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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001564590-22-004716"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "URBN"
cik: "0000912615"
company_name: "URBAN OUTFITTERS INC"
filed_at: "2022-02-11T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-27T08:57:56.731037+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.7
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Urban Outfitters reports record Q4 sales $1.33B, up 13.9% vs FY2020; appoints new Urban Pres.

## Summary
- Total Q4 net sales $1.33B (+13.9% vs Q4 FY2020); comp retail +14% driven by digital, partly offset by store traffic declines.
- Free People Group comp +49%, Anthropologie Group +14%, Urban Outfitters +3%.
- Q4 gross margin likely to deleverage more than planned due to higher inbound transportation costs.
- Francis Pierrel appointed President of Urban Outfitters NA, reporting to CEO Sheila Harrington; previously CEO of Club Monaco.
- FY2022 net sales $4.55B (+14.2% vs FY2020); added 56 new retail locations, closed 18.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001564590-22-004716
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: URBN
- cik: 0000912615
- company_name: URBAN OUTFITTERS INC
- filed_at: 2022-02-11T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.7
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/912615/000156459022004716/0001564590-22-004716-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/912615/000156459022004716/urbn-8k_20220210.htm

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