Company data sheet · Party City Holdco
Party City Holdco: four lost years, and the economy wasn't the reason.
- Industry
- Miscellaneous Retail
- Headquarters
- United States
- Sources
- SEC filings (2014–2024), Stratrix's verified Decision Cases, market data and official economic statistics for the United States
- Data as of
- October 18, 2026
- From profit to four straight losses. Party City Holdco earned $0.5 billion in 2016–2018. Then it lost money every year from 2019 to 2022: $2 billion in all.
- It wasn't the cycle. The losses began in 2019, a year the US economy grew 2.6%. When a company falls while its economy grows, look inside the company first.
- Left behind by its peers. From 2016 to 2022, its revenue shrank 5% in US dollars; the median among 137 large retailers grew 45%. It outgrew only 14% of them.
- Still smaller than it was. Revenue reached $2.2 billion in 2022, 11% below its 2018 peak of $2.4 billion.
- Leaders came and went. Party City Holdco filed 33 leadership changes since 2016, more than 83% of large retailers (the median is 21).
Financial results
| Fiscal year | Revenue | Net income | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | $2.3 billion | $0.1 billion | |
| 2017 | $2.4 billion | $0.2 billion | |
| 2018 | $2.4 billion | $0.1 billion | |
| 2019 | $2.3 billion | −$0.5 billion | |
| 2020 | $1.9 billion | −$0.5 billion | |
| 2021 | $2.2 billion | −$0 billion | |
| 2022 | $2.2 billion | −$0.9 billion |
As reported in its annual filings. Losses in red.
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- Market reaction to disclosed decisions: 62 decision filings since 2016, each linked to the SEC, with the share return against its sector and the S&P 500 the next day and the next year (0 with market data).
- Economic context: 7 measures for the United States, every year since 2016, from the official sources.
- Peer comparison: against 224 companies of its size in its sector.
- Financial results: ten years of revenue, operating and net income, and every annual report, linked.
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