Retail · registry year 2024 · HQ TX
7-Eleven Franchise
A 7-Eleven Inc brand operating in the retail sector, franchising since 1964. According to the 2024 FDD filing for 7-Eleven, this is an editorial comparison record; it does not reproduce the brand's current FDD.
- $37K – $1.6M
- Initial investment · Lower entry cost
- 83,000
- Total locations · Large network
FDD outlay schedule
Registry 7-eleven 7-Eleven
7-Eleven needs $37K–$1.6M to open - an entry cost below the typical retail franchise.
- LO $37K
- HI $1.6M
- UNT 83,000
- I19 Silent
- INV# #202/223
- UNT# #1/223
Same-sector Item 7 peers
Nearest Item 7 peer: Hallmark ($40K)
Same-sector Item 7 neighbourhood for 7-Eleven (registry year 2024). Listed lows only - not a profit, cost-of-living, or suitability claim. Verify the current FDD before relying on these figures. How we place brands →
Franchise Opportunity Health Score
How healthy and transparent 7-Eleven's franchise system looks, from 2 of 2 tracked dimensions.
- Network momentum 0.4% net unit growth (YoY) 25/100 · F
- Financial disclosure Item 19 not disclosed 0/100 · F
Benchmarked against the 223-brand tracked corpus (p10-p90 range per dimension); a higher score means a growing unit count and a disclosed Item 19. See how we place brands.
Where 7-Eleven's investment ranks nationally
7-Eleven's listed Item 7 low of $37K against every one of the 218 tracked franchise brands with a disclosed initial investment. Listed figures only, verify in the current FDD before relying on them.
7-Eleven vs all tracked franchise brands by listed investment
Initial investment low (FDD Item 7), PlainFranchise brand corpus
$37,200 Among the lowest lower than 92% of 218 franchise brands
Franchise brands, banded by listed Item 7 low
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Source PlainFranchise editorial comparison registry · 2024-12-31
Investment Overview
Revenue Data (Item 19)
Item 19 Not Disclosed
This franchisor did not provide financial performance data in their FDD. This is common, disclosure is optional.
Network Size & Growth
Net Growth Rate
Year-over-year unit change
1200 locations closed in the last reporting year
Quick Facts
- Sector
- Retail
- Subsector
- convenience store
- Founded
- 1927
- Franchising Since
- 1964
- Headquarters
- TX
- FDD Year
- 2024
- Item 19
- Not Disclosed
Important Notice · 7-Eleven
This 7-Eleven page is a registry comparison record, not a verified FDD extract. It does not establish suitability, operating costs, profitability, or expected results for 7-Eleven.
National footprint registry read for 7-Eleven
Signature read: 83,000 locations · Item 7 low $37K
7-Eleven, a 7-Eleven Inc franchise, has been franchising since 1964 - 37 years after the concept was founded in 1927 , currently with 83,000 total locations (54,000 franchised, 29,000 company-owned; 65% of the recorded total is franchised) in the retail sector, headquartered in TX. The listed total initial investment is $37K to $1.6M, with separate listed low and high values. The registry records a separate franchise-fee field and does not list every Item 7 component in this summary.
This registry summary does not carry royalty or ad-fund figures for this brand. 7-Eleven has no Item 19 financial-performance field in this registry; the FTC Franchise Rule does not require that disclosure.
The unit count trend here is positive -- 7-Eleven posted 0.4% net growth year-over-year (1500 openings, 1200 closures). The count describes the latest reported period only; the underlying Item 20 tables provide the fuller disclosure context.
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Related reading for 7-Eleven: How to Evaluate a Franchise , 7-Eleven has no Item 19 in this registry, diligence without a financial performance representation.
Snapshot uses the registry's listed Item 7 initial-investment low and Item 20 location-count fields. It is a descriptive comparison, not a ranking or investment recommendation.
How 7-Eleven's Item 7 and Item 19 fields are labeled (expand)
Nationwide brands with similar investment or network size
Two data-derived peer sets for 7-Eleven , both outside HQ state TX : nearest Item 7 lows and nearest total-location counts, not the same-sector roster below.
Similar listed investment
Nearest Item 7 lows ($37K here).
Similar network size
Nearest total location counts (83,000 here).
What to do with this
7-Eleven at a glance, drawn from the same figures above.
- 7-Eleven scores 13/100 (F) on our composite opportunity read, combining net unit growth and Item 19 financial-disclosure transparency.
- Its $37K – $1.6M entry cost runs below the typical retail franchise.
- Ranks #202 of 223 listed franchises by initial investment. See rankings
- Hallmark sits at a comparable investment level ($40K) in the same sector. Compare
Editorial comparison registry, not a source-linked FDD record. Verify the current FDD before relying on any figure.
Read our methodology - what this registry can and cannot establish.
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