---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001437749-24-018655"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BBW"
cik: "0001113809"
company_name: "BUILD-A-BEAR WORKSHOP INC"
filed_at: "2024-05-30T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-01T07:19:47.852942+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.7
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Build-A-Bear Q1 revenue $114.7M (-4.4% YoY); EPS $0.82 (-16.3%)

## Summary
- Q1 total revenues $114.7M, down 4.4%; pre-tax income $15.0M, down 22.3%; diluted EPS $0.82, down 16.3%.
- E-commerce demand fell 11.3%; SG&A expense rose 350 bps due to higher wage rates, expense timing, and inflation.
- Reaffirmed FY2024 guidance: low-to-mid-single-digit total revenue growth, low-single-digit pre-tax income growth vs 53-week FY2023.
- Returned $12.1M to shareholders in Q1 ($9.2M share repurchases, $2.9M dividend); $15M remaining under buyback authorization.
- Net new 6 global experience locations in Q1; targeting at least 50 new locations in FY2024.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-24-018655
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BBW
- cik: 0001113809
- company_name: BUILD-A-BEAR WORKSHOP INC
- filed_at: 2024-05-30T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: negative
- 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/1113809/000143774924018655/0001437749-24-018655-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1113809/000143774924018655/bbw20240530_8k.htm

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