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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-25-081392"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "GCO"
cik: "0000018498"
company_name: "GENESCO INC"
filed_at: "2025-06-04T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-20T00:14:44.724969+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.7
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Genesco Q1 sales +4% YoY, comparable sales +5%; loss narrows; reiterates FY adj EPS $1.30-$1.70

## Summary
- Net sales $474M (+4% YoY); comparable sales +5% with Journeys +8%, Schuh +1%, J&MG -2%.
- GAAP EPS ($2.02) vs ($2.22) last year; Non-GAAP EPS ($2.05) vs ($2.10); operating loss narrowed.
- SG&A leveraged 170 bps; gross margin 46.7% adjusted vs 47.6% prior year.
- FY2026 guidance: adj EPS $1.30-$1.70 reaffirmed; total sales growth raised to +1-2% (prior flat to +1%).
- Repurchased 604,531 shares for $12.6M; ended quarter with 1,256 stores (net -26).

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-25-081392
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: GCO
- cik: 0000018498
- company_name: GENESCO INC
- filed_at: 2025-06-04T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.7
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/18498/000095017025081392/0000950170-25-081392-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/18498/000095017025081392/gco-20250604.htm

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