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AI brief of an SEC Form 8-K · Academy Sports + Outdoors (ASO)

Academy Sports Q3 EPS rises 14% to $1.05; narrows 2025 guidance, lowers top end

Mixed Impact 4 of 5 guidance Written later

Academy Sports and Outdoors reported third-quarter fiscal 2025 net sales of $1.38 billion, up 3.0%, with comparable sales down 0.9% and diluted GAAP earnings per share of $1.05, up 14.1%. The company narrowed its full-year guidance: the sales range is now -2.0% to flat (previously -3.0% to +1.0%), and GAAP EPS is now $5.35 to $5.85 (previously $5.30 to $6.00), so the top of both ranges came down while the bottom of the sales and gross margin ranges moved up.

Key points

  • Q3 net sales $1.38 billion, up 3.0%; comparable sales down 0.9%
  • Q3 diluted GAAP EPS $1.05 vs. $0.92 a year earlier; year-to-date diluted EPS $3.57, down 7.5%
  • Fiscal 2025 sales guidance narrowed to -2.0% to flat; GAAP EPS guidance $5.35 to $5.85
  • Gross margin guidance low end raised to 34.3% from 34.0%; quarterly dividend of $0.13 declared December 4, 2025

The filing

CompanyAcademy Sports + Outdoors (ASO)
Form8-K, current report
Filed with the SECDec 9, 2025, 8:03 AM ET
Accession number0001817358-25-000189

Items reported: 2.02 Results of Operations7.01 Regulation FD Disclosure

Read the filing on SEC.gov ↗

Written by AI (Anthropic Claude, claude-haiku-5-5) on Nov 8, 2026, 1:01 AM ET, from the text of the filing and its press-release exhibits only. Written later: this filing was briefed after the fact, when past filings were added to the site, so the brief may be read with hindsight; the filing itself is the record of what was known on December 09, 2025.

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