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Sport Clips franchise — is it worth it?

Medium risk Shrinking network Item 19 disclosed

Sport Clips is a hair care franchise with a significant footprint, reporting average gross sales of over $419,000 from its mature stores.

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Figures above are as disclosed in Sport Clips's most recent FDD (registered 2026). Source: Wisconsin Dept. of Financial Institutions — Franchise Registration · filing 640673 — check it yourself. See every other Wisconsin-registered franchise.

How much does a Sport Clips franchise make?

Sport Clips is one of the franchisors that answers this on the record: its most recent FDD makes an Item 19 financial performance representation — actual unit earnings figures, disclosed by the franchisor itself. The headline figure is $419,485 in average unit revenue — read it alongside what Item 19 says about which units it covers (often only mature or top-performing locations). See every beauty & personal care brand that discloses earnings in the Salon, beauty & personal care franchises with disclosed Item 19 earnings ranking.

Sport Clips franchise profit vs. revenue

Revenue is not profit. An Item 19 almost always reports sales — what a location takes in — not what an owner keeps. Out of that number come Sport Clips's 6% royalty, the ad fund, rent, payroll, supplies and debt service. No FDD tells you a Sport Clips franchise's profit, because profit depends on your site, your rent and how you run it — so treat any "Sport Clips franchise profit" figure quoted elsewhere as someone's estimate, not a disclosure. On $419,485 of revenue, a 6% royalty alone is about $25,169 a year before any other cost.

Sport Clips lawsuits & legal history (FDD Item 3)

Sport Clips's most recently filed Franchise Disclosure Document (2026) discloses no litigation in Item 3. That is a real signal rather than a gap: the FTC Franchise Rule requires a franchisor to disclose material litigation involving itself, its predecessors, parents, affiliates and management, so an empty Item 3 in a current filing means there was nothing it was required to report. It is worth reading alongside the churn numbers — a system can have a clean Item 3 and still be losing franchisees, which is what Item 20 shows.

Sport Clips closures & failure rate

Before you sign, Sport Clips will hand you a list of current owners to call as references — and they choose who's on that list. It won't include the owners who quit, got bought out, or were forced out last year. The FDD does report that number, even though the reference list leaves those people off. Below is what Sport Clips's most recent filing shows, and whether it's normal for a beauty & personal care of this kind.

The closest thing an FDD has to a failure rate is Item 20 — outlet openings, closures, terminations and non-renewals, reported by the franchisor. Sport Clips's latest tables show a shrinking franchised network — more units left than opened. Its franchised-outlet closure rate — closures, terminations and non-renewals against outlets — is 1.5%, against a beauty & personal care median of 1.8% — at or better than the category. Net franchised outlets moved -30 to 1,702 in the latest reported year.

Who owns Sport Clips?

Sport Clips's franchise is offered by Sport Clips, Inc. — the franchisor named on the cover of its most recently filed Franchise Disclosure Document (2026), and the entity a franchisee actually signs with. That name comes straight off the filing at WI DFI; it identifies the franchisor, not necessarily the ultimate parent company behind it.

Other beauty & personal care franchises

Anyone weighing Sport Clips is really weighing it against the other brands their money could go into. These are the closest by total initial investment (FDD Item 7), each with its own FDD-based page.

Sport Clips franchise — frequently asked