secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     ESCALADE INC (ESCA)
CIK:        0000033488
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2025-02-26T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001437749-25-005144
Event type: earnings
Sentiment:  positive
Materiality: 0.70
Item codes: 2.02, 8.01, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Escalade reports Q4 net sales down 2.4% to $63.9M; full-year net income up to $0.93 diluted EPS
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- Q4 net sales $63.9M (-2.4% YoY); gross margin improved 61 bps to 24.9%; operating income $4.5M (-9.0%).
- Full year 2024 net sales $251.5M (-4.6%); net income $13.0M ($0.93 diluted EPS) vs $9.8M ($0.71) in 2023.
- Board declared $0.15 quarterly dividend payable Apr 14, 2025 to holders of record Apr 7, 2025.
- Board authorized reset of share repurchase program for up to $20M in future repurchases; no expiration.
- Net debt to trailing EBITDA ratio improved to 0.8x at Dec 31, 2024 from 2.2x at end of 2023.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/33488/000143774925005144/0001437749-25-005144-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/33488/000143774925005144/esca20250225_8k.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-25-005144

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