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Johnson Outdoors Inc. Class AJOUTCompetitor analysis, valuation and peers

United States · USD·Consumer Discretionary›Recreational Products
Momentum neutral 52
Mkt cap
$490M
US dollars, full cap
Free float
89%
of shares outstanding
$/day
$1.52M
20-day average traded
Fwd P/E
55.0×
forward earnings
ROIC−WACC
-4.0 pp
WACC 8.5%
Hurdle
+10 pp
Req g minus delivered
Next earnings
35 days
11 Dec 2026
Close · USD$47.28
1D-0.4%
1W+3.5%
1M+6.5%
3M-1.1%
6M-8.0%
YTD+11.4%
1Y+16.0%
ATR %3.3%
Beta0.65
52w lowhigh11.7% off high

What Johnson Outdoors does

Employees: 1,300

Johnson Outdoors at a glance

Size Johnson Outdoors (JOUT) is a United States Consumer Discretionary company (Recreational Products) with a market value of $490M, the 2713th largest of 3,117 United States companies the cockpit tracks. Shares closed at $47.28 on 6 Nov 2026.

Performance Over six months the shares fell 8.0%, against -24.4% for the median peer and -1.1% for the United States market (cap-weighted) — 7th highest of 21 in its peer set.

Growth Revenue grew 17.5% over the last twelve months (peer median +7.4%); the operating margin is 2.7% (peer median 2.9%).

Valuation It trades at 55.0× forward earnings against a peer median of 14.0× (most expensive of 13).

Price implies For today's price to make sense, revenue must grow about 10% a year for seven years (Req g). Recent delivered growth is 0%, so the hurdle is +10 pp: the price needs faster growth than the company has been delivering — of companies that just grew 25–50% a year, 93.8% slowed down over the next four years.

Capital Return on invested capital runs 4.0 points below its cost of capital (8.5% WACC).

Short interest Short interest is 4.7% of the free float (15 Oct 2026).

Next results Next results expected around 11 Dec 2026 (exchange calendar; dates can move).

Relative performance

809010011011 May 202611 Aug 20266 Nov 2026JOUT 105Peer median 76
Six months, rebased to 100: Johnson Outdoors against the median of its 20 peers (local-currency closes).

Johnson Outdoors financials

Reported figures in USD; fiscal year ends 2025-09-30. TTM = trailing twelve months.
TTMFY2025FY2024FY2023FY2022
Revenue$661M$592M$593M$664M$743M
Revenue growth—0%-11%-11%—
Gross profit$262M$204M$198M$241M$268M
EBITDA$37.9M$4.44M-$12.7M$28.0M$80.5M
Net income-$7.99M-$34.3M-$26.5M$19.5M$44.5M
Free cash flow$29.9M$40.2M$19.0M$19.0M-$93.8M
Capital expenditure$20.5M$16.0M$22.0M$22.7M$31.7M
Total debt$51.6M$48.7M$49.3M$52.3M$57.9M

Quarterly statements and history in the cockpit →

Johnson Outdoors competitor charts

The default views of Competitor Analysis ▸ Charts, drawn from the same data. Open them in the cockpit to change the axes, pin companies and read every value.

Performance: 6-month against 1-month return

-40%-20%0%+20%-20%0%MCFT1126605080BENFOI-B0028990025755478603398609030032930284536MBUU7944JAKKFNKO0013006052998033JOUT6-month return →1-month return →
Up and to the right = strong over both horizons. Johnson Outdoors is the large dot.

Fundamentals: revenue growth against valuation

-10%0%+10%+20%20×40×605080BENFOI-B002899547860904536MBUU7944JAKKFNKO605299JOUTRevenue growth (TTM) →Forward P/E →
Further right = faster growth; higher = more expensive. The dashed lines are the peer medians. Johnson Outdoors is the large dot.

Capital: growth delivered against growth the price implies

-20%0%+20%+40%-20%0%20%40%MCFT1126605080FOI-B002575609030284536MBUU7944JAKKJOUTGrowth delivered (Del g) →Growth the price implies (Req g, 7 yrs) →
Above the diagonal = the price needs more growth than the company has been delivering; below = the price already allows for a slowdown. Johnson Outdoors is the large dot.

Johnson Outdoors competitors and peer comparison

How Johnson Outdoors compares with its peers

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size. This is the same default set the interactive Competitor Analysis opens with.

Johnson Outdoors against its 20 peers (data as of 6 Nov 2026)
MeasureJOUTPeer medianRank in peer set
1-month return+6.5%-3.0%4th highest of 21
6-month return-8.0%-24.4%7th highest of 21
Distance from 52-week high-11.7%-41.7%4th highest of 21
Revenue growth (TTM)+17.5%+7.4%5th highest of 21
Operating margin2.7%2.9%10th lowest of 21
Forward P/E55.0×14.0×most expensive of 13
Growth the price implies (Req g, 7 yrs)10.1%9.2%7th least demanding of 13
Growth delivered (Del g)-0.1%+6.1%3rd lowest of 13
Hurdle (Req g minus delivered)+10.1 pp-1.5 pp3rd most demanding of 13
ROIC minus cost of capital-4.0 pp-3.8 pp10th highest of 19
EV / EBITDA9.7×7.5×6th most expensive of 15
Net debt / EBITDA-3.3×-1.4×5th least indebted of 16

Peer table

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size
CompanyMarketMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthOp. marginForward P/EReq gDelivered g
Johnson Outdoors JOUTUnited States$490M-8%+17%3%55.0×10.1%-0.1%
Mastercraft Boat MCFTUnited States$493M-26%+23%3%n/a28.3%-7.9%
Dream International 1126.HKHong Kong$474M-27%+10%11%n/a-20.1%+9.6%
Zhejiang Natural Outdoor Goods 605080.SSChina$472M-12%-2%14%17.8×7.6%+11.9%
Beneteau BEN.PAFrance$457M-32%+1%0%26.3×n/an/a
Fenix Outdoor International AG Series B FOI-B.STSweden$443M-25%+1%3%6.3×6.8%+5.4%
Impulse Qingdao Health Tech 002899.SZChina$428M-43%-1%6%36.4×n/an/a
Guangdong Qunxing Toys Joint-Stock 002575.SZChina$427M-29%+34%-9%n/a41.8%+38.9%
Soft-World International 5478.TWOTaiwan$426M-3%+6%20%12.3×n/an/a
Mubang High-Tech 603398.SSChina$416M-49%+94%-133%n/an/an/a
Butong 6090.HKHong Kong$416M-5%+16%7%13.9×29.3%+38.5%
Hailun Piano 300329.SZChina$407M-23%-11%-112%n/an/an/a
Alpen 3028.TJapan$590M+26%+6%3%n/a-3.0%+4.2%
Topkey 4536.TWTaiwan$401M-3%-10%16%9.1×-15.6%+4.9%
Malibu Boats MBUUUnited States$398M-33%+13%1%8.6×19.6%-0.3%
Roland 7944.TJapan$605M-11%+8%9%10.6×-8.3%+9.5%
JAKKS Pacific JAKKUnited States$388M+45%+9%4%14.2×10.8%+2.0%
Funko FNKOUnited States$377M+28%-4%3%25.7×13.0%+6.8%
Sportsoul 001300.SZChina$376M-43%-6%-14%n/an/an/a
Shuhua Sports 605299.SSChina$642M-60%+20%9%32.8×n/an/a
Thunder Tiger 8033.TWTaiwan$647M-14%+11%-5%n/an/an/a

Questions

Which companies are Johnson Outdoors's closest peers?
The cockpit's peer set: Mastercraft Boat (MCFT), Dream International (1126.HK), Zhejiang Natural Outdoor Goods (605080.SS), Beneteau (BEN.PA), Fenix Outdoor International AG Series B (FOI-B.ST), Impulse Qingdao Health Tech (002899.SZ), Guangdong Qunxing Toys Joint-Stock (002575.SZ), Soft-World International (5478.TWO).
Is Johnson Outdoors expensive compared with its peers?
On forward p/e it trades at 55.0× against a peer median of 14.0×, most expensive of 13 in its peer set. For today's price to make sense, revenue must grow about 10% a year for seven years (Req g). Recent delivered growth is 0%, so the hurdle is +10 pp: the price needs faster growth than the company has been delivering — of companies that just grew 25–50% a year, 93.8% slowed down over the next four years.
How has Johnson Outdoors stock performed?
Over six months to 6 Nov 2026 the shares returned -8.0% against -24.4% for the median peer; over one year +16.0%.

How these numbers are made. Returns are close-to-close in local currency. Revenue growth and margins are trailing twelve months. Req g is the revenue growth that today's enterprise value requires for seven years at the company's own cost of capital; Delivered g is what it actually grew; the gap is the hurdle (honest precision about ±8 points, so read the ranking more than the decimal). No fair values, price targets or analyst ratings are shown, by design. Method and validation.