Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer, and Assistant Secretary · SMITH & WESSON BRANDS, INC. (SWBI)

Deana McPherson

A named executive officer of SMITH & WESSON BRANDS in every fiscal year CompBrief holds from FY2020 to FY2026. Every figure below is printed as the company filed it and cited to the filing it came from.

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Total disclosed compensation, FY2026

$1,756,047

FY2025: $1,527,295

2nd of 5 named executive officers at Smith & Wesson Brands by FY2026 total.

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Compensation figures as of the proxy filed August 6, 2026 (DEF 14A).

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Deana McPherson compensation by year

SMITH & WESSON BRANDS Summary Compensation Table · all 7 fiscal years held
In US dollars, as SMITH & WESSON BRANDS reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026
Salary$307,965$379,038$400,000$412,000$424,000$475,000$475,000
Bonus$0$25,000$0$0$125,000$0$0
Stock awards$265,913$173,500$422,095$463,202$641,600$813,567$781,487
Option awards$0$0$0$0$0$0$0
Non-equity incentive$182,650$474,500$259,558$0$224,594$0$434,017
Pension and deferred compensation$0$0$0$0$0$0$0
All other$30,489$66,976$65,880$60,501$140,725$238,728$65,543
Total$787,018$1,119,014$1,147,533$935,703$1,555,919$1,527,295$1,756,047

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: SMITH & WESSON BRANDS, INC. DEF 14A filed August 6, 2026, accession 0001193125-26-338441, and prior-year filings.

How this page was built: the SMITH & WESSON BRANDS, INC. filed document, accession 0001193125-26-338441. Every figure is read from that document and cited to the page and table it appears in. Filed August 6, 2026.

$787K
$1.1M
$1.1M
$936K
$1.6M
$1.5M
$1.8M
FY20
FY21
FY22
FY23
FY24
FY25
FY26
SalaryBonusNon-equity incentiveStock awardsAll other

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2026 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
PSU98,773$1,534,939—
PSU63,766$990,924—
PSU55,088$856,068—
RSU44,898$697,715—
RSU18,780$291,841—
RSU10,628$165,159—
RSU3,223$50,085—

Per the Outstanding Equity Awards at Fiscal Year-End table in SMITH & WESSON BRANDS, INC.'s FY2026 proxy; value at the fiscal year-end close, as the company printed it.

SMITH & WESSON BRANDS’s named executive officers, FY2026

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2026 total
Mark SmithPresident and Chief Executive Officer$4,671,940
Deana McPherson · this pageExecutive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer, and Assistant Secretary$1,756,047
Kevin MaxwellSenior Vice President, General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer, and Secretary$1,629,410
Kyle TengwallVice President, Marketing and Strategy$1,002,614
Susan CuperoVice President, Sales$421,310

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