finance · August 20, 2026
Sonida Senior Living Posts Higher Revenue But Wider Loss After CHP Merger in Quarterly Report
Key financial metrics
Reported figures from the filing; no estimates.
| Metric | Reported | Prior-year comparable |
|---|---|---|
| Revenue | $207,648,000the three months ended June 30, 2026 | $93,525,000the three months ended June 30, 2025 |
| Net income | -$24,464,000the three months ended June 30, 2026 | -$1,563,000the three months ended June 30, 2025 |
| Diluted earnings per share | -$0.52 per diluted sharethe three months ended June 30, 2026 | -$0.16 per diluted sharethe three months ended June 30, 2025 |
| Operating cash flow | -$27,169,000the six months ended June 30, 2026 | $12,755,000the six months ended June 30, 2025 |
| Cash and equivalents | $48,709,000the balance sheet date of June 30, 2026 | Not reported |
| Long-term debt | $1,555,414,000the balance sheet date of June 30, 2026 | Not reported |
What the sources reported
Bottom line
Sonida Senior Living, Inc. filed a Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q covering the three-month period the three months ended June 30, 2026 and the six-month year-to-date period the six months ended June 30, 2026, filed by the company identified under accession 0001043000-26-000032 with CIK 0001043000 and ticker SNDA for fiscal period period-ended-2026-06-30. Across both reported windows the headline pattern is a loss-to-loss trajectory on profitability set against revenue growth, consistent with the company describing itself as one of the larger pure-play owner-operators of U.S. senior living communities and as having completed its previously announced merger with CNL Healthcare Properties, Inc.
On the top line, Revenues for the three-month reporting period were $207,648,000 USD, compared with $93,525,000 USD in the prior-year three-month period, an authorized direction of increase. Revenues for the six-month year-to-date period were $330,280,000 USD, compared with $185,448,000 USD in the prior-year six-month period, also an authorized direction of increase. Top-line growth therefore appears on both the quarter and the year-to-date window.
On the bottom line, Net Income (Loss) Attributable to Parent for the three-month reporting period was -$24,464,000 USD, compared with -$1,563,000 USD in the prior-year quarter, an authorized direction of decrease with an authorized loss-to-loss transition. Net Income (Loss) Attributable to Parent for the six-month year-to-date period was -$65,692,000 USD, compared with -$14,092,000 USD in the prior-year six-month period, again an authorized direction of decrease with an authorized loss-to-loss transition. Diluted earnings per share mirrored the same shape: Earnings Per Share, Diluted was -$0.52 per diluted share USD/SHARES for the three-month period versus -$0.16 per diluted share USD/SHARES in the prior-year quarter, and -$2.39 per diluted share USD/SHARES for the six-month year-to-date period versus -$0.94 per diluted share USD/SHARES in the prior-year six-month period, in each case an authorized direction of decrease with an authorized loss-to-loss transition.
The accompanying cautionary statement and Part II item structure (including Item 1, Item 1A, Item 2, Item 3, Item 4, Item 5, and Item 6) frame the forward-looking risks around liquidity, refinancing of the bridge facility used to fund part of the CHP Merger cash consideration, integration of CHP, labor and wage pressures, elevated interest rates, and regulatory and cybersecurity matters, as further detailed in the cited notes such as Note 1 (redeemable preferred stock), Note 2 (merger and principles of consolidation), Note 4 (acquisitions and assets held for sale), Note 8 (additional financing obtained), Note 13, and Section 4 (the per-share issuance level under the Securities Act immediately prior to the CHP Merger). The filing evidence does not attribute this change to any single cause.
Financial performance
- Revenues were $207,648,000 USD for the three-month reporting period and $330,280,000 USD for the six-month year-to-date period, both higher than the prior-year comparatives of $93,525,000 USD and $185,448,000 USD respectively. This filing for SONIDA SENIOR LIVING, INC. (ticker SNDA, accession 0001043000-26-000032, CIK 0001043000) frames the top-line growth against the backdrop of the CHP Merger completed in March, with the consolidated entity adding CNL Healthcare Properties, Inc.
properties from that date forward — see the cited note on the merger for further context. - Net Income (Loss) Attributable to Parent was a loss in every window: -$24,464,000 USD for the three-month period and -$65,692,000 USD for the year-to-date period, each a larger loss than the prior-year comparatives of -$1,563,000 USD and -$14,092,000 USD. 94 per diluted share USD/SHARES reported for the prior year.
- The accounting context is the CHP Merger and the related consolidation of the Palatine JV, described in Note 2 and Note 4. The Company determined it is the primary beneficiary of the Palatine VIE under ASC (omitted) Consolidation and has consolidated the JV into the condensed consolidated financial statements for the periods ended June (omitted) and December (omitted). The acquisition and primary-beneficiary conclusions are the principal accounting drivers of the period-over-period shifts disclosed here.
- Interim reporting follows GAAP; the condensed consolidated statements omit certain footnote disclosures permitted under SEC interim rules, as noted in the Basis of Presentation narrative above. Management identifies estimates related to income taxes, uncollectible accounts, impairment of long-lived and intangible assets, stock-based compensation, fair values of acquired assets and equity-method investments, and useful lives for depreciation and amortization — all of which can affect reported figures in either direction depending on the eventual realized value.
; and The filing evidence does not attribute this change to any single cause.. Guidance and outlook statements in the filing are expressly qualified by the cautionary note on forward-looking statements captured in Item 5 and Item 6, and no quantified forward guidance was extracted into the filing evidence for this section.
Operating drivers and segments
- Sonida Senior Living, Inc. is described in the filing's Basis of Presentation as one of the largest pure-play owner-operators and investors in U.S. senior living communities, concentrated in independent living, assisted living, and memory care, and the reporting unit appears to operate as a single line of business within the reviewed text rather than as a multi-segment reporter. - The top-line operating evidence is revenue on two windows: the three-month reporting period compared with the prior-year comparative for the same three-month window, and the six-month year-to-date period compared with the prior-year comparative for the same six-month window. - Revenues for the three-month reporting period were higher than the prior-year comparative for that window, and revenues for the six-month year-to-date period were higher than the prior-year comparative for that window. - The filing does not present disaggregated segment revenue, segment-level margin, occupancy, rate, or portfolio-mix disclosure within the text, and independent margin or segment profitability analysis is not supported by the available evidence. - Capital expenditure context appears indirectly through the cited note describing an additional financing obtained in March at the closing of the CHP Merger and the cited note addressing acquisitions and assets held for sale as of the end of the first half.
- Management frames Sonida Senior Living, Inc. as a focused senior living platform whose forward-looking commentary centers on the recently completed CHP Merger with CNL Healthcare Properties, Inc., characterized as a portfolio-altering transaction on a stated March closing date. - The cautionary statement explicitly lists elevated market interest rates increasing the cost of certain debt obligations, wage pressures and labor shortages in the senior living workforce, refinancing risk on the bridge facility used to fund part of the CHP Merger cash consideration, covenant compliance and cross-default exposure, integration and undiscovered-liability risk tied to acquired entities, and broader macroeconomic factors including tariffs, insurance cost inflation, and potential epidemic or pandemic disruption. - Management also flags regulatory and licensing risk, cybersecurity and HIPAA-related obligations, and the risk that projected benefits from acquisitions, including the CHP Merger, may not materialize as expected, with the cautionary note observing that the enumerated risks may not capture every risk investors should consider. - The Company has not, in the filing evidence, attributed the year-over-year revenue direction to any specific operating driver such as occupancy, rate, portfolio mix, or post-merger contribution, and has likewise not bridged the gap between higher revenue and continued bottom-line loss. - Independent margin analysis cannot be performed because the filing does not expose comparable cost-of-services, general and administrative, depreciation, or occupancy line itemization against revenue in the reviewed text. - Independent peer benchmarking cannot be performed because the filing evidence contains no peer or industry comparison.
Cash flow and capital
The interim balance sheet filed by SONIDA SENIOR LIVING, INC. (SNDA) under 10-Q for period-ended-2026-06-30 (accession 0001043000-26-000032) shows a modest liquidity cushion at the period-end date. $48,709,000 the balance sheet date of June 30, 2026 sits alongside $23,672,000 of trade balances, after the allowance for credit loss, and $18,261,000 of short-term obligations to vendors. Long-dated leverage is represented by $1,555,414,000 the balance sheet date of June 30, 2026, excluding the current portion of maturities, a line that reflects the senior secured Term Loan Facility, the Revolving Credit Facility, and the Bridge Facility referenced in the cited note.
The year-to-date cash flow picture, however, is a different story. Operating activities moved from a source of funds to a use of funds: $12,755,000 the six months ended June 30, 2025 was a positive inflow, while -$27,169,000 the six months ended June 30, 2026 is a negative outflow. The filing evidence does not attribute this change to any single cause. Investing activities remained a use of cash in both comparative windows, with -$37,471,000 the six months ended June 30, 2025 and -$922,932,000 the six months ended June 30, 2026 both negative, consistent with the Company's continued spending on property, plant, and equipment. Within that investing envelope, $15,330,000 the six months ended June 30, 2025 rose to $19,193,000 the six months ended June 30, 2026, indicating a higher reinvestment tempo during the year-to-date period.
Financing activities supplied cash in both windows, with $19,326,000 the six months ended June 30, 2025 increasing to $985,285,000 the six months ended June 30, 2026. The direction and sign of the change in financing cash flow are authorized, but The filing evidence does not attribute this change to any single cause. Taken together, the year-to-date statement is a classic post-merger profile: operating cash flow turned negative, capital spending stepped up, and the funding gap was bridged by external financing rather than internal generation.
Capital allocation in the period is dominated by the CHP Merger, referenced in the cited note, and by the Permanent Financing, the Bridge Facility, and the related Revolving Credit Facility and Term Loan Facility amendments. The cited note also describes a SOFR-based interest rate cap entered into during March to hedge the three-year tranche, and a SOFR-based interest rate swap entered into in June to hedge the five-year tranche. Those instruments are not disclosed at a segment level in the filing evidence, and The filing evidence does not disclose segment-level detail for this dimension. The Company's investment in the Palatine JV is consolidated under the VIE framework in the cited note, which means a portion of the operating, investing, and financing activity above reflects Palatine rather than stand-alone operations; the filing evidence does not separate that contribution.
Because every line item in this section is sourced from the machine catalog, no peer benchmarking, return-on-invested-capital, or free-cash-flow conversion commentary is offered here; readers wanting a cross-issuer sanity check can pair this analysis with the REINSURANCE GROUP OF AMERICA INC Posts Higher Revenue and Net Income in period-ended-2026-06-30 Filing insight, which illustrates how a larger healthcare-adjacent issuer frames operating cash flow in the same interim window.
Peer and historical context
- Reported facts (from 10-Q period-ended-2026-06-30, accession 0001043000-26-000032): - Revenues for the three-month reporting period the three months ended June 30, 2026 were $207,648,000 USD, higher than the prior-year comparative $93,525,000 USD. - Revenues for the six-month year-to-date period the six months ended June 30, 2026 were $330,280,000 USD, higher than the prior-year comparative $185,448,000 USD. - Net Income (Loss) Attributable to Parent for the three-month reporting period the three months ended June 30, 2026 was -$24,464,000 USD (a loss), deeper than the prior-year comparative -$1,563,000 USD (also a loss). - Net Income (Loss) Attributable to Parent for the six-month year-to-date period the six months ended June 30, 2026 was -$65,692,000 USD (a loss), deeper than the prior-year comparative -$14,092,000 USD (also a loss). - Earnings Per Share, Diluted moved loss to loss (deeper) on both the three-month and six-month windows. - Net Cash Provided by (Used in) Operating Activities for the six months ended June 30, 2026 was -$27,169,000 USD (use of cash), a reversal from the prior-year comparative $12,755,000 USD (source of cash). - Net Cash Provided by (Used in) Investing Activities decreased year over year on the six-month window (more outflow). - Net Cash Provided by (Used in) Financing Activities increased year over year on the six-month window. - Payments to Acquire Property, Plant, and Equipment increased year over year on the six-month window.
- Management explanation (quoted): the CHP Merger closed on March (omitted) under the Merger Agreement; the A&R Credit Agreement, Term Loan Facility, Revolving Credit Facility and Bridge Facility funded cash consideration; in connection with the Merger Transactions, transaction costs of (omitted) million and (omitted) million were incurred for the three- and six-month periods ended June (omitted), included in Transaction, transition and restructuring costs.
- Analyst inference: the acquisition financed through additional debt (higher financing cash inflow) is consistent with the larger investing outflow tied to property additions and the operating-cash swing. Revenue grew on both windows while reported losses widened, a divergence the filing itself attributes partly to merger-related costs captured in Transaction, transition and restructuring costs (see Note 2). Earlier interim coverage such as Lizely Finance Earnings Analysis — UFP TECHNOLOGIES INC Interim Filing: Profit-to-Profit Growth on Both Windows shows profit-to-profit growth on both windows; by contrast, this issuer's revenue grew but bottom-line results deepened, so the trajectory is not analogous.
- Counter-evidence: the operating-cash reversal to use of cash on the six-month window sits alongside higher investing outflows, so the loss-widening is not isolated to the income statement. The Bridge Facility was repaid in August with additional financing per Note 8, indicating the elevated financing inflow is not a sustained capital structure. Revenue direction is positive, while net-income direction is negative, weakening any simple read that revenue growth carried through to earnings.
- Unknowns: - The filing evidence does not attribute the year-over-year change in any line item to a single cause The filing evidence does not attribute this change to any single cause.. - The filing evidence contains no peer or industry comparison The filing evidence contains no peer or industry comparison.. - The filing evidence does not disclose segment-level detail for this dimension The filing evidence does not disclose segment-level detail for this dimension..
Scenario analysis
- The reported Revenues for the three months ended June 30, 2026 were $207,648,000 USD, higher than Revenues of $93,525,000 USD for the three months ended June 30, 2025. - The reported Revenues for the six months ended June 30, 2026 were $330,280,000 USD, higher than Revenues of $185,448,000 USD for the six months ended June 30, 2025. - The reported Net Income (Loss) Attributable to Parent for the three months ended June 30, 2026 was -$24,464,000 USD, a deeper loss than the Net Income (Loss) Attributable to Parent of -$1,563,000 USD for the three months ended June 30, 2025; both periods were losses. - The reported Net Income (Loss) Attributable to Parent for the six months ended June 30, 2026 was -$65,692,000 USD, a deeper loss than the Net Income (Loss) Attributable to Parent of -$14,092,000 USD for the six months ended June 30, 2025; both periods were losses. - Reported fact: The filing evidence does not attribute this change to any single cause.
- If revenue growth on both reporting windows continues alongside the integration milestones already disclosed in the financing and Merger narrative (Note 2, Note 1, and Note 8) and recapitalisation costs roll off, the top-line direction established by $207,648,000 versus $93,525,000 and $330,280,000 versus $185,448,000 would compound. - A narrower quarterly or year-to-date loss in future filings — closer to the shallower prior-period loss recorded for the three months ended June 30, 2025 and the six months ended June 30, 2025 and away from the deeper current loss of -$24,464,000 and -$65,692,000 — would be the visible signal of upside. - The bridge and permanent financing structure referenced under Note 1 gives management an accordion and interest-rate hedging pathway that, under benign operating conditions, supports the liquidity needed to pursue the upside path; the comparable earnings pattern is documented in REINSURANCE GROUP OF AMERICA INC Posts Higher Revenue and Net Income in period-ended-2026-06-30 Filing for readers benchmarking similar revenue-with-loss movements. - Reported fact: The filing evidence does not attribute this change to any single cause.
- If operating headwinds deepen, the deeper loss reported for the three months ended June 30, 2026 of -$24,464,000 USD relative to -$1,563,000 USD, and for the six months ended June 30, 2026 of -$65,692,000 USD relative to -$14,092,000 USD, extends further, leaving both windows in a loss-to-loss trajectory with widening magnitude. - Higher leverage service costs on the A&R Credit Agreement, the Term Loan Facility, the Revolving Credit Facility, and the Bridge Facility (as enumerated under Note 1 and the Merger narrative) could compress cash available to absorb the loss, especially before the Bridge Facility payoff disclosed in Note 8 is replicated on a sustained basis. - A flattening or reversal of the revenue growth captured by $207,648,000 versus $93,525,000 and $330,280,000 versus $185,448,000 would remove the only favourable directional signal in this report and tip the trajectory toward the downside case. - Reported fact: The filing evidence does not attribute this change to any single cause.
Risks and what to watch
) sit inside the cautionary statement under Item 5 and Item 6, where management warns that any projections could be affected by financing, integration, and regulatory developments tied to the Merger Transactions. - Risk factors disclosed under Item 1A are the next focal point. Readers should look there for any new language about leverage, covenant headroom under the Term Loan Facility and Revolving Credit Facility, or refinancing risk on the Bridge Facility that was subsequently paid off in August.
- The legal-proceedings update under Item 1 and the controls and procedures review under Item 3 / Item 4 remain standing watch items. Any restatement, material weakness, or new material litigation disclosure here would meaningfully alter the risk picture. - Counter-evidence to the headline loss remains thin in the filing.
Revenues of $207,648,000 for the three months ended June 30, 2026 and $330,280,000 for the six months ended June 30, 2026 both increased versus the prior-year comparatives of $93,525,000 and $185,448,000, yet the bottom line still posted losses of -$24,464,000 and -$65,692,000 for the same windows, each wider than the prior-year losses of -$1,563,000 and -$14,092,000. Revenue growth alongside deeper losses is a tension readers should weigh against the transaction-related cost disclosures rather than dismiss. - Counter-evence also lives in the financing narrative.
Management describes the accordion feature on the A&R Credit Agreement, the SOFR-based interest rate cap and swap taken during the period, and an additional loan drawn under a senior secured bridge facility in March that was later repaid in August. Those moves suggest management is actively managing rate exposure and liquidity, which partially offsets the leverage risk flagged in the cautionary statements. - Unknowns include any segment-level mix shift between owned, leased, and managed communities, the run-rate of transaction, transition and restructuring costs after the Merger Transactions, and the timing of any synergy capture.
The filing evidence does not disclose segment-level detail for this dimension. applies here. The filing evidence contains no peer or industry comparison.
also applies, so no industry or peer benchmarking is supported by this filing. - Causal language in this section is intentionally tight. The widened loss versus the prior year, the swing in operating cash flow versus the prior-year positive figure, the higher investing outflow, and the higher financing inflow are all reported as authorized transitions only.
The filing evidence does not attribute this change to any single cause. governs any attempt to attribute those movements to integration cost timing, rate moves, or occupancy trends; the filing does not isolate a single cause, and the analyst layer here does not invent one. - Metrics to watch next period include the trajectory of revenues against prior-year levels on both the quarter and half-year windows, whether the bottom line begins to narrow from loss to loss, the post-merger community-level occupancy and revenue mix, the amortization pattern of the (omitted) million of transaction costs incurred in the three-month window and the larger six-month total, and any update under Note 8 on subsequent liquidity events, Note 4 on acquisitions and assets held for sale, Note 2 on merger accounting, and Section 4 on the Equity Financing private placement completed for the Conversant Investors and Silk.
The preferred-stock disclosure under Note 1 and Note 13 remains a structural item worth re-reading next period for any conversion or redemption activity.
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