secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     ESCALADE INC (ESCA)
CIK:        0000033488
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2025-05-05T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001437749-25-014374
Event type: earnings
Sentiment:  positive
Materiality: 0.65
Item codes: 2.02, 8.01, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Escalade Q1 net income up 46% to $0.19 diluted EPS; revenue down 3.2% to $55.5M
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- Net sales $55.5M (-3.2% YoY); operating income $3.7M (+19.3%).
- Gross margin 26.7%, up 161 bps YoY, driven by lower costs.
- Net income $2.6M ($0.19 diluted EPS) vs $1.8M ($0.13) a year ago.
- Generated $3.8M operating cash flow; repaid $1.8M debt, $2.1M dividends, $1.4M buybacks.
- Dividend of $0.15/share declared, payable July 14 to holders of record July 7.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/33488/000143774925014374/0001437749-25-014374-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/33488/000143774925014374/esca20250502_8k.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-25-014374

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