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Buckle Inc. BKE

18 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only
$1.3B
▲ 6.6% YoY
$209.7M
▲ 7.3% YoY
$205.8M
▲ 3.0% YoY
In brief

What this company does

As of January 31, 2026, the Company operated 440 retail stores in 42 states throughout the United States under the names "Buckle" and "Buckle Youth." As of January 31, 2026, the Company had approximately 8,000 teammates, of which approximately 2,900 were full-time. In fiscal 2025, Axis Denim, which produces private label denim for the Company, accounted for 20.6% of net sales, with no other vendor accounting for more than 10%. The majority of the Company's central office functions, including purchasing, pricing, accounting, marketing, and distribution, are controlled from its corporate offices and distribution center in Kearney, Nebraska. Incorporated in Nebraska in 1948, the Company commenced business under the name Mills Clothing, Inc., a conventional men's clothing store with only one location. The Company changed its corporate name to The Buckle, Inc. on April 23, 1991.

Written from the business description in BUCKLE INC's annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 1 April 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth
USD 1.3B
Revenue, FY2025 · full 18-year series below
Revenue $B Net income $B
FY2025 · Revenue 1.3 · Net income 0.2
0.5B1.0B2008201120142017202020232025
Compound annual growth
−1.2%
+7.6%
+1.5%
+2.1%
−6.3%
+10.0%
+3.6%
+3.0%
−6.9%
+9.3%
+3.1%
+2.5%
+2.8%
+11.1%
+8.5%
+1.9%
+3.5%
+11.8%
+8.8%
+2.4%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs

Revenue compounded at +7.6% a year over five years — but profit grew faster: net income at +10.0%, earnings per share at +9.3%.

The share count rose from 0.05B to 0.05B over the period.

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.

Profitability
16 cents
of every revenue dollar became profit
Operating margin Net margin
FY2025 · Operating 20.1% · Net 16.2%
10%20%2008201120142017202020232025
ROE
FY2025 · ROE 49.4%
20%40%60%2008201120142017202020232025

Each USD of equity produced 49 cents of profit this year.

Cash & shareholders
USD 225.1M
returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks
Free cash flow $M
FY2025 · FCF 205.8
100M200M2008201120142017202020232025
Net buybacks $M Dividends $M
FY2025 · Dividends 225.1 · Net buybacks —
200M2008201120142017202020232025

USD 225.1M in dividends — 107% of the year's profit, so the payout drew on cash built up earlier.

Total assetsUSD 991.3M
EquityUSD 424.6M
CashUSD 249.5M
Current ratio1.89×

Equity funds 43% of total assets.

The 18-year record
18 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD
row low → row highnegative
Metric 202520242023202220212020201920182017201620152014201320122011201020092008
Revenue $B1.31.21.31.31.30.90.90.90.91.01.11.21.11.11.10.90.90.8
Operating income $B0.30.20.30.30.30.20.10.10.10.20.20.30.30.30.20.20.20.2
EBITDA $B0.30.30.30.30.40.20.20.10.20.20.30.30.30.30.30.20.20.2
Income tax $B0.10.10.10.10.10.00.00.00.00.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.1
Net income $B0.20.20.20.30.30.10.10.10.10.10.10.20.20.20.20.10.10.1
Free cash flow $B0.20.20.20.20.30.20.10.10.10.10.10.20.10.20.20.10.10.1
EPS, diluted $4.143.894.405.135.162.662.141.971.852.033.063.383.393.443.202.862.732.24
Dividend / sh $4.403.903.904.056.992.602.302.002.751.751.943.662.025.303.053.302.602.73
Payout %1071018980136991081021498764109601559511595121
ROE %49.446.755.773.971.833.126.724.421.823.238.445.349.950.342.738.536.831.0
Shares out B0.050.050.050.050.050.050.050.050.050.050.050.050.050.050.050.050.05·

Slide the table for earlier years · "·" marks a figure not available in our data for that year.

Provenance
Company facts, as filed
How we verify · 0 failures in 78 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 18 of 19 fiscal years. 17 checks could not be computed.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquiditymoeda_consistente0 failures
ActivityRetail-Family Clothing Stores
Listed onNYSE
Incorporated inNebraska
Fiscal year endsJanuary 30
Data on record since2008

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