Academy Sports and Outdoors, Inc. (ASO)

Sporting goods retailer, 23,000. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending January 31, 2026, filed March 17, 2026. Ranked 10 of the 85 Consumer Cyclical companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

A sporting goods retailer whose filing states one total and nothing by kind of work, so the whole workforce takes the sporting goods retail pattern.

The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.

What follows from the reading

Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 25% now, 30% at the end of 2027, 31% at the end of 2028, 31% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 31% desk work, 27% people work and 43% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 68% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 17% becomes checking a model's work and 14% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.

Headcount

23,000 employees as of January 31, 2026 (stated). The filing states employees in the U.S. and Hong Kong with no count by country; the Hong Kong office is a sourcing office.

The filing: “As of January 31, 2026, we employed approximately 23,000 team members in the U.S. and Hong Kong.”

The workforce as industry patterns

What the filing says about the workforce: About 23,000 team members as of January 31, 2026 in the U.S. and Hong Kong (22,000 in each of the four prior years); three distribution centers.

Companies read with the same leading pattern

Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Sporting Goods, Hobby, and Musical Instrument Retailers, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.

• DICK'S Sporting Goods, Inc. (DKS, 105,200 employees)25% now, 31% by 2028

What the filing says about AI

13 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI 13 times, as a technology it uses and expects to keep using, with the risks of managing it.

• “Risks Related to Our Business and Industry overall decline in the health of the economy and consumer discretionary spending; risks associated with our reliance on internationally manufactured merchandise which exposes us to various international risks, including additional tariffs; our ability to operate, update or implement our information systems; our ability to manage our use of machine lear...”
• “We use and expect to continue to use machine learning and other types of artificial intelligence in our business, and challenges with properly managing its use could adversely affect our business.”
• “We use and expect to continue to use artificial intelligence and machine learning technology that is rapidly evolving and gaining capabilities.”
• “Advancements in technology may allow us to expand the use of artificial intelligence, including generative artificial intelligence, into key operational and/or administrative aspects of our business over time.”
• “Our business, financial condition, and results of operations may be adversely affected if the output of our use of artificial intelligence is or is alleged to be deficient, inaccurate, or biased.”

Its annual reports, year by year

Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector

• Fiscal 20210median 0
• Fiscal 20220median 0
• Fiscal 20231median 1
• Fiscal 20245median 4
• Fiscal 202513median 10

Headcount by filing year

As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.

Limits of this reading

• One pattern by description: the filing gives no count by kind of work.
• No U.S. share is stated.

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001817358-26-000031, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.