secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     ESCALADE INC (ESCA)
CIK:        0000033488
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2026-02-27T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001437749-26-005968
Event type: earnings
Sentiment:  positive
Materiality: 0.75
Item codes: 2.02, 8.01, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Escalade Q4 net income up 37%; full-year EPS $0.99; raises dividend to $0.1525
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- Q4 net sales $62.6M (-2.2% YoY); gross margin +280 bps to 27.7%.
- Q4 net income $3.7M ($0.27 diluted) vs $2.7M ($0.19); EBITDA $6.5M (+9.3%).
- Full year net sales $240.2M (-4.5%); net income $13.7M ($0.99) vs $13.0M ($0.93).
- Total debt down 27.9% to $18.5M; net leverage 0.3x; cash from ops $14.9M.
- Completed AllCornhole acquisition, added 110K sq ft facility; Gold Tip Archery accretive in Q4.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/33488/000143774926005968/0001437749-26-005968-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/33488/000143774926005968/esca20260226_8k.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-26-005968

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