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Johnson Outdoors Inc. — Earnings Quality Grade F

JOUT · Consumer Cyclical

Major red flags

Revenue
$592M
2025
Net Income
-$34M
2025
Gross Margin
35.1%
Free Cash Flow
$40M
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Screening Summary

12
Passed
3
Watch
2
Failed
-3.07
M-Score

Management Signals

No recent CEO, CFO, board, or accounting leadership signals found in SEC 8-K filings.
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Financial Trends

Revenue & Net Income ($B)

Margins (%)

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18-Point Screening

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Revenue Quality

A1DSO Change

DSO 31 days, change +6 days YoY

A2AR vs Revenue Growth

AR outpaced revenue for 2 consecutive years

A3Revenue vs CFFO

Revenue -0.1%, CFFO 37.1%. Cash follows revenue

02

Expense Quality

B1Inventory vs COGS

Inventory -18.6% vs COGS -1.9%. Normal

B2CapEx vs Revenue

CapEx growth -27.4% vs revenue -0.1%. Normal

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B3SG&A Ratio

SG&A/Gross Profit = 92.3%, exceeds 70%

B4Gross Margin

Gross margin 35.1%, change +1.2pp. Stable

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Cash Flow Quality

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C1CFFO vs Net Income

CFFO/NI = -1.64. Below 1.0

C2Free Cash Flow

FCF $0.0B, FCF/NI = -1.17

C3Accruals Ratio

Accruals ratio = -15.0%. Low accruals

C4Cash vs Debt

Cash $0.2B covers debt $0.0B

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Balance Sheet Health

D1Goodwill + Intangibles

Goodwill+Intangibles $0.0B = 5% of equity. Manageable

D2Leverage

Debt/EBITDA = 4.2x (>4x). Interest coverage = -72.3x (<2x). Financial stress

D3Soft Asset Growth

Other assets 6.6% vs revenue -0.1%. Normal

D4Asset Impairment

No write-off data

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Acquisition Risk

E1Serial Acquirer FCF

FCF after acquisitions positive

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E2Goodwill Surge

Goodwill+Intangibles surged 140% YoY

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Manipulation Score

F1Beneish M-Score

M-Score = -3.07 (< -2.22). Unlikely manipulator

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Beneish M-Score

Manipulation Probability-3.07
-4.0 Clean-2.22 Grey-1.78 Danger0
1.242
DSRI
AR growing faster than revenue?
0.965
GMI
Gross margin declining?
0.933
AQI
Asset quality deteriorating?
0.999
SGI
Revenue growth rate
0.932
DEPI
Depreciation slowing?
0.951
SGAI
SG&A ratio changing?
-0.1498
TATA
Accruals level
1.217
LVGI
Leverage increasing?
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Altman Z-Score

7.3
Safe Zone
0 Distress1.102.605.0+ Safe
0.5035
Liquidity
0.5326
Cumulative profit
-0.015
Operating efficiency
2.2534
Leverage

Generated from public financial data using forensic accounting frameworks. Not investment advice. Data: Yahoo Finance · 2026-04-25