Malibu Boats, Inc. (MBUU)
Recreational boat builder, one pattern. Read November 9, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending June 30, 2026, filed August 27, 2026. Ranked 144 of the 240 Consumer Cyclical companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
23%
projected from METR's April 2026 measurement and Epoch's November 2026 index
End of 2028
29%
Employees, annual report
3,000
Leading staffing pattern
Ship and Boat Building
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
Now is projected from METR's April 2026 measurement and Epoch's November 2026 index.
- Now23%
- End of 202728%
- End of 202829%
- End of 203030%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 69%
- Becomes checking a model's work 27%
- Handed over with lighter checks 4%
The filing states approximately 3,000 employees worldwide at June 30, 2026 and describes boat production across three brands with no count by function, so the whole workforce is read at ship and boat building by description.
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: 23% now, 28% at the end of 2027, 29% at the end of 2028, 30% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 30% desk work, 12% people work and 59% 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 69% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 27% becomes checking a model's work and 4% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
3,000 employees as of June 30, 2026 (stated). Not stated; the filing names U.S. locations in Tennessee, Kansas and Florida and overseas divisions including Finland, with 75 employees at Larsmo, Finland the only count by place.
The filing: “As of June 30, 2026, we had approximately 3,000 employees worldwide.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Ship and Boat Building | 100% | The filing describes boat production across its Malibu, Pursuit and Cobalt brands, with training in gel coat application and fiberglass repair and 93% of production leaders promoted internally, so the whole workforce is read at ship and boat building by description (c). |
What the filing says about the workforce: Approximately 3,000 employees worldwide at June 30, 2026, up from 2,200 a year earlier; approximately 75 employees at the Larsmo, Finland facility are covered by a collective bargaining agreement; about 93% of production leaders were promoted from within; an Engineering Internship Program with colleges.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Ship and Boat Building, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five. Now is projected from METR's April 2026 measurement and Epoch's November 2026 index.
- Huntington Ingalls Industries, Inc. (HII, 44,000 employees)30% now, 40% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
15 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing describes an embedded artificial intelligence assistant, Co-skipper, in its boat platform beside service requests, trip tracking and remote monitoring, says its employees use generative AI and automated decision-making technologies in their work, and names AI regulation among its risks.
- “The platform includes an embedded artificial intelligence assistant, "Co-skipper," in addition to built-in features like after-sales service requests, trip tracking, status alerts, remote access, and monitoring.”
- “Our employees and personnel use generative artificial intelligence ("AI") technologies and/or automated decision-making technologies to perform their work, and the disclosure and use of personal data in AI technologies is subject to various privacy laws and other privacy obligations.”
- “Governments have passed and are likely to pass additional laws and regulations regulating AI and/or automated decision-making technologies.”
- “We also use machine learning and AI technologies, including generative AI, in our products and services.”
- “The development and use of AI technologies present various privacy and security risks that may impact our business.”
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 20230median 1
- Fiscal 20241median 4
- Fiscal 20254median 10
- Fiscal 202615
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.
| Period | Employees | Filed | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-30 | 3,000 | 2026-08-27 | 10-K |
| 2025-06-30 | 2,200 | 2025-08-28 | 10-K |
| 2024-06-30 | 2,250 | 2024-08-29 | 10-K |
| 2023-06-30 | 3,095 | 2023-08-29 | 10-K |
| 2022-06-30 | 3,015 | 2022-08-25 | 10-K |
| 2021-06-30 | 2,645 | 2021-08-26 | 10-K |
| 2020-06-30 | 1,795 | 2020-08-31 | 10-K |
| 2019-06-30 | 1,835 | 2019-08-29 | 10-K |
| 2018-06-30 | 1,345 | 2018-09-06 | 10-K |
| 2017-06-30 | 1,244 | 2017-09-08 | 10-K |
| 2016-06-30 | 509 | 2016-09-09 | 10-K |
| 2015-06-30 | 411 | 2015-09-10 | 10-K |
| 2014-06-30 | 372 | 2014-09-25 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- No count by segment or function; the three boat brands are one manufacturing pattern by description (c).
- The U.S. share is not stated; the data service's revenue geography (Non-US 100%) is not a usable table and was not used.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001590976-26-000037, 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.
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Questions about this company
- How much of Malibu Boats, Inc.'s working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 23% now and 29% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Malibu Boats, Inc.'s own annual report describes and BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. It is an estimate with a stated method. It is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings, and it says nothing about what the company will do.
- How many people does Malibu Boats, Inc. employ?
- 3,000 as of June 30, 2026, as its annual report for the period ending June 30, 2026 states.
- What kinds of work make up Malibu Boats, Inc.'s workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 1 industry staffing pattern, the largest Ship and Boat Building; by those patterns the work is about 30% desk work, 12% people work and 59% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Malibu Boats, Inc.'s annual report say about AI?
- 15 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2026 name it in 0, 0, 0, 1, 4 and 15 sentences, year by year. They are counted and quoted on this page, never judged: a count says how much a filing talks about AI, not what the company does with it.
- How is this estimated?
- Claude Fable 5.1 read the annual report under the Index's written rubric (version 1) on November 9, 2026: the stated headcount, the share in the U.S. when stated, and the workforce as a blend of industry staffing patterns. The estimates are the site's industry estimates weighted by those shares, from O*NET tasks with estimated lengths and METR's measurements of how long a task AI models can finish. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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