---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001628280-25-001223"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "PZZA"
cik: "0000901491"
company_name: "PAPA JOHNS INTERNATIONAL INC"
filed_at: "2025-01-13T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-28T04:19:36.122612+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Papa John's prelim Q4 sales ~$1.2B; NA comps -4%, Intl +2%

## Summary
- Global system-wide sales Q4 ~$1.2B, down 8% YoY but flat ex-53rd week; full year ~$4.9B, -3% YoY.
- North America comparable sales -4% in Q4 (transactions -2%, ticket -2%); full year -4%.
- International comparable sales +2% in Q4; full year down less than 1%.
- Net new restaurants Q4: 122 total (60 NA, 62 Intl); full year 124 (81 NA, 43 Intl).
- Opened 6,000th restaurant in 2024; management cites traffic-driving investments.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001628280-25-001223
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: PZZA
- cik: 0000901491
- company_name: PAPA JOHNS INTERNATIONAL INC
- filed_at: 2025-01-13T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/901491/000162828025001223/0001628280-25-001223-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/901491/000162828025001223/pzza-20250113.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001628280-25-001223.txt

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