Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer · Academy Sports & Outdoors, Inc. (ASO)

Carl Ford

A named executive officer of Academy Sports & Outdoors in every fiscal year CompBrief holds from FY2023 to FY2025. Every figure below is printed as the company filed it and cited to the filing it came from.

Total disclosed compensation, FY2025

$2,067,734

FY2024: $2,195,100

Compensation figures as of the proxy filed April 21, 2026 (DEF 14A).

Carl Ford compensation by year

Academy Sports & Outdoors Summary Compensation Table · all 3 fiscal years held
In US dollars, as Academy Sports & Outdoors reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2023FY2024FY2025
Salary$447,014$521,635$546,635
Bonus—$0$0
Stock awards$999,875$1,249,882$1,000,000
Option awards$249,984$0$0
Non-equity incentive$45,417$402,681$499,899
Pension and deferred compensation—$0$0
All other$21,413$20,902$21,200
Total$1,763,703$2,195,100$2,067,734

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: Academy Sports & Outdoors, Inc. DEF 14A filed April 21, 2026, accession 0001817358-26-000063, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

$1.8M
$2.2M
$2.1M
FY23
FY24
FY25
SalaryNon-equity incentiveStock awardsOption awardsAll other

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
RSU9,994$549,770—
RSU6,363$350,029—
RSU4,772$262,508—
RSU1,621$89,171—
RSU1,289$70,908—
RSU135$7,426—
Option3,280—$51.40
Option2,544—$39.17

Per the Outstanding Equity Awards at Fiscal Year-End table in Academy Sports & Outdoors, Inc.'s FY2025 proxy; value at the fiscal year-end close, as the company printed it.

Academy Sports & Outdoors’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Steve LawrenceChief Executive Officer$9,560,129
Sam JohnsonPresident$4,814,218
Carl Ford · this pageExecutive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer$2,067,734
Matt McCabeExecutive Vice President and Chief Merchandising Officer$2,067,730

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