Escalade, Incorporated

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Escalade, Incorporated’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $240.2 million, down 4.51% from fiscal 2024. In the quarter to June 2026, revenue grew 6.20%, EPS grew 423.1%, free cash flow fell 36.0% and total debt fell 32.4%, each against the same quarter a year earlier. Dividend growth for ten consecutive years.

18.49 0.21 −1.12%
Market cap
$257.4M
P/E
11.1×
Fwd P/E
16.6×
Dividend yield
3.29%
F-score
9/9
Altman Z
5.25
Beneish M
−2.86
Dividend safety
69/100

Escalade, Incorporated (ESCA) Piotroski F-score

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Escalade, Incorporated's Piotroski F-score for fiscal 2025 is 9 out of 9: 9 of nine tests of profitability, leverage and efficiency passed, up from 7 in fiscal 2024.

Piotroski F-score, annual

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Period Piotroski F-score Change (points)
FY2025 9 2.00
FY2024 7 3.00
FY2023 4 0.00
FY2022 4 0.00
FY2021 4 (2.00)
FY2020 6 1.00
FY2019 5 (1.00)
FY2018 6 1.00
FY2017 5 1.00
FY2016 4 —

How fiscal 2025’s score is made up

Test This year Year before Result Points
Positive return on assets 6.11% 5.42% Pass 1
Positive operating cash flow 31.01m 36.05m Pass 1
Rising return on assets 6.11% 5.42% Pass 1
Cash flow above net income 17.31m 23.06m Pass 1
Falling long-term leverage 0.05 0.08 Pass 1
Rising current ratio 4.28 3.88 Pass 1
No new shares issued 13,751,000 13,844,000 Pass 1
Rising gross margin 26.92% 24.73% Pass 1
Rising asset turnover 1.07 1.05 Pass 1
Piotroski F-score Strong — most fundamentals improved 9

How the Piotroski F-score works

One point for each of nine tests, this fiscal year against the one before: positive return on assets, positive operating cash flow, rising return on assets, cash flow above net income, falling long-term leverage, a rising current ratio, no new shares issued, a rising gross margin and rising asset turnover. The ratios are the ones on this site, so each can be checked.

Joseph Piotroski (2000) called 8–9 high and 0–1 low; reading it in three bands is the common convention:

7–9Strong — most fundamentals improved
4–6Mixed
0–3Weak — most fundamentals deteriorated

Where this differs from the paper: return on assets is on average rather than beginning-of-year assets, and weighted basic shares stand in for shares issued. The score is shown only when all nine tests can be worked out, which takes three fiscal years; banks and insurers, which report no current assets or gross profit, have none.

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What Piotroski F-score is

The Piotroski F-Score tells an investor how many signs of improving profitability, funding and efficiency a company shows against a year earlier.

One point for each of nine tests against a year earlier: positive return on assets, positive operating cash flow, rising return on assets, cash flow above net income, falling long-term leverage, rising current ratio, no new shares issued, rising gross margin, and rising asset turnover

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