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Stealing defeat from the jaws of victory. Peloton keeping crushing it.

Sorry, I meant getting crushed.


Let's see that again. More detail, more cowbell!



Breaking the cycle


Peloton shares fell almost 9% yesterday after the company announced it would be recalling 2.2 million bikes owing to a fault with the seat posts which sparked injury concerns for the company’s die-hard legion of fans.


That capped off a rough week, month, and few years for the at-home exercise giant, as the company has reported disappointing earnings almost every quarter since early 2021. The latest set of results revealed wider-than-expected losses and forecasted a drop in subscribers for the first time in the company’s history, which also caused shares to plunge 13% last Thursday.


Subscription service


While it may sound odd given it’s a fitness company rather than a streamer à la Netflix or Disney+, investors were right to be concerned by the forecasted drop. Peloton’s subscription service, where users pay each month to access live workouts, leader boards and a wide library of fitness content, has been the company’s main profit source for the last 8 quarters.


That’s a vast shift from how the company’s model looked even a couple of years ago, when selling bikes and other products was still at the heart of the business — Peloton netted over $900m in gross profit from product sales alone in their 2021 financial year. The wheels have since come off, however, and the company hasn’t turned a profit on the product-selling side for 5 consecutive quarters, with a whopping $290m loss in the last quarter of 2022.

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