---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001817358-24-000035"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ASO"
cik: "0001817358"
company_name: "Academy Sports & Outdoors, Inc."
filed_at: "2024-03-21T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-04T10:19:58.360421+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.7
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Academy Sports Q4 net sales +2.8%, EPS $2.21 (+12.2%); full year sales -3.7%, dividend up 22%

## Summary
- Q4 net sales $1,794.8M (+2.8% YoY); comparable sales -3.6%, improving from -8.0% in Q3.
- Q4 GAAP diluted EPS $2.21, up 12.2% YoY; full-year GAAP diluted EPS $6.70, down 10.5%.
- Full-year net sales $6,159.3M (-3.7%); comparable sales -6.5%; net income $519.2M (-17.3%).
- Quarterly dividend increased 22%; opened 7 new stores in Q4, 14 in fiscal 2023.
- Included $15.9M gain from credit card fee litigation settlement in Q4.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001817358-24-000035
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ASO
- cik: 0001817358
- company_name: Academy Sports & Outdoors, Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-03-21T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.7
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1817358/000181735824000035/0001817358-24-000035-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1817358/000181735824000035/aso-20240321.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001817358-24-000035
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001817358-24-000035.txt

## Key facts
- Earnings Releases
  Academy Sports & Outdoors, Inc. reported financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended February 3, 2024.
  - Period: the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended February 3, 2024
  - Result: reported results
  source text: On March 21, 2024, Academy Sports and Outdoors, Inc. (the “Company”) issued a press release announcing financial results for the fiscal year ended February 3, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1817358/000181735824000035/0001817358-24-000035-index.htm

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