Academy Sports & Outdoors, Inc. ASO
What this company does
Written from the business description in Academy Sports & Outdoors, Inc.'s annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 17 March 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.
Revenue compounded at +1.2% a year over five years — but profit grew faster: net income at +4.1%, earnings per share at +7.9%.
The share count fell from 0.09B to 0.06B — the buyback concentrates the same profit into fewer slices.
Compound annual rates per period — left blank where that exact year isn't on file, the series crosses a loss, or (per-share rows) a split falls inside the window.
Each USD of equity produced 18 cents of profit this year.
| Metric | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue $B | 6.1 | 5.9 | 6.2 | 6.4 | 6.8 | 5.7 | 4.8 | 4.8 |
| Operating income $B | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.1 |
| EBITDA $B | 0.6 | 0.7 | 0.8 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.3 |
| Income tax $B | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Net income $B | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.0 |
| Free cash flow $B | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 0.1 |
| EPS, diluted $ | 5.54 | 5.73 | 6.70 | 7.49 | 7.12 | 3.79 | 1.60 | 0.29 |
| Dividend / sh $ | 0.13 | 0.11 | 0.09 | 0.07 | · | · | · | · |
| Payout % | 9 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | · | · |
| ROE % | 18.0 | 21.1 | 29.0 | 40.6 | 52.1 | 27.8 | · | · |
| Shares out B | 0.06 | 0.07 | 0.07 | 0.08 | 0.09 | 0.09 | · | · |
Slide the table for earlier years · "·" marks a figure not available in our data for that year.
Reconciled in 8 of 19 fiscal years. 57 checks could not be computed.