LifeStance Health LFST
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At close: Sep 30, 2026 · 4:00 PM EDT

LifeStance Health (LFST) Operating Expenses (2020 - 2026)

Updated

LifeStance Health (LFST) posted Operating Expenses of $404.7 million for Q2 2026, up 16.2% from $348.26 million a year earlier and up 6.2% from the prior quarter.

Analysis

LifeStance Health (LFST) Operating Expenses (2020 - 2026) Analysis & Trends

For the trailing twelve months through Jun 30, 2026, Operating Expenses at LifeStance Health was $1.51 billion, up 14.4% year-over-year; for FY2025, it came in at $1.4 billion, up 9.2% from FY2024.

  • Annual Operating Expenses has increased for six consecutive years, with a five-year compound annual growth rate of 40.2% (FY2020 to FY2025).
  • In prior years, LifeStance Health's Operating Expenses was $1.28 billion in FY2024 (+3.0%), $1.24 billion in FY2023 (+16.4%), $1.07 billion in FY2022 (+12.1%) and $953.86 million in FY2021 (+268.6%).
  • The Q2 2026 figure stands as the highest quarterly Operating Expenses in data going back to Q1 2021.
  • On a year-over-year basis, Operating Expenses has increased in each of the last seven quarters, with growth averaging 8.1% over the last eight quarters.
  • The strongest year-over-year quarter for Operating Expenses in the past five years was Q1 2022, with growth of 86.1%; the weakest was Q3 2022, with a decline of 14.1%.
  • According to Business Quant data, Operating Expenses for the three prior quarters was $381.19 million (Q1 2026), $364.11 million (Q4 2025) and $356.4 million (Q3 2025).
Peer Set

Peer Comparison

# Company Market Cap Enterprise Value Gross Profit (Qtr) Opex (Qtr)
1 HCA Healthcare 94.08 Bn 93.52 Bn - 17.74 Bn
2 Natera 59.53 Bn 55.21 Bn 485.19 Mn 828.54 Mn
3 Quest Diagnostics 25.60 Bn 24.03 Bn 1.03 Bn 2.58 Bn
4 Labcorp Holdings 24.98 Bn 22.75 Bn 1.11 Bn 582.30 Mn
5 Guardant Health 23.75 Bn 19.81 Bn 219.03 Mn 464.10 Mn
6 Tenet Healthcare 20.75 Bn 11.90 Bn - -
7 Tempus AI 14.47 Bn 11.50 Bn 246.50 Mn 458.40 Mn
8 Encompass Health 12.19 Bn 12.65 Bn - 1.31 Bn
9 Davita 11.20 Bn 9.97 Bn 1.16 Bn 2.98 Bn
10 LifeStance Health 4.37 Mn -868.92 Mn 153.04 Mn 404.70 Mn
Historic Data

Historic Data

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DateValue
Jun 30, 2026 404.70 Mn
Mar 31, 2026 381.19 Mn
Dec 31, 2025 364.11 Mn
Sep 30, 2025 356.40 Mn
Jun 30, 2025 348.26 Mn
Mar 31, 2025 331.37 Mn
Dec 31, 2024 324.42 Mn
Sep 30, 2024 312.68 Mn
Jun 30, 2024 328.28 Mn
Mar 31, 2024 317.21 Mn
Dec 31, 2023 312.87 Mn
Sep 30, 2023 337.25 Mn
Jun 30, 2023 307.99 Mn
Mar 31, 2023 286.68 Mn
Dec 31, 2022 275.37 Mn
Sep 30, 2022 256.40 Mn
Jun 30, 2022 270.00 Mn
Mar 31, 2022 267.95 Mn
Dec 31, 2021 303.75 Mn
Sep 30, 2021 298.50 Mn
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