Thinkific reports in thousands of U.S. dollars and in accordance with IFRS
VANCOUVER, BC, March 5, 2026 /CNW/ - Thinkific Labs Inc. ("Thinkific" or the "Company") (TSX:THNC), a leading learning commerce platform, today announced its financial results for the quarter ended December 31, 2025.
"We ended 2025 encouraged with the progress we are making in executing our upmarket strategy as demonstrated by our Q4 results which came in at the high-end of our guidance range," said Greg Smith, CEO and Founder of Thinkific. "Having laid out the new direction last year, our 2026 priorities are clear and we are focused on executing to validate and accelerate the path we are on. We are strengthening engineering excellence by deeply integrating AI into our development processes and platform capabilities while sharpening our go-to-market and packaging execution. With releases like Thinker AI Agents, we believe we are innovating to deliver the tools that will allow our customers to grow and scale their own businesses more effectively, which in turn will deliver measurable progress to Thinkific."
Fourth Quarter Financial Highlights (All comparisons are relative to the fourth quarter of 2024)
Total revenue for the fourth quarter of 2025 increased 6% to $18.7 million, the high-end of the guided range of $18.4 - $18.7 million, driven by strong Commerce performance that helped ARPU(2) grow by 5%, to $175 per month.
Commerce revenue increased 13% to $3.5 million, with GPV(2) processed through Thinkific Commerce growing 23% to $73.5 million. Thinkific Commerce penetration rate, measured as GPV(2) as a percent of GMV(2), increased to 63%, up from 52%. GMV(2) saw an increase of 2% to $117.3 million.
Subscription revenue increased 5% to $15.2 million, with ARR(2) also up 5% to $61.0 million.
Thinkific Plus Subscription and Commerce revenue grew 17% to $5.0 million. Self Serve Subscription and Commerce revenue increased by 3% to $13.7 million.
Gross margin decreased 3% to 72% in the fourth quarter of 2025, reflecting a shift in our revenue mix as we continue to see strong growth in Commerce revenue.
Net income was $0.3 million, an increase of $1.0 million from a net loss of $0.7 million.
Adjusted EBITDA(1) was $1.0 million or 6% of revenue, an improvement of $0.1 million, or 16%.
Cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments were $50.7 million as of December 31, 2025. During the fourth quarter of 2025, the Company used $0.5 million of cash for operating activities, compared to $1.3 million of cash generated by operating activities in the same quarter a year ago.
"We are pleased with our Q4 results, which reaffirm the strength of our operating model even as we navigate a strategic transition," said Corinne Hua, CFO of Thinkific. "To better serve an upmarket customer, we are making one-time, targeted investments in R&D. We expect this to improve developer productivity and enable Thinkific to accelerate the delivery of our product roadmap in 2026."
Fiscal Year 2025 Financial Highlights (All comparisons are relative to the year ended 2024)
Total revenue for 2025 increased 9% to $73.2 million, driven by strong Commerce performance.
Commerce revenue increased 32% to $13.4 million with GPV(2) processed through Thinkific Commerce growing 36% to $273.5 million. Thinkific Commerce penetration rate, measured as GPV(2) as a percent of GMV(2), increased to 59%, up from 44%. GMV(2) remained consistent at $460.0 million.
Subscription revenue increased 5% to $59.8 million.
Thinkific Plus Subscription and Commerce revenue grew 21% to $19.0 million. Self Serve Subscription and Commerce revenue increased by 6% to $54.2 million.
Gross margin decreased 2% to 73% for 2025, reflecting a shift in our revenue mix as we continue to see strong growth in Commerce revenue.
Net income for 2025 was $1.3 million compared to a net loss of $0.2 million.
Adjusted EBITDA(1) was $4.1 million or 6% of revenue, an improvement of $1.1 million, or 38%.
The Company generated $5.6 million of cash from operating activities compared to $7.0 million in 2024.
Subsequent to Quarter End
On February 24, 2026, the company made Thinkific's AI Teaching Assistant, Thinker, generally available. Thinker represents the next step in Thinkific's broader AI vision allowing our customers to create their own custom agents, trained on their own proprietary data to interact with their own students and customers.
Fiscal Year 2025 Operational Highlights
Product Innovation. Thinkific released continuous improvements to Our Platform, including enhancing our AI content generation tools, and advances in our advanced analytics capabilities.
There were substantial improvements made to Thinkific communities, including a modernized UI for communities and our mobile application, Weekly Digest Emails to support long-term community health and re-engagement, and rich text and multi-image posts to encourage more expressive, engaging community content that drives audience interaction.
Significant improvements to our Thinkific Commerce capabilities that allow our customers to scale their businesses by making it easier to sell and manage higher transaction volumes, include management of bulk licenses, checkout tracking, invoicing for B2B selling and improvements to subscription management and retention tools. Also added was coupon support and improved notification capabilities around subscriptions.
Thinkific received several industry recognitions, including being named to G2's 2025 Best Software Awards in three categories (Best Customer Service Software Products, Best Education Software Products, and Best Software Companies in Canada) in February 2025, recognition by Waterstone Human Capital as one of the 'Most Admired Corporate Cultures of 2024' in March 2025, and a 2025 Top Rated Award from TrustRadius in June 2025 based on customer reviews and ratings.
Thinkific converted all multiple voting shares to single voting shares. Simplifying the capital structure improves corporate governance and is a first step in enhancing shareholder value. This strategic change demonstrates management's confidence in Thinkific's growth trajectory and their dedication to maximizing long-term value for every shareholder.
Following its annual Shareholder's meeting, Thinkific named Russ Mann as Board Chairman, bringing a sharpened focus on revenue growth and dedication to maximizing long-term value for shareholders.
Thinkific completed a secondary offering of approximately C$15 million of Rhino Group's shares (which included an over allotment), simplifying the company's capital structure and paving the way to unlock shareholder value.
The company renewed its normal course issuer bid which allows the company to purchase for cancellation up to 5%, or 3,395,023 of the common shares outstanding.
Outlook
For the first quarter of 2026, the Company expects revenue of $18.6 - $18.9 million. We expect an Adjusted EBITDA(1) loss in the range of 2% to 5% of Revenue due to one-time strategic investments within R&D, with improvements as we move through the year.
Actual results may differ materially from Thinkific's financial outlook as a result of, among other things, the factors described under "Forward-Looking Statements" below.
Quarterly Conference Call and Webcast Information
A conference call will be held at 5:00 PM ET (2:00 PM PT) on March 5, 2026 to discuss Thinkific's fourth quarter 2025 financial and operational results. To participate in the call, please dial 1.888.510.2154 (US/Canada toll-free) or 1.437.900.0527 (International/Toronto). For those unable to participate, a replay will be available an hour after the event by dialing 1.888.660.6345 (US/Canada toll-free) or 1.289.819.1450 (International/Toronto). The passcode is 73783#. The replay will expire at midnight ET on March 23, 2026. The conference call will also be available via webcast on the Investor Relations section of Thinkific's website at investors.thinkific.com/events-and-presentations.
Thinkific's audited consolidated financial statements and accompanying notes, and Management's Discussion and Analysis for the year ended December 31, 2025, are available on the Company's website at www.thinkific.com and on SEDAR+ at www.sedarplus.ca.
About Thinkific
Thinkific (TSX:THNC) is an award-winning learning commerce platform where courses and community come together to power business growth. Thinkific gives academies, experts, and businesses everything they need to create and sell online learning experiences, build communities, and grow their revenue -- all from one platform. More than 35,000 customers -- including companies like GoDaddy, Nasdaq, ActiveCampaign, and Datadog -- have generated billions in revenue using Thinkific, impacting more than 200 million people worldwide.
For more information, please visit www.thinkific.com.
Non-IFRS Measures
The information presented within this press release includes "Adjusted EBITDA" and certain industry metrics. "Adjusted EBITDA" is not a recognized measure under International Financial Reporting Standards ("IFRS") as issued by the International Accounting Standards Board, does not have a standardized meaning prescribed by IFRS, and is therefore unlikely to be comparable to similar measures presented by other companies. Rather, this measure is provided as additional information to complement those IFRS measures by providing further understanding of our results of operations from management's perspective. Accordingly, it should not be considered in isolation nor as a substitute for analysis of our financial information reported under IFRS. We also use certain industry metrics: "Annual Recurring Revenue", "Average Revenue per User", "Gross Merchandise Volume" and "Gross Payments Volume". These industry metrics are unaudited and are not directly derived from our financial statements. The non-IFRS measure and industry metrics are used to provide investors with supplemental measures of our operating performance and thus highlight trends in our core business that may not otherwise be apparent when relying solely on IFRS measures. We also believe that securities analysts, investors and other interested parties frequently use non-IFRS measures and industry metrics in the evaluation of issuers. Our management also uses the non-IFRS measure and industry metrics in order to facilitate operating performance comparisons from period to period, to prepare annual operating budgets and forecasts and to determine components of management compensation.
"Adjusted EBITDA" is defined as Net income (loss) excluding taxes, interest, depreciation and amortization (or EBITDA), as adjusted for stock-based compensation, foreign exchange loss (gain), finance income, and non-recurring equity transaction costs. Adjusted EBITDA does not have a standardized meaning under IFRS and is not a measure of operating income, operating performance or liquidity presented in accordance with IFRS, and is subject to important limitations.
Please refer to "Reconciliation to IFRS from Non-IFRS measures" in this press release for more information.
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Non-IFRS measure. See "Non-IFRS Measures" and the reconciliation to the most directly comparable IFRS measure.
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Key Performance Indicators. See definition in "Key Performance Indicators".
Key Performance Indicators
We monitor the following industry metrics to help us evaluate our business, measure our performance, identify trends affecting our business, formulate business plans and make strategic decisions: "Annual Recurring Revenue" or "ARR", "Average Revenue per User" or "ARPU", "Gross Merchandise Volume" or "GMV", and "Gross Payments Volume" or "GPV". Our key performance indicators may be calculated in a manner different than similar key performance indicators used by other companies.
"ARPU" is the average monthly Revenue per Paying Customer in the quarter. ARPU is calculated by taking the average Revenue for each month in the quarter and dividing this by the average number of Paying Customers for the same quarter.
"ARR" is the annual value of all current Paying Customer subscriptions at the end of the period, with the number of Paying Customers multiplied by 12 times the average monthly subscription plan fee in effect on the last day of that period.
"GMV" is the total dollar value of all transactions of course sales, membership subscriptions, or other products or services by our customers, facilitated through our platform during the period, net of refunds. GMV does not include transactions for course sales, membership subscriptions, or other products or services processed by application programming interfaces or certain apps where the Company does not record the transaction value.
"GPV" is the total dollar value of transactions processed using Thinkific Payments in the period, net of refunds and inclusive of sales taxes where applicable. GPV does not represent revenue earned by us. Penetration rate is the percentage of GMV processed through Thinkific Payments, it is calculated by dividing GPV by GMV for the respective period. We believe that growth in GPV is an indicator of success of our customers in monetizing their learning products and of our Thinkific Payments offering. It is also a positive growth driver of revenue, which is derived from payment processing fees. Revenue earned from Thinkific Payments is included in our commerce revenue.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release includes forward-looking statements and forward–looking information within the meaning of applicable securities laws in Canada. Forward-looking statements and information may relate to our future financial outlook and anticipated events or results ...
