---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001817358-22-000037"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ASO"
cik: "0001817358"
company_name: "Academy Sports & Outdoors, Inc."
filed_at: "2022-03-29T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-26T15:06:26.975597+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.8
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Academy Sports Q4 comp +13.1%, FY profit record; initiates $0.075 dividend, guides FY22 slightly down

## Summary
- Q4 net sales up 13.2% to $1.8B; FY net sales up 19.1% to $6.77B, both records.
- Q4 GAAP EPS $1.57 vs $0.97; adjusted EPS $1.61 vs $1.09. FY GAAP EPS $7.12 vs $3.79.
- Initiated quarterly cash dividend of $0.075 per share, payable April 14, 2022.
- Repurchased 10.6M shares for $411.4M in fiscal 2021; $188.6M remaining on program.
- FY 2022 guidance: comparable sales -4% to -1%; adjusted EPS $6.70-$7.25, down ~8% at midpoint.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001817358-22-000037
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ASO
- cik: 0001817358
- company_name: Academy Sports & Outdoors, Inc.
- filed_at: 2022-03-29T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.8
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1817358/000181735822000037/0001817358-22-000037-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1817358/000181735822000037/aso-20220329.htm

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