Johnson Outdoors Inc (NASDAQ: JOUT) is a Wisconsin-incorporated outdoor recreation products company that designs, manufactures, and markets branded equipment for fishing, diving, paddling, and camping. Revenue comes from transactional product sales across four segments: Fishing, Diving (SCUBAPRO), Camping, and Watercraft Recreation, sold through specialty retailers, mass-market channels, and direct-to-consumer online. The Fishing segment anchors the portfolio with brands Minn Kota (electric trolling motors, shallow water anchors, marine battery chargers), Humminbird (sonar, GPS, fish-finding electronics), and Cannon (downriggers), manufactured primarily in Mankato, Minnesota and Eufaula, Alabama. The Diving segment sells SCUBAPRO premium recreational and technical dive gear through independent specialty dive stores worldwide and direct-to-consumer online. The company was incorporated in Wisconsin in 1987 and is controlled by Chairman and CEO Helen P. Johnson-Leipold and family-related entities. Johnson Outdoors is a dividend payer, with total dividends declared of $13,530 thousand in fiscal 2025. The company reported a pretax loss of $29,862 thousand in fiscal 2024 versus pretax income of $25,824 thousand in fiscal 2023.
Fishing: Minn Kota electric trolling motors, shallow water anchors, and marine battery chargers; Humminbird sonar, GPS, and marine cartography equipment; Cannon downriggers. Diving: SCUBAPRO regulators, buoyancy compensators, dive computers, gauges, wetsuits, masks, fins, snorkels, and accessories. Camping and Watercraft Recreation: portable outdoor cooking systems, kayaks, and canoes.
Transactional product sales of branded outdoor recreation hardware through specialty retailers, mass-market channels, and direct-to-consumer e-commerce. No subscription or licensing revenue model is disclosed in the filing.
Recreational boating and fishing consumers, premium recreational and technical divers served through independent specialty dive stores worldwide, and outdoor recreation consumers in backpacking, camping, paddling, and kayaking markets. Products are seasonal and demand is tied to warm-weather outdoor recreation activity.
Primary manufacturing and sales base in the United States. SCUBAPRO diving products are sold globally through independent specialty dive stores worldwide. Manufacturing facilities also operate in Italy, Indonesia, and South Africa. The company is exposed to cross-border trade risk, including U.S. tariff frameworks that have increased production costs as disclosed in the FY2025 10-K filing.
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