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Hims & Hers Health, Inc. HIMS
At $33.78 you are paying 2.9x sales for a company that grew revenue 59% in 2025 and has now lost money in two straight quarters.
The whole setup turns on whether the 2026 losses are the cost of building capacity or the cost of buying growth, because the balance sheet went from unlevered to 4.77x debt to equity while it happened.
Key data
HIMS · price with moving averages
Source: market data.
The business
Hims & Hers sells prescription treatment by subscription, straight to the consumer. Someone fills out a questionnaire online, an affiliated clinician reviews it, and medication arrives every month after that. The founding categories were the ones people do not want to raise with a doctor face to face: hair loss, erectile dysfunction, skin. The category that rebuilt the company is weight loss, specifically compounded and branded GLP-1 medications.
The economics are subscription economics with a pharmacy bolted on. Gross margin ran 73.8% in 2025, marketing is the largest cost line, and the model depends on a subscriber staying past the payback period. What changed is the plumbing underneath. Capital spending went from $41.7M in 2024 to $226.0M in 2025 as the company built its own pharmacy and fulfilment network, funded with $918.8M of newly issued debt.
Business read. A software gross margin on a physical product, now carrying a factory and a mortgage.
Things you might not know
Management missed its own internal revenue goal in 2025. The annual bonus plan paid 93.72% of target on roughly 94% of the revenue target and 98% of the Adjusted EBITDA target, so a year that read as 59% growth from outside read as a modest shortfall from inside the plan.
The same year paid the maximum on the long-term plan. Performance shares granted in March 2023 vested in February 2026 at 200% of target because 2025 GAAP revenue of $2.35B cleared a $1.3B bar set three years earlier, before weight loss existed as a line in anyone's model.
Book equity is already gone. Tangible book value is negative $5.18 per share against a $33.78 price, cash is $3.63 per share, and the current ratio is 0.93, meaning current liabilities exceed current assets while the build-out is still being paid for.
Fundamentals
| Measure | QoQ | YoY |
|---|---|---|
| Revenue | +23.9% ($608M to $753M) | +59.0% ($1.48B to $2.35B) |
| Gross margin | not disclosed | negative 5.7 points (79.5% to 73.8%) |
| GAAP diluted EPS | +7.5%, loss narrowed from negative $0.40 to negative $0.37 | negative 3.8% ($0.53 to $0.51) |
| Free cash flow | not disclosed | negative 62.7% ($198.3M to $74.0M) |
| Capital spending | not disclosed | +441.9% ($41.7M to $226.0M) |
TL;DR. QoQ here is the June 2026 quarter against March 2026; YoY is FY2025 against FY2024 as filed, because the year-ago quarter was not sourced in this run. The split is the story. Sequential revenue is accelerating at 23.9% while the profit line goes the other way, and cash generation fell 62.7% in the same year capital spending rose more than fivefold.
Valuation
| Metric | Company | Peer median |
|---|---|---|
| Price to sales, trailing | 2.9x | not disclosed |
| Price to 2028 consensus EPS | 41.5x | not disclosed |
| Price to FY2025 free cash flow | 101x | not disclosed |
| FY2025 gross margin | 73.8% | not disclosed |
| FY2025 revenue growth | 59.0% | not disclosed |
Peers: Teladoc Health, LifeMD, GoodRx, Doximity, Oscar Health. Peer medians were not sourced in this run and are not estimated here.
Every peer cell is blank because this run was scoped to the company's own filings, and a made-up median is worse than an empty one. Read the company column against itself instead: 2.9x sales and 101x free cash flow describe the same twelve months, and the 41.5x rests on six to eight analysts.
Management
| Measure | Record |
|---|---|
| Capital allocation | Capex $41.7M (2024) to $226.0M (2025); $918.8M debt issued in 2025 after carrying essentially none; free cash flow $198.3M to $74.0M; no dividend or buyback in the source |
| Diluted shares | 236.8M to 258.2M, up 9.0%, partly from the convertible structure; stock compensation $135.2M, 5.8% of FY2025 revenue |
| Insider activity (12mo) | Not disclosed; Form 4 detail was not pulled in this run |
Compensation
| Horizon | Goals | Outcome |
|---|---|---|
| Annual cash, FY2025 | Pre-established revenue and Adjusted EBITDA targets; CEO target opportunity 75% of base salary, raised from 70% in 2024 | Approximately 94% of the revenue target and 98% of the Adjusted EBITDA target; paid at 93.72% of target; Dudum bonus $585,763 |
| Long-term, March 2023 PRSUs, vested February 2026 | 2025 GAAP revenue against a $1.3B target, plus satisfaction of a minimum Adjusted EBITDA margin | 2025 GAAP revenue of $2.35B; vested at 200% of target for each named executive officer |
The linchpins
Win big if
Win big if the 2026 losses were the build and not the business, because fixed cost absorbed ahead of volume produces exactly this signature: revenue accelerating, margin compressing, cash draining, all at once, right after capital spending rises more than fivefold to $226.0M. The first observable proof is the November 9 report, where consensus is positive $0.09 on $878M and any positive print on revenue above $850M ends the loss streak. The confirming signal is gross margin stabilising above 68% as the owned pharmacy fills, with free cash flow back above $200M as capital spending normalises.
Surprised down if
Surprised down if the newest and largest category simply does not carry the economics of the oldest ones, which is what the gross margin column already hints at: 82.0%, then 79.5%, then 73.8%, then 64.7% trailing, seventeen points in three years while mix shifted toward weight loss. The first observable proof is a third consecutive loss on November 9, putting the 2028 consensus of $0.81 out of reach and converting an operating question into a financing one at 4.77x debt to equity. The confirming signal is an equity or debt raise, or margin under 62%.
Last word
A 200% payout against a $1.3B revenue bar, in the same year the cash bonus plan came up 6% short.
Methodology
Source of record is the Bid Cap Back of Napkin on Hims & Hers dated 2026-08-22, which draws on the Form 10-K filed 2026-02-23 for the year ended 2025-12-31, prior annual filings, and vendor consensus, trailing ratios and earnings calendar as of 2026-08-22; price is the 2026-08-21 close. Compensation goals and outcomes were added from the DEF 14A filed 2026-04-28 (Hims & Hers Health, Inc., CIK 1773751). Price to FY2025 free cash flow is computed from market capitalization over as-filed free cash flow, defined as operating cash flow less purchases of property and equipment. Peer medians, insider Form 4 detail, and the current regulatory and supply status of the GLP-1 category were not sourced and are marked accordingly. Not investment advice. Positions disclosed.
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