Academy Sports and Outdoors Q4 Earnings Call Highlights

In response to a question, management estimated the storm-related closures were roughly a 100-basis-point headwind to fourth-quarter comparable sales. Lawrence added that if those days were excluded, the business would have been running a positive comp in the mid-single-digit range.Lawrence said Thanksgiving and Cyber Week were strong, followed by softer spending in mid-December and a surge in the week leading into Christmas that continued into the final week of the month. He said January was softer than an ...