---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001437749-24-007743"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BBW"
cik: "0001113809"
company_name: "BUILD-A-BEAR WORKSHOP INC"
filed_at: "2024-03-14T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-04T18:48:42.963562+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Build-A-Bear posts record FY2023 revenue $486.1M, EPS $3.65 (+15.9%); initiates $0.20 quarterly dividend

## Summary
- FY total revenues $486.1M (+3.9%); pre-tax income $66.3M (+7.1%); diluted EPS $3.65 (+15.9%).
- Q4 total revenues $149.3M (+2.9%); diluted EPS $1.57 (+12.9%); adjusted EPS decreased 3.6%.
- Initiated quarterly dividend of $0.20 per share, payable April 11, 2024 to holders of record March 28, 2024.
- FY2024 outlook: total revenue growth low-to-mid single digits; pre-tax income growth low single digits; at least 50 new locations globally.
- In FY2023 returned $42.4M to shareholders via special dividend and buybacks; $23.5M remaining in repurchase program as of March 11.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-24-007743
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BBW
- cik: 0001113809
- company_name: BUILD-A-BEAR WORKSHOP INC
- filed_at: 2024-03-14T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1113809/000143774924007743/0001437749-24-007743-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1113809/000143774924007743/bbw20240313c_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-24-007743.txt

## Key facts
- Earnings Releases
  BUILD-A-BEAR WORKSHOP INC updated its the fourth quarter and fiscal year 2023 ended February 3, 2024 guidance (initiated).
  - Period: the fourth quarter and fiscal year 2023 ended February 3, 2024
  - Guidance: initiated
  - Result: reported results
  source text: On March 14, 2024, Build-A-Bear Workshop, Inc. (the “Company”) issued a press release setting forth results for the Company’s fourth quarter and fiscal year 2023 ended February 3, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1113809/000143774924007743/0001437749-24-007743-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.