H. Andrew Fulmer
Thanks, Brian. In fiscal 2025, we delivered net sales and profitability above our expectations and maintained a strong balance sheet, all while continuing to return capital to shareholders through our share repurchase program. We ended the year with several achievements and highlights. So let me walk you through the details. Net sales for the year were $222.3 million, an increase of 10.6% compared to fiscal 2024, driven by growth in every sales channel and category. Our traditional channel net sales grew by 18.1%, and our e-commerce net sales increased slightly compared to last year. As a reminder, our e-commerce channel includes direct-to-consumer sales from our own websites as well as sales by online retailers that do not have brick-and-mortar stores. Our direct-to-consumer net sales for fiscal '25 were $29.6 million compared to $29.1 million last year. Domestic net sales increased by almost 10%, while our international net sales grew 20% compared to fiscal 2024. Turning now to our sales categories. In our outdoor lifestyle category, which consists of products relating to hunting, fishing, outdoor cooking and rugged outdoor activities, net sales grew by 16.2%, driven mainly by sales in our BUBBA, MEAT! Your Maker and BOG brands. In our shooting sports category, which includes solutions for target shooting, aiming solutions, safe storage, cleaning and maintenance and personal protection, net sales grew by 3.8% compared to last year, driven mainly by sales in our Caldwell brand. It's worth noting that one of our long-term strategic goals is to grow our shooting sports business by expanding into more stable product categories, such as shotgun sports. We made great progress on that objective in fiscal 2025 with the launch of our Caldwell ClayCopter, which is getting great traction at retail. On a quarterly basis, net sales in Q4 came in well ahead of our expectations at $61.9 million, almost 34% above the prior year quarter. As Brian indicated, retailers accelerated their order placements in the last few weeks of our fourth quarter. We believe this effectively pulled forward approximately $8 million to $10 million of net sales we had originally included in our fiscal 2026 outlook. Even without that acceleration, our fourth quarter still would have come in ahead of our expectations at about $53 million, a great result. We're also pleased that our outdoor lifestyle category delivered 53% year-over-year growth in Q4, and our shooting sports delivered 15.7% year-over-year growth. Turning to gross margin. Fiscal '25 gross margins increased 60 basis points over fiscal 2024 to 44.6% as expected. The increase was mainly due to higher sales volumes partially offset by higher tariff and freight costs. We're pleased with this result, which is consistent with our long-term target for gross margins in the mid-40s. Turning now to operating expenses. For the full year, GAAP operating expenses totaled $99.4 million, a slight decrease from $100.9 million in the prior year. As a percentage of net sales, we improved efficiency by reducing operating expenses from 50% to 45%, reflecting strong operating leverage. This 500 basis point improvement was primarily driven by lower intangible amortization and reduced legal expenses partially offset by increased variable costs in selling, distribution and employee compensation. It's important to note that within variable costs, our labor component actually decreased as a percentage of sales. This improving labor efficiency is a validation of our decision to invest in our footprint by taking over the full lease at our Missouri facility in fiscal 2024. I'm pleased with our OpEx improvement in fiscal 2025, which reflects our disciplined approach to consistently avoiding unnecessary expenses. This philosophy helps us maintain a lean, agile and asset-light model that can adapt to change without requiring abrupt cost cuts. Non-GAAP operating expenses for fiscal 2025 were $86.9 million compared to $84.1 million last year. Non-GAAP operating expenses exclude intangible amortization, stock compensation and certain nonrecurring expenses as they occur. GAAP EPS for fiscal '25 was a loss of $0.01 compared to a loss of $0.94 in the prior year, while non-GAAP EPS in fiscal 2025 was $0.76 compared to $0.32 in fiscal 2024. Our fiscal '25 figures are based on our fully diluted share count of approximately 12.8 million shares. And for fiscal 2026, we expect our fully diluted share count will be about 12.9 million shares outside of any share buybacks that may occur. Full year adjusted EBITDA in fiscal 2025 was $17.7 million, up 80.8% over fiscal 2024. Turning to the balance sheet and cash flow. We continue to strengthen our balance sheet, ending the quarter with cash of $23.4 million and no debt after repurchasing approximately $3.8 million of our common stock. During fiscal 2025, we generated cash from operations of $1.4 million, which was lower than last year. You'll recall that last year, we cleared out some slow-moving inventory in Q4, taking our inventories to fairly low levels. This year, we brought inventories up to more normal levels, and we purposely invested in the new products Brian described earlier. An increase of $13.6 million in accounts receivable resulted from the strong order volume we received in the last 3 weeks of the year. That order volume also drove our inventories down at year-end to $104.7 million. Looking ahead to fiscal 2026, we expect inventory seasonality similar to fiscal 2025. We expect inventory to increase in Q1 and Q2 as we prepare for hunting and holiday seasons and then decrease in Q3 and Q4 with a target to end fiscal 2026 at about $100 million. Our balance sheet remains strong and debt-free. We ended the year with no balance on our $75 million line of credit. So as of Q4, we have total available capital of roughly $115 million. Turning to capital expenditures. We ended the year with CapEx of $3.9 million. And for fiscal 2026, we expect to spend about the same amount, mainly for product tooling, maintenance and patent investments. Lastly, we continue to return capital to our shareholders through our share repurchase program. During fiscal 2025, we've repurchased roughly 374,000 shares of common stock at an average price of $10.11 per share. And at year-end, we still have roughly $7.2 million of availability remaining on our $10 million share repurchase program, which runs through September 2025. Now turning to our outlook. Our POS trends have remained strong on a relative basis, reflecting ongoing underlying demand for our products and indicating that our innovation continues to break through. In fact, one key retail partner recently shared that our new ClayCopter has already generated more sales than all other clay throwers combined. It's a great moment to be powered by a strong innovation engine. That said, the macro environment remains uncertain and tariff policies continue to evolve, and the impact of those factors on consumer behavior, particularly in the back half of the year, remains unknown. In addition, we believe many retailers across the consumer goods landscape have built up their inventories in anticipation of tariff-driven price increases from suppliers. As a result, we would not be surprised to see a more conservative posture from them, focusing on optimizing current inventory levels and closely monitoring consumer demand. Given this uncertainty, alongside the acceleration of orders from fiscal 2026 into our fiscal 2025 results, we are suspending our previously issued net sales guidance for fiscal 2026. This decision reflects prudence, not a change in conviction. The strategic achievements Brian outlined, along with our strong balance sheet, debt-free position and flexible capital allocation strategy, give us the agility we believe is critical in navigating the year ahead. Let me share some thoughts on how we're approaching fiscal 2026. First, seasonality. Our business is seasonal in nature with Q1 typically coming in as our lowest net sales quarter, Q2 and Q3 as the highest net sales quarters and Q4 coming in higher than Q1. We expect this pattern will continue in fiscal 2026. However, the acceleration of orders that we experienced at the end of Q4 will have an outsized impact on our first quarter net sales and, to a lesser degree, the remainder of the year. Next, turning to gross margins. I'll begin by discussing the current tariff landscape and our existing efforts to minimize the impact of additional tariffs on our gross margins. As we've discussed before, the majority of our products are manufactured in China by supply chain partners with whom we have long-standing relationships. Some of our products are impacted by the Section 301 China tariffs, which were enacted in 2018, with tariff rates of 7.5% or 25%. More recently, we're impacted by 2 additional tariffs. First, the steel and aluminum tariffs under Section 232 with a rate set at 50%. These tariffs impact a small number of our products, mainly grills. Second, the IEEPA tariffs, which are set at an incremental 30%, and that includes 10% reciprocal and 20% fentanyl. These tariffs impact the remainder of our China-sourced products that are not subject to the Section 232 tariffs. We've assessed all of our products, and we've moved the small number of those that we know today will clearly benefit from long- term production outside of China. However, since the majority of our products are impacted by the IEEPA tariffs, and those are not yet finalized, outcomes from ongoing tariff negotiations could greatly drive a preference shift across multiple countries of origin. So we've worked closely with our suppliers, and we've mapped out transition plans for the balance of our product portfolio, positioning us to rapidly shift production as needed to countries outside of China such as Vietnam, Cambodia, Indonesia and Thailand, among others, within 6 to 12 months of making that decision. As a reminder, the higher tariff costs are capitalized as variances into inventory at the time of purchase, and these variances are amortized to the P&L based on inventory turns. As such, for fiscal 2026, we expect that higher tariff costs will begin to have a larger impact on our income statement in Q3 and into Q4. Our supply chain efforts are currently focused on sourcing products that preserve our strong margins while meeting our high-quality standards. We benefit from long-standing collaborative relationships with suppliers who have helped share in the additional tariff burden and supported our efforts to explore sourcing opportunities outside of China, an initiative that may help mitigate the effects of the IEEPA tariffs. As we assess those opportunities, our asset-light model, which includes ownership of our intellectual property and tooling, gives us the agility to make timely adjustments across our supply chain. That flexibility allows us to remain focused on sourcing high-quality products at the most competitive total cost, regardless of country of origin. In addition to our supply chain efforts, we've implemented price increases to help offset the higher tariff costs. Looking ahead, we will continue to monitor our product categories to ensure our pricing remains competitive. We believe our strong IP-protected products afford us a level of protection at the retail counter. Lastly, with regard to OpEx, we remain committed to disciplined cost management, focusing on what we can control while continuing to invest in R&D, sales and marketing to drive long-term growth. As a reminder, with our fifth anniversary, we will no longer qualify as an emerging growth company. As such, we expect to incur approximately $1 million in additional annual public company costs beginning in fiscal 2026. In a related note, I'm happy to share that based on a preliminary list of additions posted on June 6, we are slated to join the Russell 3000 Index and the small-cap Russell 2000 Index, effective when the U.S. stock market opens on June 30. We are honored to rejoin the Russell. Our inclusion enhances our visibility within the investment community and reflects our continued focus on creating lasting sustainable value for our shareholders. In closing, we are extremely pleased with the degree of strength and flexibility we've built into the business. As we navigate fiscal 2026, we believe we have the tools to remain agile, responsive and well positioned for long-term growth. And with that, operator, please open the call for questions from our analysts.