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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001171843-25-002722"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "JOUT"
cik: "0000788329"
company_name: "JOHNSON OUTDOORS INC"
filed_at: "2025-05-02T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-22T23:21:24.621146+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Johnson Outdoors Q2 net sales down 4% to $168.3M, EPS $0.22; warns tariffs will impact business

## Summary
- Fishing revenue fell 3%, Camping & Watercraft down 12%, Diving down 7%; Jetboil growth partially offset.
- Operating profit of $4.9M vs. $(0.25M) loss a year ago; gross margin flat at 35.0%.
- Year-to-date net loss of $(13.0M), or $(1.26) per share, vs. net income of $6.1M prior year.
- CEO cites tariffs as a headwind despite U.S. manufacturing; mitigation strategies underway.
- Quarterly dividend of $0.32/share paid April 24, 2025; cash and short-term investments $94.0M.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001171843-25-002722
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: JOUT
- cik: 0000788329
- company_name: JOHNSON OUTDOORS INC
- filed_at: 2025-05-02T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/788329/000117184325002722/0001171843-25-002722-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/788329/000117184325002722/f8k_050125.htm

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