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Good day, and welcome to the Under Armour Third Quarter 2025 Earnings Conference Call. All participants will be in listen-only mode. [Operator Instructions] After today’s presentation, there will be an opportunity to ask questions. [Operator Instructions] Please note this event is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference over to Lance Allega, Senior Vice President of Investor Relations, Treasury and Corporate Development. Please go ahead.

Good morning, and welcome to Under Armour’s third quarter fiscal 2025 earnings conference call. Today’s event is being recorded for replay. Joining us on today’s call are Under Armour President and CEO, Kevin Plank; and CFO, David Bergman. Our remarks today will include certain forward-looking statements that reflect Under Armour management’s current view of our business as of February 6, 2025. These statements may include projections for our business in the present and future quarters and fiscal years. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future business performance, and our actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied in the views provided. Statements made are subject to risks and other uncertainties detailed in this morning’s press release and documents filed regularly with the SEC, including our annual report on Form 10-K and our quarterly reports on Form 10-Q. Today’s discussion may also include non-GAAP references. Under Armour believes these measures give investors a helpful perspective on underlying business trends. When applicable, these measures are reconciled to the most comparable U.S. GAAP measures. Reconciliations along with other pertinent information can be found in this morning’s press release and at about.underarmour.com. With that, I will turn the call over to, Kevin.

Thank you, Lance, and everyone joining us on this morning’s call. Our fiscal third quarter results exceeded expectations, driven by strong gross margin performance with revenue also surpassing our forecast. With these results, I’m pleased we were able to raise our full-year outlook again, demonstrating that our strategies to reposition the Under Armour brand are gaining traction. Much of the credit goes to our actions of producing promotions and discounts in our eCommerce business, which has contributed nicely to improved gross margin this year. Key metric for how consumers value our brand and a core validation of the pricing power, we intend to increase and leverage over time, as we work to improve the quality of our revenue from mostly good level product to more better and best level, Under Armour that consumers will choose to buy. As discussed at our investor meeting in December, the idea of balance in our logo structure is fundamental to our ambition for the brand we are building, and how we expect to run the business efficiently going forward. This will take time, but our strategy is sound and beginning to take root as each day we get stronger than the one before. Also at our investor meeting, we provided a comprehensive overview of our product, brand and commercial strategies along with other key initiatives designed to enhance Under Armour’s ability to achieve better long-term financial results focusing on product, story, service and team. We are fully committed to these strategies including launching an improved product lineup in fall winter ‘25, establishing a distinctive underdog muse in our storytelling and implementing intentional disciplined marketplace management across our regions. Perhaps most importantly, we wanted you to meet our management team and experience their energy and dedication to this exceptional brand, clarifying where we are, where we’re headed and how our leadership talent will drive our objectives. As a brand rooted in sports that create solutions for athletes, our human connection and dedication to achieving challenging goals are in our DNA. Grounded in athletic performance, our sports house identity offers a significant advantage in our mission to reposition Under Armour. It is unique to only a handful of athletic brands which can outfit athletes on any field, court or pitch across virtually any athletic endeavor worldwide. However, sitting in a broader sports industry with multiple competitors both bigger and smaller, we are fortunate to be bigger than the new trending brands, yet more agile than the [bigs] (ph), an aspect we plan to use to our advantage. This position provides us with an exceptional broad-based platform to speak directly to and create amazing products for our athletes. Our product machine is working as the first place I focused on when re-assuming the CEO role last April due to the 18-month lead times we have in our industry to build products for the market, it was imperative to get our product trajectory in the right direction as it takes the longest. Beginning with supporting leadership for Yassine, as Chief Product Officer and the entire product organization from innovation through design, we’ve made significant progress in enhancing our athletic performance and new sportswear offerings, blending those elements of innovation, fabric and trim, thought leadership with aggressive, young and fearless design. Highlight of the third quarter was the launch of the first signature shoe for Curry Brand athlete De’Aaron Fox, the Fox 1. Designed to complement his speed and optimize his performance on the court, De’Aaron quickly showcased them becoming only the third player in NBA history to score at least 109 points in two consecutive games for the Fox 1 debut. The shoe features some of the best innovations the Curry brand is known for including our patented flow sole technology and is available exclusively through our DTC channels and at DICK’S Sporting Goods, a key retail partner we plan to win with through this next chapter. More on the footwear front, the spring summer ‘25 season, which kicks off with floor sets later this month introduces Echo Footwear, the latest version of our SlipSpeed platform. The Echo showcases new technology in an evolved design language from the original versions. After shooting it ahead of the upcoming NBA All-Star weekend, which will include a unique collaboration to be unveiled in limited pairs for launch, the initial buzz has started and we’re eager to release the SlipSpeed Echo more broadly in the coming months. Additionally, on the apparel side, new better and best products are coming this season including elevated offerings from our Unstoppable and Meridian collections, putting to test the underlying pricing power we intend to increasingly establish in the coming seasons. It is encouraging that these more premium level products have continued to perform well over the past several quarters. So, we’re building confidence that these offerings will help us achieve a better balance in our good-better-best product segmentation. Another solid proof point in our move toward a more meaningful sportswear presence and business is the success we saw with one of our premium FLEECE offerings, the $120 UA Icon Heavyweight Hoodie, which has seen terrific sell-through particularly traction with young athletes who we are actively reintroducing ourselves to. Our innovation capabilities consistently rank among the best in the industry. Recent examples include Women’s Health magazine naming the UA Infinity 2.0 High as the best high impact sports bra in December. And Men’s Health magazine selected the UA Project Rock BSR 4 shoes as the most versatile cross-training shoes for men. Not to mention the new suspension backpack we demonstrated at our Investor Meeting which will hit stores this fall. Built with our patent pending [augetic] (ph) strap and braking system, I got to tell you it makes you feel like you’re carrying half the weight. A great metaphor for the problems we hope to solve with every Under Armour product we build for our athletes, ‘to make you better’. From an operational perspective, we continue to refine our focus through a streamlined creation process, assortment and merchandising strategy to achieve a more intentional product presentation for athletes and especially our retail partners. Leading this effort are initiatives to reduce SKUs across all assortments by 25%. In addition to the components that make up our products like cutting footwear foams by about 50% to anchor around consistent underfoot cushioning across our Charged, HOVR and Flow midsole. And, narrowing our materials library to those with volumes or multiple end uses that bring the best articulation of our fabric superiority and highest margins. All efforts to allow our designers to enhance efficiency and effectiveness in doing their work, effectively doing more with less. As we’ve previously discussed, we are transitioning from an apparel, footwear and accessory-led operating model to consumer-focused category managed model that emphasizes singular accountability leadership in team sports, train, golf, basketball, run, sportswear, outdoor and other key sports that serve as authenticators in specific regions. This change will enable us to better understand and meet athletes’ needs by enhancing strategic alignment across our product marketing and commercial teams, driven by more direct financial accountability and clearer definitions of each category’s role in our overall go-to-market strategy. The brand operationally has relied on the process of the UA machine that had been built and running for us the past several years. But without enough clear individual accountability, I don’t believe we’ve optimized our performance. So, our new category led operating model addresses this head on. Beginning with our people, this will mostly be a shift in what many of the roles our teammates are already responsible for as we are primarily reassigning existing talent into the category model with their refined responsibility and as a result bringing absolute clarity to what is expected of them and their respective teams each and every day as well as a clear definition of success. This I believe is the most fundamental key to unlocking the winning culture we expect and are establishing at Under Armour. As we transition into our new operating model this month led by recently named brand President Eric Liedtke, we have a seasoned team ready to hit the ground running as we improve and perfect our processes over the coming seasons. Key to the benefit of what it will deliver for us is in Eric’s new role leading for the brand which now integrates product and story within the same go-to-market leadership and accountability. At Under Armour, our currency is product and our voice is the compelling story that we tell about those amazing products. With our team now in place and running the 18-month product go-to-market, I am now turning our emphasis to layering excellent story into this machine, meaning exactly how we will market this brand. During our recent investor meeting, Eric outlined our goal of improving all aspects of marketing and brand strategy to foster a stronger connection with young team sport athletes. Put simply, we will stop asking them to buy our product through performance marketing, which has led to the promotions that have plagued our recent history. Instead, we’ll focus on showing them why they should love our individual products and our brand. And as we get that right, they will then love to buy our great products. This is in flight. So, our mission to capture the hearts and minds of young team sport athletes. We are dedicated to refining our messaging to bring this narrative to life in ways only Under Armour can, as we remain fundamentally connected to the underdog mindset, the intense athlete who carries a chip on their shoulder, underrated athlete eager to prove their worth and demonstrate their extraordinary potential to the world. So, as we strive to forge deeper more meaningful connections with consumers, our UA Next global grassroots program focused on enhancing the next generation of athletes has become an essential platform for us. In November building on our fall soccer or football brand activation in EMEA, we held a Paris experience which featured Real Madrid defender Antonio Rüdiger and Sacha Boey, a promising defender from Bayern Munich. The event included offensive master class highlighting our commitment to nurturing young football talent. As a crucial global authenticator, our athlete roster continues to grow including the recent added Brazilian player Douglas Costa who plays for Sydney Football Club and Ferran Torres a promising young Spanish talent from Barcelona FC. In January, we wrapped up the UA Next All-America games in Orlando that were broadcast on ESPN. These are more than 130 of the nation’s top high school football and volleyball players. To garner social media mindshare, we had an impactful time with these alpha athletes introducing and getting reactions to products, as well as significantly improving our digital presence with better engagement and views compared to the previous year. The way we communicate with our athletes begins with those at the tip of the spear will inform us as we continue to improve how we show up where our young athletes are already watching. Here are a few examples of just how we’re doing that. In American football, tunnel walks are our catwalks and with that we had three great runway moments during the quarter. Starting with the Naval Academy showcasing our beautifully designed Jolly Rogers uniforms and the accompanying story video we made for the series as they beat Army in the 125th Army-Navy game, followed by victory in the Armed Forces Bowl against Oklahoma achieving 10 wins for just the sixth time in school history. We also renewed our partnership with the Naval Academy as the official outfitter of their 36 intercollegiate varsity teams in a multi-year agreement extending our relationship since 2014. Another longtime UA school Notre Dame had a remarkable journey to the College Football Playoff Championship game proudly wearing the fantastic ARMR 037 jerseys featuring our now iconic center neck logo or as we’re calling this the balanced UA logo position. Amid all the excitement of the CFPs we engage with athletes and fans through a range of electrifying social activations that generated considerable buzz including teaming up comedian and actor Shane Gillis in a spot called Shane’s Prayer for a Notre Dame victory in the National Championship Game which went viral on the Saturday morning before the game on Monday. This ability and I should say agility for our team to quickly act within seven days finding the right collaboration for a unique brand expression, a prayer for the underdogs and executing this creative and clever lane for UA to play from. Getting to this moment required a lot of ingredients that needed to go right like signing Notre Dame and even they’re making it to this game and is a type of energy and hype we expect to bring to the content we make with our $500 million marketing budget and what you should expect from UA moving forward. This example of thoughtful culturally relevant collaboration will be our bar for marketing excellence. Also at the professional level, several of our NFL athletes like Justin Jefferson,

Thanks, Kevin. Moving straight into our results, our third quarter of fiscal ‘25 surpassed the outlook we provided in November, making this as the third time we’ve exceeded expectations this year. The revenue decline of 6% to $1.4 billion was better than our outlook of down approximately 10%. By region, North America experienced an 8% decline mainly due to a decrease in our DTC business. This was affected by lower eCommerce sales due to our proactive efforts to limit promotional activities. In wholesale, we faced reduced sales to the off-price channel, counterbalanced by a slight increase in full-priced sales. Revenue in EMEA increased by 5% or 3% on a currency neutral basis with growth in our DTC and full-priced wholesale business, partially offset by a decline in third-party off-price sales. APAC revenue fell by 5% or 6% on a currency neutral basis. As discussed, the region’s highly competitive and promotional landscape contributed to the mounting pressure. In Latin America, revenue declined by 16% or 9% on a currency neutral basis, mainly due to lower distributor sales. From a channel perspective, wholesale revenue was down 1% and lower sales in the off-price channel were partially offset by growth in our distributor businesses and flat full-priced results during the quarter. Direct-to-consumer revenue declined by 9%, mainly due to a 20% decrease in eCommerce, which was primarily driven by reduced promotions and discounts as we expanded our premium online presence. Sales at our owned and operated retail stores fell by 1% this quarter. And licensing was down 18%, primarily due to the decision to bring our socks business in-house last March. By product type, apparel revenue was down 5%, the softness across most categories in the quarter, partially offset by strength in Outdoor and Golf. Footwear declined by 9% with most categories decreasing. And our accessories business was up 6% in the quarter with strength in Train and Run partially driven by bringing our socks business in-house. Our third quarter gross margin was up 240 basis points year-over-year to 47.5%. This increase was driven by 100 basis points of supply chain benefits, mainly driven by lower freight and product costs, 100 basis points of pricing benefits from lower discounting and promotions in our DTC business, reduced markdowns in the wholesale channel and slightly more favorable pricing in the off-price channel. 35 basis points gained from favorable foreign currency impacts, and about 10 basis points of benefits from a favorable product mix. Three main factors drove our gross margin beat relative to the outlook we gave back in November. The first and most significant is related to supply chain benefits led by additional product cost savings compared to our plans and lower freight costs, primarily freight to our customers. Second, we experienced some unplanned benefits from changes in foreign currency. Third, lower than planned sales to the off-price channel gave us a mix benefit. Next, SG&A expenses rose 6% to $638 million in the third quarter. After the complete exit from our previous headquarters campus and the related valuation review, we recorded a $28 million impairment to adjust our carrying value. This amount is not included in our fiscal 2025 restructuring plan. Excluding this $28 million impairment and around $4 million in net transformation expenses from our fiscal 2025 restructuring plan, adjusted SG&A expenses increased 5% to $606 million consistent with the outlook we provided in November. Higher marketing expenses mainly drove the increase as our brand investments are predominantly focused in the second half of our fiscal year along with higher incentive compensation and information technology expenses. These increases were partially offset by savings from ongoing cost management efforts, including the effects of earlier headcount reductions. Next, we recognized $14 million in restructuring charges during the third quarter. Along with the $4 million in transformation expenses recorded in SG&A, this brings the total to $18 million of restructuring charges and related expenses for the quarter. Year-to-date, we have recorded $57 million in charges and expenses under our fiscal 2025 restructuring plan, $40 million were cash-related, while $17 million were non-cash-related. We still expect total restructuring charges and related expenses to reach $140 million to $160 million with slightly more than half anticipated to occur in fiscal ‘25 and the remainder in fiscal ‘26. Regarding profitability, our operating income for the third quarter was $14 million. Excluding the impairment charge, transformation expenses and restructuring charges, our adjusted operating income reached $60 million. Taking this to the bottom line, our reported diluted earnings per share broke even, while our adjusted diluted earnings per share was $0.08 for the quarter. On our balance sheet, inventory was flat at $1.1 billion compared to last year and our expectation that the March 31 balance will be roughly in-line with the end of fiscal ‘24 remains unchanged. Our cash balance at the end of the third quarter was $727 million and we did not utilize our $1.1 billion revolving credit facility. Lastly, we repurchased $25 million of our Class C stock during the quarter, retiring 2.8 million shares. Turning next to our fiscal ‘25 outlook, where we are raising expectations for most line items. Given our slightly better topline performance than our plan, we now expect full-year revenue to decline at approximately 10% instead of the previously expected low-double-digit contraction. In addition, our outlook for North American revenue has also improved slightly as we now foresee a decline of 12% to 13% versus the previous expectation of down 14% to 16%. Our expectations for flat revenue in EMEA remain unchanged. However, due to tougher conditions in APAC, we now expect revenue in the region to decrease at a low-teen percentage rate compared to our prior expectation of a high-single-digit decline. Regarding gross margin, where we’ve seen the most significant outperformance this year, we have updated our outlook to now reflect an improvement of approximately 160 basis points, an increase from our previous improvement range of 125 to 150 basis points. The key factors contributing to this raise for the full-year include supply chain tailwinds such as lower freight and product costs and reduced promotional and discounting activities in our DTC business. For SG&A, excluding this year’s litigation reserve expense, litigation-related insurance recoveries, impairment charges and estimated transformational expenses associated with our restructuring plan, adjusted SG&A is expected to decrease at a low-single-digit rate. This reflects a modest increase over our previous estimate as we are reinvesting part of our revenue and gross margin overdrive into brand building initiatives and operational improvements. These updates increase our adjusted operating income outlook for the year by approximately $15 million at the midpoint, bringing our improved outlook to $185 million to $195 million. When factoring this into the bottom line, we expect adjusted diluted earnings per share to be in the range of $0.28 to $0.30 reflecting an increase of $0.03 at the midpoint compared to our previous outlook. Now, keep in mind that when we presented our outlook back in November, we mentioned that our fourth quarter would encounter the most headwinds of the year. Primary factors behind the pressure in the fourth quarter include our spring summer ‘25 order book, softness in our APAC business as we detailed earlier, a more challenging North American factory house comp due to high promotions in last year’s fourth quarter and additional foreign currency headwinds. Before concluding, I want to address the potential increase in U.S. tariffs on imported goods from China, Mexico and Canada proposed earlier this week. It’s important to note that Under Armour sources approximately 3% of its goods imported into the U.S. from China and even less from Mexico, and we have no manufacturing relationships in Canada. Given these facts, the current tariffs proposals are not expected to impact our business significantly. However, we will stay vigilant and if these parameters change or additional countries are included in this tariff program, we will promptly reassess accordingly. With that said, in closing, as we enter the final quarter of fiscal ‘25, transformative year for our business and our brand, we’re pleased to realize some signs of improvement in our P&Ls, including meaningful gross margin expansions. And while still not quite a year into this journey, with the strong alignment and commitment from our global team, increased prioritization and accountability in our evolving operating model and a focused approach to marketplace management, we see tremendous potential in the strategies we have in place to strengthen Under Armour’s brand positioning and ultimately to forge an improved growth trajectory in the long-term. Now, we’ll open the call for questions. Operator?

We will now begin the question-and-answer session. [Operator Instructions] Our first question comes from Simeon Siegel with BMO Capital Markets. Please go ahead.

Thanks. Good morning, everyone. Congrats on the ongoing progress.

Thanks, Simeon.

So Kevin, as you enter this new chapter of exciting marketing and product, could you just elaborate a little bit on how you’re going to approach balancing, telling the powerful story while still holding on to the intention to achieve more by doing less? And then, not sure if this one’s for you or for Dave. Great to see the D2C promotional discipline, I guess at this point, any way to help contextualize just frame for us what percent of the eCommerce is still on the discounts that you might like to pull back? Any thoughts on timeline order of magnitude of the remaining D2C reset that you’re aiming for? Thanks guys.

Thanks, Simeon. I think achieving more by doing less, it’s sort of become a broader metric at the company, where this growth by constraint model is something where we’ve found opportunities, we’ve mentioned in our materials library, as I just mentioned on the call about our footwear foams, but it’s really everything. It’s a greater reliance as well as empowering the team, which I think speaks to the new operating model that we’re putting in place of creating greater individual accountability. And what that means is we’re looking for the hands that we can high five so we have the ability to be agile and react to, like what I think the way that we reacted in the National Championship with one of our games, with Notre Dame. So, I feel like we’ve done a good job being able to utilize as the resources that we have, to figure out how we can do better. So, this idea of selling a whole lot more of a whole lot less product, means just being a lot more intentional as a brand. I feel like we’ve had those points where the merchandising strategy we’ve taken has allowed us to proliferate maybe more than we should. But, I believe that bringing great items of products that will blow consumers’ minds like the new SlipSpeed Echo will be launching at All-Star weekend in a couple of weeks and some of the other innovations that you’ve seen from us. So, I believe that, it’s a mindset as much as anything else that the team is really embracing and leading into this new operating model, moving into this new building, it feels like the ability for us to start with a really clean canvas of the way that we’re approaching the business going forward.

And Simeon, this is Dave. On the eCommerce discounting, I would say that, we took some big steps forward with North America in fiscal ‘25 and we’re really excited about the progress there. I would say that, that play isn’t completely finished. We don’t really disclose the percentage change in mix, but we still have a little further to go. So, we still have more work to do, but we made a really good step forward there. EMEA, we’ve already in a pretty good spot there, but we’re even leaning in a little bit further there. And then coming off our trip to APAC, there’s some work we want to do there as well, kind of on the same front. So big strides forward, but we still have a little bit more work to do on that front and we’re going to keep chipping away at it.

Great. Thanks guys. Best of luck for the rest of the year.

Thanks, Simeon.

The next question is from Jay Sole with UBS. Please go ahead.

Great. Thanks so much. Two questions for me. First, Kevin, you mentioned the brand will inflect before the business does. Are you beginning to see results from your brand strengthening strategies? If not, when do you anticipate this change will start? And then secondly, what are you seeing in APAC? What’s changed? How much is due to macro factors and how much is specific to Under Armour? Thank you.

Yes. Thanks, Jay. I think as I mentioned at the Investor Meeting that we had, the first proof point to the brand inflecting before the business does is the amount that our phone is ringing. It’s number one, the team that we’re able to attract, that you see with the talent that we’re being able to bring on board, and also the talent that is choosing and saying I see the future and I believe in what we’re doing. But, there’s this energy that is building within our walls right now and there’s a sense of what’s happening in Baltimore and that’s just of course our own retail partners and they’ve been with us for a long time, but frankly some of the new boutiques that are calling us and some of the specialized product that we’re now having the ability to build on. I referenced this term pricing power a few times because I think it’s one of the things that we’re really ambitious of building toward. And, it basically means the consumer stops looking and buying us based off strictly price. There are those commodity like items that maybe become more mainstream for people that it just needs to have that Under Armour edge into it that there is something special, there’s something different, there’s a superpower inside that makes it UA. And so, we want to be able to drive that. The consumer is not looking and it’ll help us on our margin side as we target continuing to grow. As we said in this period of time, gross margin is a great indicator for us and we’re proud of some of the work we’ve been able to do there. But, there’s a lot more for us to do and a lot more opportunity for us in that respect. Regarding APAC, I think we’ve we had a really solid trip over there with Dave and myself. Being on the ground in a day or two days, a couple days in Tokyo, a couple days in Korea, several days in Shanghai, the one thing about this business as we look at right now, it’s not that large of a business, meaning it’s only about $800 million what we’re doing. And frankly, we’ve been able to run this play before of what we’ve, I wouldn’t say completed, but we’re toward the later stages of it in EMEA and frankly what we’ve been implementing here particularly through some of the eCommerce deliverables that we’ve had here in North America that have been really one of the best indicators that’s driving gross margin for us this time. But, there’s macro issues or things that lead to traffic and all other things, but there’s people that are winning in this market and we should be winning in that market as well. Maybe I can just lay out the infrastructure, the offices, the people that we have in place like it’s all there. The pipes are laid. We just have to put great product and great story through those pipes. We need to make sure we get really firm with our direction. And I think again, driving that pricing power there is something that will really help us. So, leadership horsepower is one thing, we’re to make sure we’re putting the right resources around that time, people and money, but it’s all within the budgets that we have now and just running this play that we’ve been fortunate to have run before and seen some success. And so, that’s not a guarantee, but we feel pretty good about it. But, APAC has our full attention at this moment.

Sounds great. Thank you so much.

Thank you, Jay.

The next question is from Bob Drbul with Guggenheim. Please go ahead.

Hi, good morning. Kevin, just on North America, in your view, how is the North America reset working? And do you expect North America to grow in FY ‘26?

Thank you, Bob. We’re in a better position now than we’ve been in years. As the turn has begun to start for us with reality like reducing promotions as you’ve seen us do in the channels that we can control. But, there’s plenty of opportunity for us to be able to get after. We’re not going to unlock the bottom line opportunity really with this company until we begin to grow. And so, that’s where we’re putting ourselves and getting ourselves aligned around that. And, we’re doing the work to make the turn, but it’s going to take time. The brand new product engine that will begin to pay off as we’ve circled even when I started last April in fall ’25, as we’ve said, it’s perfect, but it will be a continuous work-in-process and we’ll get better-and-better each season. And, as we lay in the category management-led approach, that’s something that will help us. And, I just want to be clear is that, I know there’s been dialogue about what we should be doing with the brand and being smaller and to being more profitable is that double-digit operating margins are on our mind and that’s probably the definition of success that we would circle and say, that’s when we’re beginning to win. But, I believe that needs to happen from a growth position and putting ourselves in that position. So, taking some of this pain right now of reducing revenues and some of that topline that we’ve taken down, I think it will prove prudent to us and really pay off in the long run, because the test that we’ve had and again just controlling that eCommerce channel has been really helpful for us. And so, as this turn begins to happen, I want to start with our team believes, we believe, and we’ll have much more detail on that on the May call as we start thinking about driving one day, one quarter, one year at a time.

Great. And Kevin, you talked about the sports marketing, some of your successes, Notre Dame Football, South Carolina, women’s basketball. You have Juan Soto and now that he’s with the real team, do you have any plans to focus on him a bit more in the coming months and quarter?

Oh, my God. I love these softballs. Thank you. I think when you take the wands, that’s where we’re just looking at this like, it’s our own wine cellar of these, beautiful assets that we have down there. And I feel like we haven’t done a good job telling those stories since that’s why being more intentional. And, I touched on the Notre Dame thing in my notes in earlier question, but I’ve got the way that we’ve looked at marketing, because we have a lineup in assets, on the sports marketing side that are really unmatched. And if, whether it’s attracting high school football, it’s IMG Academy, whether it’s just collegiate, just Notre Dame, those two schools alone could authenticate us in both collegiate and high school. But, I feel like as a brand we’ve been guilty of having a $500 million budget that sure doesn’t feel like we’re spending that much money. So, we’re going to change that perspective, and it’s already started. And, I think that what we did with Notre Dame, with that collaboration involving so many aspects including the Catholic church, we had number one, the right asset in Notre Dame. We had the right sports moment in college football’s National Championship if they’re even getting to that game. The culturally relevant talent by bringing in Shane Gillis and frankly pulling this off in seven days of knowing that they were going to be there, and really kudos to our team with having the agility to create such a clever activation force. It says the only money that we effectively spent in this thing was the production time, is something we posted on YouTube a couple days before the game and allowed the Internet buzz to take over and it went viral for us. So, today’s marketing is about culturally relevant content, which is where we’re focused. And then, making sure that there’s a bar and a level to the content that we’re creating and articulating and talking about the Juan Soto’s, the Bryce Harper’s, the Bobby Wood Junior’s that we have in just our baseball rosters who I’d say that the

Great. Thank you.

I didn’t even mention Curry with that, so. Thank you, Bob.

The next question is from Sam Poser with Williams Trading. Please go ahead.

Good morning. Thank you for taking my questions. I have a couple. You mentioned that the, in the 4Q guide that the part of the headwind was the order book. Can you just go into a little more detail there? And then, maybe you can discuss what you’re seeing? You also talked about the phone ringing a little more. Can you talk a little bit about that? And then I’ve got something else as well.

Yes, Sam, this is Dave. Relative to Q4 and kind of what we’re talking about there is, we had mentioned previously, on the last call or two around a little bit softer order book as we thought about finishing out the year. And that’s, again what we’re still seeing. I think some of the newer pressure for Q4 is foreign currency is, what we see is going to be a little bit tougher on us in Q4 than we originally expected. And then, also coming off our trip to APAC, there are some building pressures there that we need to address, and that’s going to pressure Q4 a little bit more. So, we’re excited about the progress we’re making in North America and being able to improve that outlook a little bit. EMEA is holding strong and in a great spot from a brand perspective. APAC needs a little bit more of our attention to Kevin’s point, and part of that is kind of factored into that Q4 outlook.

Thanks.

And let me Sam, you want to pile on there?

Pile away.

You got it. So, Yassine just celebrated his one year anniversary at the brand. Barbados is not much farther in front of that. [Johann] (ph) less than a year. But I’ve got to tell you, we’ve been out with the fall ‘25, just showing what we have out there, and there’s a general sense of excitement. The first season, and I just want to emphasize, it’s going to be the first season of many that will continue to get better-and-better. And as we’d be able to roll in the new category management, which is rolling out this month and into March, we don’t think it’s a really sort of, high risk operational push for the company. We think that this is people doing jobs that they’ve done before. We’re going to build off of fall winter ’25 into ‘26 and beyond and start getting some momentum. But, we’ve been getting some of the calls from the boutique players and, no, we’re not going to hand out names there just yet, but there’s a lot of general excitement about what we’re doing of Under Armour truly getting it. There’s a clear difference in the design language style and more and it takes a little time to get back shelf space, but I think people are now looking at us in that light is that we’re heading in the right direction for that to be the case. And, we want to be thoughtful about where we’re selling. As I said, we’re going to be opening accounts in ‘25, but primarily boutique accounts. And, the one thing else I’d emphasize with this is, yes, we’ve got some great new sportswear and collaborations that you’ll hear about and see from us, but also our inline products, especially our largest volume products. I think it’s one of the most important messages of what we’ve done with things like our cert which is our highest volume or one of our highest volume shoes that we have and we’ve taken our best designers and put them on some of our lower pricing products. And so, we can get that consumer because just because it’s not $150 shoe doesn’t mean it doesn’t deserve to look great. And so, we’re really excited about some of the updates that will come across there. But more to come and excited to show you as that the fall order book start to take shape.

Thanks. And then, I mean, two other things. One, you sound like compared to 2,000 before you took your leave of in your last stint, you sound a lot more you sound just as energized, but you sound a lot more patient now than you did then. And that’s going to take time. You just didn’t seem to have that kind of patience in the past. And then secondly, one of your large more moderate accounts may appear to be teetering a bit. In the less is more category, could that end up being a good thing for you over time?

Yes, I think well, thank you first on the, we’re trying to hopefully we can apply a little bit of wisdom to this chapter because we do have the benefits of we’ll celebrate 30 years in this industry in the coming months and we’ve just been doing this a long time. So, we hope to apply all those lessons learned and battle scars and everything else for the better of this company, but we’ve got a good shot. As I said, I believe that we want to show up where the consumer wants us. There’s an opportunity in the, the elasticity I believe that we have in this industry is great, and it doesn’t mean that you, but you have to be in balance. And so that’s why, as we’ve said, we’re not looking to compromise the good-better-best level of products or distribution of what we’re doing. We think it’s important to maintain presence in all three. We just haven’t maintained anywhere near enough presence in the better or best categories. And so, we’ll be looking for accounts that serve that mission. We’ll be delivering products that serve that mission. We’ll be telling stories that serve that mission on our terrific athletes. And so, it needs to be comprehensive and cohesive, and we feel like we’ve got a pretty good plan. So, I just wish everything could go faster. It’s the hardest thing about this industry is that 18 months to build products or make a shoe or a shirt and it should just happen faster. So, we’re working on our agility there as well. We talked about our faster speed to market programs we have, but just going to require a little bit of patience. So, we’re in the fight.

Well, thank you. And keep taking deep breaths, Kevin. Thank you.

I do that thing with a yoga instructor puts the fingers on the back of your neck and tells you to relax. So, we’re working on it. We’re working on it.

Thank you.

Thanks, Sam.

The next question is from Jim Duffy with Stifel. Please go ahead.

Thank you. Hi, Kevin. Hi, Dave. Hope you guys are doing well.

Yes, Jim.

Dave, I want to start on inventory clearance levels versus your expectations. So, we interpret the lift of gross margin guidance as an indication you’re better positioned here than you might have anticipated coming into the fourth quarter?

Yes. I would say that, our third-party off-price is obviously a channel that we use to clear out order inventory. We’ve always done that. We’ve really done a great job of managing that down into that kind of 3%, 4% range of revenue over the last few years. We’re probably running on the lower-end of that right now. So, we are fairly clean with our inventory, which we’re excited about. Q3, we literally just didn’t have the ability to get some of that out the door. Some of that will go out in Q4. So, it’s a little bit of a timing. But in general, we’re continuing to really watch that and manage that well in the combined efforts of our outlet stores, and also the off-price channel. And then, going forward, we’re putting a lot of investment into improving our end-to-end planning, which should get our inventory buying even tighter. So, hoping that it continues to improve as we step forward.

Okay, thanks. And then Kevin, all eyes in the investment community are on sight lines for revenue inflection and it sounds like you’re not really prepared to talk about the order book into next year. I’m curious, what can you say about timing of marketing spend across fiscal ‘26? Should we expect it to be linear with the prior year? Or do you see the marketing spend more back half weighted as some of the newness begins to flow in? And do you expect to emphasize the marketing coincidental with that newness flowing into the marketplace?

Yes. I think, Jim, we’re going to be opportunistic. The best thing about, like what happened the Notre Dame example, I keep pointing to that metaphor because I think it’s just a great example of the amount of time it takes to we’ve been in that partnership 11 years of getting them in this game, but then being have the ability to be agile when it comes. So, we’re going to lay down. We’ve got a big go-to-market. We’re just going to make sure that the go-to-market is improved, and it’s doing a better job articulating, like, what makes our product different, what makes us special. I think that’s something about UA that I don’t believe that we’ve got enough. I think people sort of see us or lump us with a different group of people, which is why we tried articulating the sports house messages, which is why we talk about the podium brands and it’s, resigning our Naval Academy that has 36 intercollegiate sports, there’s just not a lot of brands that could do that. And, I think what makes us really different is this from a product standpoint is that we have the best thought leaders of fabric innovation and future view. Like, we’ve just been doing it a really long time and I think that we’re head-and-shoulders above others. The understanding of athletes’ problems, how we apply them, the expertise at the high school, collegiate, professional level and then the ability to authenticate that by testing our products out on the best athletes in the world from the Curry’s and Spieth’s at the IMGs, Notre Dame, South Carolina women’s basketball, etcetera. We’ve just got this great variety including our European football players that we have. Like, there’s just, something that makes this brand different. The way that we’ll spend money though, we’ll have our go-to-market. We’ll have our plans. We’re going to make sure that agility, and how we can actually touch, I think, the vein of viral and social media, and non-linear media, in all ways, I think will be a part of the plan, but then the ability for us to react when we get a chance.

And Jim, this is Dave. I just add in that, Eric not being here too long, he’s obviously digging in deep and looking to reprioritize our marketing in a different way. But also, we’ve hired incredible new talent in addition to Eric. We’ve got a new Head of Marketing in APAC now. We also have a new Lead of Marketing here in America. So, Eric working with them and the rest of our marketing team, there’s still work to be done on exactly how we want to run some of these new plays. And so, we’ll get into more of that detail and also more of the kind of timing aspects of it when we get into our May call, but we’re excited about what that team is working on.

And youthful, let me just leave that last name. It’s just youthful, I think, is really important. And being an expert, being the father of a 21 year old son and 18 year old daughter, they don’t wear Under Armour because dad works there. And so, we get this great line of sight and we use every bit of insights and the smarts, but I’m also bringing some of that youthful talent here. So, Dave mentioned our new Head of SVP of Brand Marketing here in the Americas working with Kara Trent. So, we’ve got talent that’s close to the market that knows how this kid is working and shopping and you’re going to see us be a lot more on point in the future.

Thank you, guys.

Thanks, Jimmy.

Thank you, Kelly.

Yes. Thank you, Laurent. I believe on the product side, we’ve really taken some significant strides. You’ve seen and you’re on showcased some terrific product at the Investor Meeting. So, for those that have a chance to, see it, I think that’s something which is tremendously exciting for us. I’m getting some feedback.

We’ll persevere here, Laurent, the first thing to launch for us, that we pulled forward is this, is our SlipSpeed Echo. We’ll be debuting this at All-Star weekend. It’s got a collaboration tied about around it. It’s Steph Curry hosting All-Star weekend in San Francisco. So, it’ll be a terrific event for us. And again, it’s a platform that we believe is something we can build into and around. I mentioned and with that, we’ve got some the Curry 12 continues to perform for us, but looking at Steph’s business differently, we had a chance to spend some time with Stephen in San Francisco and just talking about this really is an underserved business, meaning that we can just do a lot more with it, especially in Asia and then we did it right on our way out to Asia. We stopped there and had the ability just to think about it and see it through that lens. But, he is a cultural icon that has transcended being just an athlete. That’s something I don’t believe that we have leveraged as hard as we can. So there’s a lot of opportunity within the Curry brand. And then just the Under Armour brand itself is that you took a look at some of the product that you’re seeing and team have coming, and it’s incredibly exciting. So, beginning with Echo, but those will hit this fall. I think our retailers, we’ve been excited about the receptions from JDs and from DSG and some of our traditional retail and they want us to bring the market has changed and the world is not looking to replace $150 or $160 shoes with $110 or $20 shoes. So that pushes us as well in which what really leads into our pricing power. So, I believe that price to value ratio that relationship is something that we think is continues to get stronger-and-stronger for the brand to give the consumer the reason to buy and again to be young with that which is why I spoke about things like that heavyweight iconic hoodie that we’ve been selling at $120 and just watching for the reaction of the demographic that comes from it. So, more to come and we’re excited to show you that new product shortly.

And Laurent, I know you had the question on our Kohl’s business as well. And again, we enjoy working with Kohl’s. It’s a lot of great touch points for female consumers and also from a youth consumer perspective. So, we’re continuing to work well with that business. As a percentage of revenues, we don’t really disclose individual accounts, but what I can tell you is none of our accounts get anywhere close to 10% of our revenue mix. So in general, we’re not anywhere close to that in any of our account sizes, just to give you a little bit of a feel.

Thanks, Laurent.