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American Outdoor Brands, Inc.

Consumer DiscretionaryMisc. Manufacturing
Ticker AOUTCOLUMBIA, MOFiscal year ends AprilBook value per share $13.10Diluted shares 12.6M

American Outdoor Brands, Inc. (Nasdaq: AOB) operates as a leading provider of outdoor lifestyle products and shooting sports accessories designed for rugged outdoor enthusiasts. The company's website is located at AOB.com. The company conceives, designs, produces or sources, and sells a comprehensive portfolio of… From the company’s description.

Fiscal year 2026 · ends 04-30Changes are against fiscal 2025The amber dot is the latest twelve months, to 2026-07-31
Sales & profitability
$190.54M
−14.3% year over year
Last 12 mo $198.09M
-4.72%
−4.7 percentage points
Last 12 mo -2.17%
$-9.21M
−11858.4% year over year
Last 12 mo $-3.91M
-3.51%
−3.5 percentage points
Last 12 mo -2.38%
Cash & financing
$6.32M
+364.7% year over year
Last 12 mo $21.04M
$3.85M
+251.8% year over year
Last 12 mo $18.45M
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12.6M
−1.7% year over year
Last 12 mo 12.6M

Margins and return on equity change in ; everything else in percent. Fewer shares and less debt are shown plainly, not as bad news — it depends what you make of buybacks. Dotted labels explain each measure. is shown separately from the annual figures.

What American Outdoor Brands, Inc. does

In the company’s own words

American Outdoor Brands, Inc. (Nasdaq: AOB) operates as a leading provider of outdoor lifestyle products and shooting sports accessories designed for rugged outdoor enthusiasts. The company's website is located at AOB.com. The company conceives, designs, produces or sources, and sells a comprehensive portfolio of products spanning hunting, fishing, meat processing, outdoor cooking, shooting, and personal security and defense categories.

The company's product offerings include premium sportsman knives and tools for fishing and hunting, land management tools, meat processing equipment, outdoor cooking products, shooting range accessories, electro-optical devices including hunting optics and firearm aiming devices, and reloading and gunsmithing supplies. American Outdoor Brands operates under 19 distinct brands organized into two primary categories: outdoor lifestyle and shooting sports. Key owned brands include BOG, BUBBA, Caldwell, Crimson Trace, Frankford Arsenal, Grilla, Hooyman, Imperial, LaserLyte, Lockdown, MEAT! Your Maker, Old Timer, Schrade, Tipton, Uncle Henry, and Wheeler. The company also licenses brands including M&P, Smith & Wesson, and Performance Center by Smith & Wesson.

The company employs approximately 46 product designers, engineers, quality and sourcing specialists, and software developers across five in-house product development laboratories, with approximately 17 percent of total employees focused on research and development activities. American Outdoor Brands distributes products through both e-commerce and traditional distribution channels, including sports specialty stores, sporting goods retailers, mass market retailers, and home and auto retailers. The company's largest customer, the world's largest e-commerce retailer, accounted for 18.3 percent of net sales in fiscal 2026.

For the fiscal year ended April 30, 2026, the company reported net sales of $190.5 million and gross profit of $85.2 million. The company maintains total assets of $226.6 million as of April 30, 2026. American Outdoor Brands has completed 34 acquisitions over the past 18 years, with the fiscal 2022 acquisition of Grilla representing entry into the estimated $7 billion outdoor cooking market. The company holds more than 440 issued and pending patents and maintains registered and unregistered trademarks protecting its intellectual property portfolio.

Company details
Sector
Consumer Discretionary
Industry
Misc. Manufacturing
Headquarters
COLUMBIA, MO
Fiscal year end
April
CIK
1808997
SIC
3949

Financial performance, year by year

Fiscal 2021–2026 · USD
$-99.04M$3.43M$105.90M$208.37M$310.84M202120222023202420252026Last 12 moLast 12 monthsLast 12 months

The full income statement, balance sheet and cash flow for each of these years — every figure traceable to its filing — is on the Financials tab with a free account.

Ownership

Who owns American Outdoor Brands, Inc. — and what changed

Funds as of 2026Q2 · superinvestors as of 2026-06-30

89
funds hold it
0 of 35
superinvestors hold it
$50.03M
held by funds, at market
35.4%
of shares held by funds

Largest fund holders · American Outdoor Brands, Inc.’s weight in each

Brandes Small Cap Value Fund
BSCAX · Datum One Series Trust
2.27%of fund net assets
0.81%of fund net assets
VANGUARD TOTAL STOCK MARKET INDEX FUND
VTI · VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS
0.00%of fund net assets
Royce Micro-Cap Fund
RYOTX · ROYCE FUND
0.79%of fund net assets
0.07%of fund net assets

Fund ownership is a floor, not a census — pensions, insurers and people holding shares directly are not visible here.

Fund ownership counts N-PORT filers only, so it is a floor rather than a census — pensions, insurers and direct holders are not visible here, and the remainder is not “held by individuals”.

Could not be determined for this company: bond issues.

Every fund and institutional holder, quarter by quarter, is on the Ownership tab with a free account.

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