Escalade
ESCA on Nasdaq. Escalade sells sporting goods such as basketball goals, bows and table tennis to retailers. Market value $262m.
Price checks use the past 12 months to June 2026. Quality checks use five annual reports, the latest for the year to December 2025.
Should I look at this?
Not a fit for our list right now
Why it could be worth it
See Retail & consumer stocks that passed both tests
This is not advice. Check the numbers below.
For every $100 of what the whole company costs, it produced $9.91 of spare cash in the past 12 months. A savings account pays about $4.
You pay 8.9 years of operating profit for the business. The average large US company costs around 18.
Each dollar kept in the business earns 8 cents a year. Above 10 is good.
Quality score: 57 of 100. Price score: 100 of 100. Our list needs 70 on quality and 60 on price.
$19.00 a share, 67% above its 1-year low
Over the past year the price has ranged from $11.41 to $23.07.
Dividend: 3.2% a year
Paid every year for at least 5 years
Prices from Monday’s close (5 October).
Five years of cash, in billions
| Revenue | |||||
| Revenue | $314m | $314m | $264m | $252m | $240m |
| Operating margin | |||||
| Operating margin | 10.2% | 8.4% | 6.8% | 8.0% | 7.8% |
| Debt to equity | |||||
| Debt to equity | 0.39 | 0.60 | 0.31 | 0.15 | 0.11 |
| Shares outstanding | |||||
| Shares outstanding | 0.01bn | 0.01bn | 0.01bn | 0.01bn | 0.01bn |
Health checks
- Free cash flow positive4 of 5 years
- Accounting looks honest (Beneish)Nothing unusual
- Financial strength (Piotroski)7 of 8 checks we could run
- Profit backed by cash (accruals)Yes
- Debt0.11× equity
- Revenue growth, five yearsShrinking, 2.6% a year
- Buying back its own sharesRoughly flat
The quarter to June 2026
How the business did, compared with the same quarter a year earlier.
- Sales: $58 million last quarter, up 6% on a year ago.
- Profit: $9 million, up 417% on a year ago.
- It keeps 12 cents of each $1 of sales as operating profit, up from 8 cents a year earlier.
- Spare cash over the past 12 months: $26 million, down from $38 million.
- About the same number of shares as a year ago.
- Sales grew on a year ago in 3 of the last 4 quarters.
| Quarter to | Amount |
|---|---|
| September 2024 | $68m |
| December 2024 | $64m |
| March 2025 | $55m |
| June 2025 | $54m |
| September 2025 | $68m |
| December 2025 | $63m |
| March 2026 | $56m |
| June 2026 | $58m |
| Quarter to | Amount |
|---|---|
| September 2024 | $6m |
| December 2024 | $3m |
| March 2025 | $3m |
| June 2025 | $2m |
| September 2025 | $6m |
| December 2025 | $4m |
| March 2026 | $4m |
| June 2026 | $9m |
From the company's quarterly reports to the SEC.
Dates
- Next results (estimated)
- n/a
- Last annual report (10-K)
- 27 February 2026
- Next quarterly (estimated, 10-Q)
- 29 October 2026
Who owns it
None of the long-term investors we follow own it. 84 funds in all.
Largest holders overall
From 13F filings for the quarter ended 30 June 2026.
Big holders and activists
1 investor owns more than 5%.
- Patrick J GriffinInsider or founder20.6%+0.4 ptsSince 31 December 2024
What they said
Mr. Griffin has acquired his direct equity interests in the issuer through open market purchases using his own cash, as compensation for his services as an officer of the issuer, and as gifts from his family members. Except for those acquisitions described above in Item 3 which…
Read the filing - GRIFFIN ROBERT EPassive investorSold down below 5%Since 31 December 2024
| Holder | Stake | Since | |
|---|---|---|---|
Patrick J Griffin Insider or founder | 20.6%+0.4 pts | 31 December 2024 | What they saidMr. Griffin has acquired his direct equity interests in the issuer through open market purchases using his own cash, as compensation for his services as an officer of the issuer, and as gifts from his family members. Except for those acquisitions described above in Item 3 which… Read the filing |
GRIFFIN ROBERT E Passive investor | Sold down below 5% | 31 December 2024 |
From Schedule 13D and 13G filings: anyone owning more than 5% must file one.
What insiders did
No insider bought shares on the open market in the last 12 months. 4 sold $2m.
- Williams Edward EDirectorSold
- Date
- 13 August 2026
- Shares
- 2,373
- Price
- $20.99
- Value
- $49,805
- Williams Edward EDirectorSold
- Date
- 12 August 2026
- Shares
- 362
- Price
- $20.96
- Value
- $7,589
- Williams Edward EDirectorSold
- Date
- 11 August 2026
- Shares
- 30,315
- Price
- $20.98
- Value
- $635,860
- Baalmann Richard Fenton JRDirectorSold
- Date
- 6 August 2026
- Shares
- 5,000
- Price
- $22.27
- Value
- $111,359
- Glazer Walter P. Jr.DirectorSold
- Date
- 4 August 2026
- Shares
- 16,374
- Price
- $21.08
- Value
- $345,108
- Wawrin StephenCHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICERSold
- Date
- 4 August 2026
- Shares
- 3,177
- Price
- $21.40
- Value
- $67,999
- Glazer Walter P. Jr.DirectorSold
- Date
- 8 May 2026
- Shares
- 1,048
- Price
- $19.80
- Value
- $20,750
- Glazer Walter P. Jr.DirectorSold
- Date
- 7 May 2026
- Shares
- 32,578
- Price
- $19.83
- Value
- $646,022
- Baalmann Richard Fenton JRDirectorSold
- Date
- 11 December 2025
- Shares
- 5,490
- Price
- $13.00
- Value
- $71,370
- Baalmann Richard Fenton JRDirectorSold
- Date
- 10 December 2025
- Shares
- 4,224
- Price
- $13.00
- Value
- $54,912
| Date | Who | Did | Shares | Price | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 August 2026 | Williams Edward E Director | Sold | 2,373 | $20.99 | $49,805 |
| 12 August 2026 | Williams Edward E Director | Sold | 362 | $20.96 | $7,589 |
| 11 August 2026 | Williams Edward E Director | Sold | 30,315 | $20.98 | $635,860 |
| 6 August 2026 | Baalmann Richard Fenton JR Director | Sold | 5,000 | $22.27 | $111,359 |
| 4 August 2026 | Glazer Walter P. Jr. Director | Sold | 16,374 | $21.08 | $345,108 |
| 4 August 2026 | Wawrin Stephen CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER | Sold | 3,177 | $21.40 | $67,999 |
| 8 May 2026 | Glazer Walter P. Jr. Director | Sold | 1,048 | $19.80 | $20,750 |
| 7 May 2026 | Glazer Walter P. Jr. Director | Sold | 32,578 | $19.83 | $646,022 |
| 11 December 2025 | Baalmann Richard Fenton JR Director | Sold | 5,490 | $13.00 | $71,370 |
| 10 December 2025 | Baalmann Richard Fenton JR Director | Sold | 4,224 | $13.00 | $54,912 |
From Form 4 filings: insiders must report trades in their own company's shares within two days.
Warning signs in its filings
Problems the company itself reported to the SEC, in its own words.
None of the warning signs we check for were found.
We look for five warning signs: doubt it can keep going, weak checks on its own accounts, a notice that its past accounts can't be relied on, a change of auditor, and one customer bringing in a big share of sales. We don't check lawsuits, investigations or debt yet.
We checked the auditor's report, internal controls, restatement notices, auditor changes and big customers in the 10-K filed 27 Feb 2026, plus the 10-Q filed 30 Jul 2026 and 5 later 8-Ks.
A 10-K is the yearly report every US company files with the SEC. An 8-K is a short notice of a big event.
What could go wrong
- Sales have shrunk: 2.6% a year.
Whether the price already reflects the risks is what the deep dive is for.
The deep dive
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- What the business is worth, as a range, and the margin of safety at today’s price
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- The three things that would make this a mistake
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