Sporting goods retailer Academy Sports & Outdoor (NASDAQ: ASO) will be reporting earnings this Tuesday morning. Here’s what to expect.
Academy Sports missed analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $1.38 billion, up 3% year on year. It was a satisfactory quarter for the company, with an impressive beat of analysts’ gross margin estimates but a slight miss of analysts’ revenue estimates.
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This quarter, the market is expecting Academy Sports’s revenue to grow 4.8% year on year, a reversal from the 6.6% decrease it recorded in the same quarter last year.
Analysts covering the company have generally reconfirmed their estimates over the last 30 days, suggesting they anticipate the business to stay the course heading into earnings.
Looking at Academy Sports’s peers in the specialty retail segment, some have already reported their Q4 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Dick's delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 59.9%, beating analysts’ expectations by 2.5%, and Bath and Body Works reported a revenue decline of 2.3%, topping estimates by 4.3%. Dick's traded down 1.5% following the results while Bath and Body Works’s stock price was unchanged.
Read our full analysis of Dick’s results here and Bath and Body Works’s results here.
The euphoria surrounding Trump’s November win lit a fire under major indices, but potential tariffs have caused the market to do a 180 in 2025. While some of the specialty retail stocks have shown solid performance in this choppy environment, the group has generally underperformed, with share prices down 9.7% on average over the last month. Academy Sports is down 6.9% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $60.56 (compared to the current share price of $55.67).
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