest declines in the past six years
| From peak | To low | Decline | Length | Recovery |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 21, 2025 | Oct 1, 2026 | -92.7% | 279 days | Not yet recovered |
| Nov 29, 2024 | Apr 24, 2025 | -32.5% | 98 days | 22 days (May 27, 2025) |
| May 29, 2025 | Jun 4, 2025 | -30.2% | 4 days | 10 days (Jun 18, 2025) |
| Jun 20, 2025 | Jun 27, 2025 | -20.3% | 5 days | 20 days (Jul 28, 2025) |
Declines of 10% or more from a closing high, measured on daily closes.
Financial statements
- Market cap
- $84.1M
- EPS, diluted (TTM)
- -$1.13
- Revenue (TTM)
- $15.5M
- 52-week range
- $1.31 – $13.96
| FY 2022 | FY 2023 | FY 2024 | FY 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | $8.7M | $12.6M | $17.8M | $17.9M |
| Gross profit | $3.3M | $4.8M | $7.1M | $5.4M |
| Operating income | -$4.8M | -$11.1M | -$27.4M | -$53.0M |
| Net income | -$6.9M | -$10.5M | -$30.3M | -$44.1M |
| EPS (diluted) | -$0.18 | -$0.28 | -$0.81 | -$1.10 |
| Q3 2024 | Q4 2024 | Q1 2025 | Q2 2025 | Q3 2025 | Q4 2025 | Q1 2026 | Q2 2026 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | $5.5M | $4.3M | $3.5M | $4.5M | $2.3M | $4.5M | $3.9M | $4.8M |
| Net income | -$3.9M | -$6.3M | -$18.1M | -$11.4M | -$6.5M | -$8.3M | -$13.8M | -$17.9M |
| EPS (diluted) | -$0.10 | -$0.17 | -$0.48 | -$0.30 | -$0.17 | -$0.20 | -$0.46 | -$0.30 |
| FY 2022 | FY 2023 | FY 2024 | FY 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating cash flow | -$700,748 | -$4.9M | $3.8M | $7.6M |
| Capital expenditure | -$8.1M | -$31.2M | -$72.5M | -$141.7M |
| Free cash flow | -$8.8M | -$36.0M | -$68.7M | -$134.0M |
| Dividends paid | $0 | $0 | -$934,435 | $0 |
| Net share buybacks | $4.4M | $16.7M | $43.1M | $33.4M |
Cash outflows are shown as negative numbers.
- Cash and short-term investments
- $16.3M
- Total assets
- $511.8M
- Total liabilities
- $262.5M
- Total debt
- $183.6M
- Net debt
- $167.4M
- Shareholders’ equity
- $151.1M
As of Jun 30, 2026 (filed Aug 13, 2026).
Short interest
- Shares sold short
- 4,771,791
- Days to cover
- 11.46
- Change vs previous report
- -2.7%
FINRA short interest, settlement date Sep 15, 2026.