Escalade, Incorporated (ESCA)

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Escalade, Incorporated's filings since 2017 show 2 warning events of 2 kinds: an auditor change (8-K item 4.01, the latest 2024-05-17); a late-report notice (Form NT 10-K or NT 10-Q, the latest 2024-03-18) (its current reports).

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Escalade, Incorporated's 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $190 million in fiscal 2016 to $240 million in fiscal 2025, up 2.6% a year; it rose in 5 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 23% from fiscal 2022 to fiscal 2025; net income was positive in 10 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Escalade, Incorporated's diluted share count grew about 0.4% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 24% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 13 sales and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-10 (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Escalade, Incorporated earned about 8 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 29 cents per dollar of everything the company owns (revenue less the cost of revenue). Leverage: it owed about 22 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 1.3% over the year (the filed statements).

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Escalade, Incorporated's standing among 12 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $240 million in fiscal 2025 ranks in the bottom 46% by size; a net margin of 5.7% ranks in the top 21%; revenue growth of -8.5% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 13% (its annual reports).

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Escalade, Incorporated's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Griffin, Patrick J (PRESIDENT & CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2026-03-03, 8 months (bottom 6% of its family); the 6 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 14.4 years (top 6%); 6 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 6 people in charge now (bottom 22%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

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Escalade, Incorporated's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $12 million against debt of $11 million leaves 0.3% of its assets as net cash, bottom 29% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 11.9% of revenue (top 21%); a gross margin of 26.9% (bottom 13%); research spending of 1.3% of revenue (bottom 5%) (its annual report).

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Escalade, Incorporated's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew -8.5% a year over the last three filed years against 2.6% over all 10, slowing (bottom 29% of its family); the newest year grew -4.5% (bottom 29%); research spending grew 5.8% a year (top 35%); capital spending grew 6% a year (top 46%) (its annual reports). Escalade, Incorporated tags no split of its revenue by line in the annual report on file, so growth by line cannot be read here; research and capital spending are on the trend.

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Escalade, Incorporated's newest year against its own record: revenue of $240 million in fiscal 2025 came in 6.6% above the $225 million its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 25% of its family); net income of $14 million against a prior three-year average of $14 million (top 35%); a net margin of 5.7% against 4.9% before (top 25%) (its annual reports).