American Outdoor Brands Fires Up FY27: Sales Jump 25%, Margins Surge, and EBITDA Swings Positive
American Outdoor Brands (NASDAQ:AOUT) has delivered the kind of quarterly reset growth investors like to see: stronger sales, sharply better margins, a swing to positive adjusted earnings and a higher full-year EBITDA outlook. For the first quarter of fiscal 2027, net sales climbed 25.4% to $37.3 million, while gross margin expanded 630 basis points to 53.0%. Even after accounting for roughly $6 million of retailer orders that had been pulled forward into the prior fiscal year's fourth quarter, underlying sales still increased approximately 4.3%.