Growth
Academy Sports + Outdoors against its category
The biggest tracked US sporting goods store chains by card spend, with year-over-year growth of category share. Share means a chain's slice of tracked category spend. It can decline while the chain's own sales grow. The chart tracks Academy Sports + Outdoors's share of the category quarter by quarter, indexed to 2024 Q4 = 100.
| # | Chain | YoY share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | DICK'S Sporting Goods | -1.8% |
| 2 | Academy Sports + Outdoors | +2.9% |
| 3 | Bass Pro Shops | +6.8% |
| 4 | Scheels | +10.3% |
| 5 | Sportsman's Warehouse | -4.0% |
| 6 | Dunham's Sports | +2.8% |
| 7 | Cabela's | -8.9% |
| 8 | PGA TOUR Superstore | -1.2% |
| 9 | Golf Galaxy | -10.0% |
| 10 | Play It Again Sports | +1.6% |
Share of tracked category spend, indexed
Store footprint
Store map
332 tracked Academy Sports + Outdoors locations across 21 US states. Texas, Florida, and Georgia hold 51% of them.
Tracked stores by state
- Texas 122
- Florida 25
- Georgia 23
- Louisiana 19
- North Carolina 19
- Alabama 18
- Tennessee 14
- Oklahoma 13
- Missouri 12
- Arkansas 10
- South Carolina 10
- Indiana 9
- Mississippi 9
- Kansas 6
- Kentucky 6
- Virginia 4
- Illinois 3
- Ohio 3
- Pennsylvania 3
- West Virginia 3
- Maryland 1
Customer overlap
Who shops at Academy Sports + Outdoors
Tracked chains Academy Sports + Outdoors customers also buy from more than a similarly active shopper would, indexed to the strongest overlap (100). From real card transactions.
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