Escalade, Incorporated

ESCA

Leisure · Consumer Cyclical

Price

$19.24

-0.13 (-0.67%)

Market Cap

$265.6M

Exchange

NASDAQ

Winston Score

Winston is curious

Mixed quality — meaningful strengths and weaknesses.

Escalade, Incorporated, together with its subsidiaries, manufactures, distributes, imports, and sells sporting goods in North America, Europe, and internationally. The company provides various sporting goods brands in basketball goals, archery, indoor and outdoor game recreation, and fitness products. It offers archery products under the Bear Archery, Trophy Ridge, Whisker Biscuit, Cajun Bowfishing, Karnage, Fletcher, SIK, BearX, and Rocket brand names; table tennis products under the STIGA and

Winston Score History

Share count broadly stable

−0.0% over 4y

The share count has stayed roughly flat over this period — little dilution or buyback activity.

Diluted shares outstanding: 13.9M (2021) → 13.9M (2025)

Score breakdown

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Quality

Gross Margin

29.7%

Modest — 29.7% gross margin

Operating Margin

10.5%

Modest — 10.5% operating margin

ROCE

3.0%

Weak — 3.0% return on capital

ROIC between 0% and 5%. They earn a few cents back per dollar invested in the business.

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Growth

Sales YoY

-3.7%

Shrinking sales (-3.7% YoY)

EPS YoY

+10.9%

Earnings growing (10.9% YoY)

Healthy double-digit earnings growth — what compounders look like.

EPS Consistency

4/8 quarters

Earnings inconsistent quarter-to-quarter

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Cash Flow

Cash Conversion

216%

Turns 216% of profit into real cash

FCF Margin

12.7%

Converts sales into free cash efficiently (12.7%)

FCF margin between 10% and 20%. Every $100 in sales becomes $10 to $20 in real cash.

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Stability

Debt / Equity

0.10

Conservative — low debt load (0.10)

Interest Cover

26.81x

Comfortably covers interest (26.8x)

Interest coverage above 8. Profits cover interest many times over.

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Valuation

P/E Ratio (TTM)

17.2x

Fair value — P/E 17.2

P/E in the normal range. Price is roughly $15 for every $1 of yearly profit.

P/E vs Forward

-0.5

SLOWING

Earnings expected to fall — forward P/E higher than today

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Dividends

Dividend Yield

3.15%

Moderate income — 3.15% yield

Standard yield zone for stable dividend payers. A meaningful piece of total return.

Dividend Growth

+0.8%

Dividend flat

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