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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: AOUT) designs, sources and sells outdoor lifestyle products and shooting sports accessories for outdoor and recreational consumers, including hunters, anglers, shooting enthusiasts and outdoor cooks. Its products include knives and tools, hunting and land-management equipment,… From the company’s description.

Over the twelve months to Jul 31, 2026, American Outdoor Brands, Inc. reported revenue of $198.09M, down 5.8% from a year earlier, and a net loss of $3.91M. Its operating margin was −2.2%, and operations generated $21.04M in cash. In fiscal 2025, it reported revenue of $190.54M, down 14.3% from fiscal 2024, and a net loss of $9.21M.

Fiscal year 2025 · ends 04-30Changes are against fiscal 2024The amber dot is the latest twelve months, to 2026-07-31
Sales & profitability
$190.54MFY2025
−14.3% year over year
Last 12 mo $198.09M
-4.72%FY2025
−4.7 percentage points
Last 12 mo -2.17%
$-9.21MFY2025
−11858.4% year over year
Last 12 mo $-3.91M
-3.49%FY2025
−3.4 percentage points
Last 12 mo -2.38%
Cash & financing
$6.32MFY2025
+364.7% year over year
Last 12 mo $21.04M
$3.85MFY2025
+251.8% year over year
Last 12 mo $18.45M
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12.6MFY2025
−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: AOUT) designs, sources and sells outdoor lifestyle products and shooting sports accessories for outdoor and recreational consumers, including hunters, anglers, shooting enthusiasts and outdoor cooks. Its products include knives and tools, hunting and land-management equipment, fishing gear, meat-processing and outdoor-cooking products, shooting rests and storage, optics and aiming devices, and reloading, gunsmithing and firearm-maintenance supplies. The company sells through e-commerce and traditional channels, including its own brand websites, online retailers, sporting-goods stores, dealers, distributors and mass-market retailers. Its brands include BOG, BUBBA, Caldwell, Crimson Trace, Frankford Arsenal, Grilla, Hooyman, MEAT! Your Maker, Old Timer, Schrade, Tipton and Wheeler; it also licenses Smith & Wesson-related brands for certain accessories. American Outdoor Brands organizes product development, customer service and marketing around four consumer-focused brand lanes and reports outdoor lifestyle and shooting sports product categories. Grilla, acquired in fiscal 2022, extended the business into outdoor cooking. Net sales were $190.5 million in fiscal 2026, ended April 30, 2026. Its website is AOB.com.

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

Financial performance, year by year

Fiscal 2020–2025 · USD
$-99.04M$3.43M$105.90M$208.37M$310.84M202020212022202320242025Last 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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