Q4 2021 Sportsmans Warehouse Holdings Inc Earnings Call
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Greetings and welcome to Sportsman's warehouse fourth quarter and full year 2021 earnings call. At this time all participants are in a listen only mode. A question and answer session will follow the formal presentation, if anyone should require operator assistance.
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Note. This conference is being recorded I will now turn the conference over to Brian Lee Zimmer, Vice President of Investor Relations and corporate development.
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Thank you operator with me on the call today is Jon Barker, Chief Executive Officer, and Jeff White, Chief Financial Officer of Sportsman's warehouse.
First by way of introduction I'm Riley Timur and I'm, the new Vice President of IR and corporate development. It's.
It's a pleasure to be on this call today, and I look forward to developing relationships with each of our analysts and our current and prospective shareholders going forward I will be your primary point of contact for all investor related inquiries.
Now remind everyone of the company's safe Harbor language the.
The statements we make today will contain forward looking statements within the meaning of the private Securities Litigation Reform Act of $19 95, which include statements regarding our expectations about future results of operations.
And for our products and growth of our industry.
Actual future results may differ materially from those suggested in such statements due to a number of risks and uncertainties, including those described under the caption risk factors in the company's most recent Form 10-K , and the company's other filings made with the SEC.
We will also disclose non-GAAP financial measures during today's call definitions of such non-GAAP financial measures as well as reconciliations to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measures are provided as supplemental financial information in our press release included as exhibit 99, one to the form.
8-K, we furnished to the SEC today, which is also available on the Investor Relations section of our website at Sportsman's Dot com.
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I would also like to note that today's materials, including the earnings conference call Powerpoint presentation, which is available at sportsman dot com in the Investor Relations section of the website you can utilize this deck as a reference with today's prepared remarks, I will now turn the call over to Jon Barker, Our Chief Executive Officer.
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Thank you and it's great to have you on the team Riley good afternoon to everyone on the call and thank you for taking the time to join US today, it's good to be back on our normal operating and communication routine with our analysts and investors.
My remarks today I will provide a brief update since our last earnings call in December of 2020.
In addition, we will provide an overview of our fourth quarter and full year 2021 performance highlighted by our beat to consensus on both top and bottom line results.
Then I will review a few key elements of the growth strategy.
Our omnichannel business model.
Following my comments, Jeff will provide additional details on our fourth quarter and full year results as well as discuss our outlook for the first quarter of 2022.
Finally, we will open up the call for questions.
As a backdrop to our business growth when we entered the pandemic in early 2020, we operated 102 stores with 2019 revenues of approximately $886 million.
Our E comm driven revenue exiting 2019 was less than 7% of sales.
During the two year period. Since then we have opened an additional 20 stores, increasing our square footage by approximately 16% as well as making significant capability enhancements to our omni channel platform, which supported the growth of E com sales driven pet.
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The increase in consumer participation and changes in the competitive landscape continued to be very favorable for Sportsman's warehouse.
Several several of our closest competitors have either exited or dramatically reduce their firearms and ammunition categories over the past two years.
In addition to the competitive shift our omnichannel execution and the increase in outdoor participation has provided us with market share gains evidenced through our topline sales growth and our consistent outperformance compared to the next data over the last two years.
Not only has there been a significant increase in hunting and shooting sports participation across the industry with the type of person who is buying firearms has become more diverse.
Given our growing distribution reach through our expanded retail footprint third party FFL partnerships and the growth of our E. Comm penetration. We believe we are well positioned to take advantage of these growing trends.
Turning to business performance we.
We are pleased with both our fourth quarter and full year 2021 results. We finished the year with the highest revenue recorded in the history of the company with sales over $1 5 billion.
An increase of nearly 4% over the prior year.
I would like to highlight a few of the key factors that led to the success.
First expansion of our Omnichannel capabilities and continued consumer shift to online drove our e-commerce business to now make up approximately 15% of total sales.
We added 10, new stores during fiscal 2021 and continued to expand our footprint across the U S.
And third we experienced eight experienced exceptional performance in sales at all of our key categories with the exception of hunting and shooting sports highlighted by double digit year over year growth in our footwear and apparel categories.
If you look at our compounded annual growth rate over the last two years, our same store sales are up 43%.
Overall, our business trends continue to remain strong and we are experiencing market share gains in several of our key categories.
We believe the major building blocks in foundational capabilities for continued omnichannel growth are securely in place and can be capitalized on to further grow sales and profitability.
As we look to 2022, our strategic growth drivers to leverage our omnichannel platform are growing our store footprint.
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Leveraging our growing customer files.
Proving the customer shopping experience by remodeling our existing fleet.
Starting with the continued expansion of our retail footprint, we will approach and execute this strategy by using our flexible store format.
A little color into our retail strategy, we target a 30000 square foot box and underserved geographic locations. We will then look at specific market data using a variety of analytics and tools to adapt the size of the box based on the demand of the specific market.
With the ability to open and effectively operated stores smallest 7500 square feet, whereas largest 65000 square feet. We have the flexibility to go to markets, where others can't due to their financial constraints.
This provides us with a significant competitive advantage and growing store square footage all while staying disciplined around a stores financial requirements.
Which our targets of 10% four wall EBITDA and 20% ROIC.
As our stores reach maturity in 18 to 24 months.
I want to highlight two examples of how this flexibility provides us with opportunities to grow and gain market share as compared to our competitors.
And both of these examples the stores are operating well above expectations.
2021, we opened a store in the underserved market of Grand Island, Nebraska, where there is a population of approximately 50000 people.
Our flexible store format allows us to enter a market that we identified as underserved where most of our big box competitors would not think of going due to the limited population.
We also opened a store in Lady Lake, Florida, with a population explosion provided us with a new and growing market again, our flexible store format allowed us to find an attractive second generation box and quickly go to market to serve the growing population of this area.
Just on the success of our Lady Lake store today, we are announcing two additional Florida stores.
Planned to open in fiscal 2022.
In the last 18 months, we also completed a test concept of a 7500 square foot store in Laramie, Wyoming.
Based on this successful test this year, we're slated to open two of our newest spiked camp concept stores. These stores are 10000 square foot boxes at our ground up construction and value engineered.
We will open both of these new stores in the first half of 2022 and they will be located in Riverton Wyoming.
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Cited about this new store format, allowing us to expand into smaller markets.
There is an underserved consumer tailoring, our men's assortment to reflect local needs.
Today, we are announcing five additional locations, bringing our total planned store openings for fiscal 2022 to 10 today.
Today's newly announced stores will be in the following states.
One additional store in California, bringing our total to 16 in that state.
One new store in Colorado, bringing our total to nine within that state.
Two new stores in Florida, bringing our total to three within that state.
One new store in Indiana, bringing our total to three within that state.
I'm proud of what the team has been able to accomplish in real estate given the timing of the termination of our merger as well as the ongoing nationwide construction and supply chain limitations.
Based on the planned 10, new stores, we will end fiscal 2022 with a total of 132 stores in 30 states.
As we look to the future. Our team is actively reviewing over 100 different target markets supporting the opportunity to reach 300 plus stores in the coming years.
Turning to our E Commerce platform for 2022, we see Sportsman's dot com as a way to increase our reach consumers.
Consumers outside our geographic area utilizing digital marketing and our third party FFL partnership program.
Over the past 24 months, we've experienced significant sales growth outside our traditional geographic areas.
All while performing very little digital marketing as.
As we increase our investments in digital marketing and expand our third party FFL partnership program, we expect to continue to capture sales.
From areas that would be considered outside of our normal geographies.
An important element in our efforts to acquire and retain customers outside of our normal geographies is our third party of fulfill partnership program, which provides the largest assortment of firearms from any major retailer to consumers nationwide.
This program was effectively turned off for over a year due to supply chain limitations.
As we turn this program back on the ability for us to ship firearms to any one of our 500 plus partner dealers will allow us to serve customers.
That are not located within a compete convenient drive time do a sportsman's warehouse location.
Finally, as we look to increase traffic and sales on Sportsman's Dot Com, we will continue to expand our online assortment utilizing our large vendor base and improved drop ship capabilities. These capabilities allow us to acquire and retain customers through increased assortment with limited investments.
And inventory.
As we think about our customer file growth over the past 24 months. It is important to understand that dynamic change in our customer base that has occurred outdoor participation rates are the highest on record with 53% of Americans participating in some form of outdoor activity.
National Park attendance and hunting and fishing license sales are all setting records.
This overall increase in outdoor participation has led to a record 14 million first time firearm buyers since the start of 2020 and has provided us with immense growth to our customer file.
During this period, we have grown our customer databases in three ways.
Royalty program has now surpassed $3 2 million members and drives over 45% of revenue.
Our active email database has grown over 150% since the start of the pandemic.
Our co branded and in store credit programs have doubled in a year and have proven to be the most valuable customer that we have in our database.
As you May as you may recall, a couple of years ago, we partnered with <unk> on a co branded credit card and the in store credit program that provided industry, leading features and benefits for those that signed up these programs have seen 200% growth over the last year, most of which has come through.
Acquisitions directly at the point of sale with minimal marketing efforts.
As we do more of this year to market and highlight the benefits to our customers. We expect these programs to grow further and become a larger portion of the overall business.
Over the past two years, the large amount of new customers enter the sportsman's warehouse or shopped on Sportsman's dot com for the first time as we serve their needs our databases have grown significantly and our capabilities and have provided us with the opportunity to maximize engagement.
For example, our data shows that over 20% of first time buyer or buyers have a propensity to buy second firearm and the following 12 months.
Data also shows that our firearm customer drives four times more revenue than a non firearm customer and conducts.
Two times more transactions that are nine non firearm customer.
Leveraging the growth of our database through personalization technologies and the improvement of in stocks across the board, including ammunition for the first time in 18 months provides us with the opportunity to unity to drive in store traffic and Reengage with new customers that we've gained over the last 24.
Months.
As we look to the future we have immense opportunities to grow these databases increase retention and maximize the lifetime value of our customers.
Turning to our store operations in 2021, we started making an investment to refurbishing our fleet with 19 stores remodeled and an additional seven planned for 2022.
Our goal in these remodels as to keep the stores fresh through improving the presentation of merchandise to maximize basket size optimize the flow of customer traffic to strengthen our convenience proposition modernizing the lighting in the sidelines for the user experience and reducing our environmental impact.
Through changes to our lighting water and refuse programs.
While the purpose of these refreshes is not solely focused on return on investment we are seeing encouraging customer trends and traffic patterns and stores that we completed in 2021.
An area, we continue to experience success and will grow in 2022 is the development of a store within a store concepts with some of our key vendor partners. These concepts include adding end caps to highlight specific brands or dedicating sections of the store to highlight even more robust offering from our vendor.
Partners by enhancing the visual appearance in stores, we've seen a met sales increases in the product that is being showcased and these concepts.
Finally, before I turn the call over to Jeff.
I want to highlight a couple of team members that we've added in the last few months. We are very excited to welcome Riley timber VP of Investor Relations and Tom Klema, our VP of supply chain the company.
These individuals are filling roles.
We view as critical to their success and growth of our company and you will see us continue to add individuals in positions that will complement our existing organization and support our plans for continued growth and expansion.
With that said I will turn the call over to Jeff to review, our fourth quarter and full year fiscal 2021 results and discuss our Q1 2022 guidance.
Thank you John I'll begin my remarks today with a review of our fourth quarter and full year full year fiscal 2021 results I will then review our outlook for the first quarter of 2022.
Net sales for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2021 were $416 3 million compared to $438 2 million in the fourth quarter of 2020, a decrease of 5% over the prior year period. The decrease was primarily driven by a tough comparable period as we anniversaried the events of January six 2002.
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Same store sales decreased 10, 8% in the quarter compared with the same quarter of the prior year. This decrease was primarily driven by a decrease in firearms and ammunition sales of 23, 1% and 26% respectively.
These decreases were partially offset by increases in our footwear and apparel category, a 17, 2% and two 7% respectively over the comparable quarter.
Fourth quarter 2021, gross profit was $136 6 million.
Compared to a $142 million in the fourth quarter of 2020, a decrease of $5 $4 million.
Gross margin was 32, 8% for the quarter, an improvement of 40 basis points versus the prior year fourth quarter period product margins and favorable mix contributed approximately 200 basis points to the gross margin improvement over the prior year period, which was perfect fully offset by higher overall freight call.
SG&A expense of $113 4 million for the fourth quarter of 2021 was an increase of $10 8 million or 10, 5% compared to the fourth quarter of the prior year.
As a percentage of net sales SG&A expense increased to 27, 2% compared to the 23, 4% in the fourth quarter of the prior year.
This increase was primarily driven by retention bonuses paid to key employees of $2 5 million in costs associated with the terminated merger of $3 3 million both of which are nonrecurring expenses.
SG&A also increased during the period as we return to normal staffing levels within our stores when compared to the prior year period, as well as increasing spend on certain types of marketing when compared to the prior year.
Income from operations was $23 2 million in the fourth quarter of 2021 compared to $39 4 million in the prior year period, a decrease of $16 2 million.
Other income in the fourth quarter of this year with $55 million relating to a one time payment received in connection with the termination of the merger agreement with the great outdoors group.
Net income for the quarter was $58 4 million.
Or $1 31 per diluted share as compared to net income of $29 6 million or <unk> 66 per diluted share in the prior year period. This represents a year over year improvements at <unk> 65 per diluted share.
Adjusted net income in the fourth quarter of 2021 was $22 million or <unk> 49 cents per diluted share compared to adjusted net income of $33 5 million or <unk> 75 per diluted share in the fourth quarter of the prior year.
Adjusted EBITDA for the quarter of 2021 was $38 5 million compared to $51 5 million in the prior year period.
Turning to our full year results.
For the full year of 2021 net sales were $1 501 billion.
Compared to $1 45 billion for the full year 2020, an increase of $54 3 million or three 7%. These results were driven by the opening of 10, new stores during 2021 and strong growth in our E Commerce business.
Full year 2021 same store sales decreased by two 2% compared to the prior year. This slight decline compared to 2020 was primarily driven by declines in our firearms and ammunition category of 12, 5% and 13, 7% respectively.
These declines were offset by increases in footwear of 21, 2% apparel 12, 7% optics electronics and accessories at 7% and camping, a two 6% when compared with 2020.
These increases illustrates the fundamental strength in our overall business as each of these categories produced higher gross margins in our shooting sports category.
Full year 2021, gross profit was $493 million compared to $476 $5 million in 2020, an increase of $13 8 million full year 2021 gross margin was 32, 6% a decline of 20 basis points versus the prior year gross margins for the full year.
Here were pressured by higher freight and transportation costs, partially offset by higher overall product margins and favorable sales mix when compared to the prior year.
We expect transportation costs to remain a headwind during 2022.
Full year 2021, SG&A expense of $399 7 million was an increase of $46 million or 13% compared to the full year 2020.
As a percentage of net sales full year SG&A increased to 26, 5% compared to 24, 4% for the full year 2020.
The increase in absolute dollars and as a percentage of net sales can largely be attributed to hydro higher payroll expenses for 2021.
The higher payroll was due to the opening of 10, new stores during the year minimum wage increases to many of our store employees and a one time retention bonus paid to certain employees. Additionally.
Additionally, we incurred $9 7 million in expenses relating to the terminated merger.
We also incurred additional rent depreciation and other general administrative expenses for the 10, new stores opened during the year.
Full year 2021 income from operations was $90 6 million.
Compared to $122 7 million in the prior year period.
Full year interest expense decreased by $2 $1 million to $1 4 million.
This was the result of lower debt balances during 2021.
Full year net income with $108 5 million.
Or $2 44 per diluted share compared to net income of $91 4 million.
Our $2 six per diluted share for the prior year.
Full year 2021, adjusted net income was $76 8 million or $1 72 per diluted share compared to adjusted net income of $99 1 million or $2 23 per diluted share in 2020.
Full year 2021, adjusted EBITDA was $136 6 million.
Compared to a $163 2 million in the prior year.
Turning to our balance sheet and liquidity full year 2021, ending inventory was $386 6 million compared to $243 4 million at the end of 2020, an increase of $143 2 million due.
Due to this due to the significant increase in demand for our products and the global supply challenges. We ended fiscal 2020 with inventory levels much lower than we prefer that said, we spent much of 2021 catching up and making significant investments in our inventory to bring it to a level, where we believe we can best serve our customers.
This year end level of inventory, we feel our store stores are well positioned to handle our current sales demand and supply chain challenges.
10 stores added in 2021 as well as the 10 planned stores for 2022 will increase our inventory on average by $2 4 million per store.
For the full year 2021, we incurred approximately $54 million of net capital expenditures, primarily primarily related to the construction of 10, new stores and the refurbishment of 19 existing stores during the year.
Fiscal year 2021 cash used in operating activities was $21 6 million versus cash provided by operating activities of $238 $8 million for the for fiscal year 2020. This difference is primarily due to the replenishment of inventory as noted earlier and reduction of our accounts payable.
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Our liquidity continues to be a strength as we ended 2021 was <unk> $77 million on our line of credit, which was primarily related to the inventory catch up needed to support the growth of the business. Our cash balance remained strong as well ending the year with $57 million in cash at the end of the full year.
2021, we had approximately $146 million of availability on our revolving credit facility.
Our total liquidity, including cash on hand at the end of 2021 was $203 million.
We remain confident that our strong balance sheet, good liquidity and ability to generate positive cash flow strategically positions us to expand our store reach and take advantage of opportunistic M&A opportunities. We are also pleased that the board's approval of a $75 million share buyback program and see it as is.
As a significant step in our capital allocation plan.
We plan to execute this program through purchases made on the open market over the coming months.
Turning now to our guidance given the current market conditions and the tremendous growth. The company has seen over the last two years, we will only be providing quarterly guidance for the time being starting with our net sales outlook.
We estimate first quarter net sales to be in the range of 300 million to $310 million.
Same store sales in the first quarter of 2022 are anticipated to be in the range of down 14% to down 11%.
Adjusted EPS for the first quarter of 2021 is expected to be in the range of negative one to positive one thing.
To give you some full perspective on the full year as John mentioned, we are planning to open 10, new stores in 2022.
Four of which are planned for the first half of the year, while the remaining six will fall in the second half of the year include.
Including the opening of our two spiked can't format. We expect the average square footage of these new stores to be approximately 23000 square feet.
We anticipate our adjusted EBITDA margin to be in the high single digits.
We anticipate our 2022 effective tax rate to be approximately 26%.
Finally, we expect our 2022 capital expenditures to be approximately 48% to $55 million as we continued to expand our store footprint refreshing, our existing fleet and invest in technology.
That concludes our prepared remarks today with that I will now turn the call back over to the operator for questions.
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Our first question is from Mark Smith with Lake Street Capital markets. Please proceed.
Hi, guys good to talk again here.
First question for me can you just give us your thoughts on gross profit margin you know big picture as we shift back to maybe a more normal sales mix of firearms and ammunition the impact that might have on gross profit.
Yes, yes, Mark this is Jeff thanks for the question.
We looked at Q4 I would tell you that we saw very healthy returned to a normalized sales mix evidenced by the increase in absolute gross margin percentage that we saw as we think about going into the future. We see a very healthy trend in that sales mix to your point.
With less centered on firearms and ammo and more centered on our other categories are reverting back to our historical trends.
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Perfect and then you guys had called out some obvious labor pressure any other places that you're seeing maybe inflationary pressure whether it be on gross profit margin or on SG&A.
We're still seeing pressures from a freight perspective, as we think about 2022 those pressures we expect to continue through Q2 call. It and then we get into a much easier comp in the back half of the year.
Other than that as you look at SG&A I would call out that last year, we did not have certain types of marketing turned on so as we think about 2022 and we go back into a normal promotion aerie environment those types of marketing will be turning back on throughout the year.
Perfect.
Then I just wanted to ask about current sales trends as we're seeing consumers with inflationary pressure.
Some inventory come back in certain categories and anything you guys can call out even even as we look at the last two months. So far in this quarter on changes in consumer behavior with gas prices or anything else that are worth calling out.
Hey, Mark its John good to talk to you again as I think about the components driving consumer behavior certainly the most the largest one that all retail is is.
Experience right now is the comp of the two nearly two trillion for the stimulus last year, it's really hard for me to parse out how much inflationary pressures including cost of fuel.
Are contributing to those pressures in.
In the consumer the way I'd like to think about it is for our business in the industry. We're in the stimulus checks or a short term.
Impactor from last year, and while fuel costs and inflation will certainly have an impact on disposable income for our consumer we actually believe and are confident that our industry is more is able to weather those changes better than most.
As folks have limited more limited available income, they're more likely to stay close to home can't fish hike Hunt and participated in the shooting sports than they may be traveling to a destination for a week vacation at the beach.
Great. Thank you I'll jump back in the queue.
Okay.
Our next question is from Ryan.
All with Craig Hallum Capital Group. Please proceed.
Good afternoon, guys. Congrats on the business success over the last year or two here.
John I want to piggyback off that last question. So I agree that you guys are.
Better position than much of retail in this inflationary and the various macro conditions going on right now, but can you also talk just relative to your specific competitors in your categories. How your everyday value focus could potentially also position you better.
Absolutely Ryan good to talk to you in our business has always.
But based on the value proposition of convenience and everyday low pricing.
You've never seen Sportsman's warehouse drive <unk>.
Demand through significant promotion, we certainly have a cadence of promotion around the holidays. So as our customers think about how farther dollar will go in supporting activities with their family and friends Sportsman's warehouse is always on the top of mind as you think about the changes in consumer behavior.
And everybody's desire to spend more time in the outdoors and less time in a mall or a destination shopping experience to sportsman's warehouse.
Lay out in store component, certainly provide a greater opportunity for those customers to save money and get in and get out to the outdoors versus spending hours shopping and a large destination.
Then just moving over to e-commerce .
Was maybe I missed it if you gave it but how much was shipped from your D. C. In Salt Lake versus your local stores of your ecommerce sales and then secondly, any plans to build out a new distribution center potentially in the eastern part of the U S or other parts.
Brian We havent provided the percentage of sales by source, what I can tell you over the last year, we've dramatically increased the percentage of E. Com sales that are coming from store inventory versus our distribution center and as we think about the future our drop ship.
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As we think about distribution space requirements.
We'll not open a permanent distribution center in 2022, but I am currently evaluating the modeling around a permanent distribution center that would open at some point in 2023 and as we finalize that modeling we will be able to provide additional details around the sizing and <unk>.
As well as estimated capital for that new distribution center.
Great. One last one for me I know youre, not giving full year guidance, but reasonable at least directionally to say that the comps get easier throughout the year that Q1 is the high watermark potentially from a tough year over year comp standpoint, yes.
Yes, you are correct in your thinking Q1 is the toughest comp that we have for the full year just due to the stimulus that we're anniversarying as of March 15th to John's point that was two trillion dollars that entered the market. The consumer last year was given a huge influx of expendable income, while we're seeing promising trends thus far this year.
That is not as significant as we expected which is evidenced in the guidance given the comps do get much easier as we progress throughout the year and the impact of the stimulus lesson.
Great. Thanks, John Jeff Good luck guys. Thanks.
Thanks Ryan.
As a reminder, this star one on your telephone keypad, if he would like to ask a question. We will just pause for a brief moment to Paul for final questions.
And we do have a follow up question from Mark Smith with Lake Street capital markets, especially.
Hey, guys I, just wanted to ask and John you talked about it on the call a little bit just these refurbish stores you said the the emphasis really isn't ROI, but can you talk a little bit about or why what kind of returns you are getting maybe what kind of traffic trends you're seeing at these refurbished stores.
Yes, Mark as we think about refurbishing stores. Our primary focus is ensuring that our stores stay up to date and what I mean by that is some of these stores that we have in our fleet have been around 20, plus years and they are performing extremely well in sales and profit, but over time, they start to lose a little bit of that.
Or just as they age so last year, we set out on a path to start refurbishing the oldest stores first we COVID-19.
And the ROI, while I can't give you the exact numbers, we are seeing encouraging trends in.
Customer traffic within those stores and basket size and a part of that is a change and lay out in how we are displaying some merchandise changes sightlines within those stores, how we're thinking about checkout the use of technology in those stores, both social and merchandise based and it is starting.
To show a nice trend in returning an investment on those upgrades as we think about 2022. We currently have plans to do seven additional stores and our expectation would be to do some number of stores each and every year going forward.
Perfect and then a similar question could you give any similar metrics just as we think about new stores, obviously, it sounds like that the kind of smaller format is doing well with your plans to move forward with more of those but as we think about you know new stores, how they've been performing and maybe what kind of return.
Mix Youre seeing out of the gate on new stores.
Yeah, Mark we've we've maintained our discipline on our financial expectations to be returned from each new store.
That's a 10% four wall, EBITDA, and 20% ROIC, including inventory at maturity, which has been about 18 to 24 months. We've also said in the past and we continue to say.
We're very proud of we don't have a single store in our entire fleet today.
That isn't hitting those hurdles.
Bond maturity.
We the new stores that opened last.
Last year Mark are performing ahead of plan.
And we're very very pleased with the performance I referenced in my remarks the <unk>.
Lady Lake, Florida store.
And that was a little bit of outside of our geographic areas. As you know our plan has historically to stay about 100 miles from an existing store to leverage supply chain and marketing capabilities.
As we entered into that market being a very fast growing market. We immediately saw significant response from the local community as it being underserved and we set out on a path to look at the entire state of Florida, and then within a couple of months, we've already signed two more leases to enter Florida during 2022 and we.
We'll continue to evaluate other locations in that area as we see not only participation that knee outdoor but a move in population to the state of Florida.
Excellent. Thank you guys.
Thanks Mark.
We have reached the end of our question and answer session I would like to turn the call back over to management for closing comments.
Thank you I want to thank you for joining the conversation today and thank you to all of our dedicated employees around the country for their commitment to make Sportsman's warehouse, a leading company in the outdoor industry together, we look forward to continuing to serve our customers. Thank you very much.
Thank you. This does conclude today's conference you may disconnect at this time and thank you for your participation.
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