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Lululemon 4Q25 Immediate Call Postmortem

Is Lululemon’s BOD trying to send a message to Chip Wilson that a different “Chip” is the better answer? Almost certainly not the same quality level of at least one of Chip Wilson’s candidates in Marc Maurer.

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Adidas 4Q25 Immediate Call Postmortem

“In a complicated world with many negative things there are also great sport events” – CEO Bjorn Gulden. Have to say, really like Bjorn a lot.

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On Holding 4Q25 Immediate Call Postmortem

David tells an amazing story about how athletic brands are going to crush life going forward. The “movement class” is the future and they have a desire for vitality.

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Arhaus 4Q25 Immediate Call Postmortem

High level it seems the story is Arhaus doesn’t want to be like all the other shitty furniture retailers and instead wants to break out of the group’s reputation like Williams Sonoma did.

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Amer Sports 4Q25 Immediate Call Postmortem

Women's and footwear up roughly 40% or more. They had strong double-digit growth in Veilance – I certainly hope so given Arc’teryx store count is up approximately 30%.

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Deckers 3Q26 Immediate Call Postmortem

Global Hoka and Ugg performance exceeded expectations and was “exceptional” with balanced growth across DTC and wholesale. Americas accelerated.

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Nike 2Q26 Immediate Call Postmortem

Every region (and Converse) except for North America missed consensus revenue expectations with China the most notable shortfall.

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Lululemon 3Q25 Immediate Call Postmortem

Calvin stepping down is what everyone wanted well now you have it. As much as people love hating on him, he did oversee a massive period of growth (tripled revenue) into an approximate tie with Nike for world largest athletic apparel brand.

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On Holding 3Q25 Immediate Call Postmortem

First the bad. Not only did they miss the Americas revenue consensus estimate, but they also barely had double digit growth to begin with and everybody remembers what happened to Deckers (DECK) after domestic revenue growth cracked that level.

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Under Armour 2Q26 Immediate Call Postmortem

Kevin is talking more about innovation this quarter than we have heard in quite a long time. Of course, he had to bring up the backpack again but this time around he added a lot of other products and even started talking about the NEOLAST technology they have had a partnership with for past year (lead times).

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Tractor Supply: 3Q25 Immediate Call Postmortem

Going to call this quarter a lesson in reality. Even if management really thought it was possible to do a 4% comp this year, they never should have had that scenario in guidance given the aggressive acceleration required in 2H25 (7%+).

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Deckers 2Q26 Immediate Call Postmortem

As much as people want to penalize the company on domestic sales being down, the trend got sequentially better (just like management said would happen) and international continues to grow at an exceptionally impressive rate despite having the best result in years last quarter.

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Lululemon 2Q25 Immediate Call Postmortem

Down 4% Americas comp despite massive discounting in July is disappointing but we kinda already knew the entire athletic apparel industry is facing issues (that includes signs at FinX favorites Alo and Vuori BTW).

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Academy Sports 2Q25 Immediate Call Postmortem

Is this really the second quarter in a row where they miss earnings but increase the guidance range? Even that is kind of a mess as they lowered adjusted net income on the high end while raising adjusted EPS (likely due to share repurchases but still a lot of noise here).

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