SharkNinja, Inc. (SN)

Appliance brand company, products made by partners. Read November 8, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed March 2, 2026. Ranked 18 of the 240 Consumer Cyclical companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

SharkNinja states about 4,143 employees in 13 countries and says its products are made by factory partners, so the design, marketing and sourcing workforce is read at durable goods wholesaling by description, as a brand company without plants.

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: 35% now, 39% at the end of 2027, 40% at the end of 2028, 40% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 40% desk work, 21% people work and 38% 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 59% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 28% becomes checking a model's work and 12% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.

Headcount

4,143 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). The filing states no count by country; employees sit in about 13 countries and 31 offices; the data service shows 67% of revenue in North America and 33% in Europe.

The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, approximately 4,143 employees located in approximately 13 countries and 31 offices drive our success.”

The workforce as industry patterns

What the filing says about the workforce: The filing counts about 4,143 employees, which another sentence calls full-time employees, up from 2,619 at the end of 2021; manufacturing is done by factory partners; no hourly, part-time, union or location counts.

Companies read with the same leading pattern

Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Merchant Wholesalers, Durable Goods (4232, 4233, 4235, 4236, 4237, and 4239 only), 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.

• Ferguson plc (FERG, 35,000 employees)35% now, 40% by 2028
• Arrow Electronics, Inc. (ARW, 22,230 employees)37% now, 44% by 2028
• WESCO International, Inc. (WCC, 21,000 employees)35% now, 40% by 2028
• Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co. (RS, 15,700 employees)35% now, 40% by 2028
• Avnet, Inc. (AVT, 15,040 employees)35% now, 40% by 2028
• QXO, Inc. (QXO, 7,794 employees)35% now, 40% by 2028
• Boise Cascade Company (BCC, 7,680 employees)28% now, 32% by 2028
• Watsco, Inc. (WSO, 7,050 employees)35% now, 40% by 2028

What the filing says about AI

17 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI as a risk in its operations and products, as a technology it invests in with data analytics, robotics and sensors to develop products faster, and as the basis of the detection and response platform that monitors its networks, in 17 sentences.

• “Use of artificial intelligence in our operations and product offerings could result in reputational or competitive harm, legal or regulatory liability and adverse impacts on our results of operations. iv Risks Related to Our Legal, Tax and Regulatory Environment From time to time, we may be subject to legal proceedings, regulatory disputes and governmental inquiries that could cause us to incur...”
• “To remain competitive, we must invest in developing tools and processes to improve the speed at which we are able to develop competitive products, including significant investment in the development and advancement of new technologies, such as artificial intelligence, data analytics, robotics, sensor technology, data storage, among others, as well as other technologies in the future that are no...”
• “We continue to assess potential threats and make investments seeking to address and prevent these threats, including monitoring of our networks and systems using an artificial intelligence-based detection and automated response platform, and upgrading skills, employee training and security policies for us and our third-party providers.”
• “However, because the techniques used in these cyberattacks change frequently (including the used of artificial intelligence to execute sophisticated attacks) and may be difficult to detect for periods of time, we may face difficulties in anticipating and implementing adequate preventative measures.”
• “Use of artificial intelligence in our operations and product offerings could result in reputational or competitive harm, legal or regulatory liability and adverse impacts on our results of operations.”

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

• The company designs and markets appliances made by factory partners, so the appliance manufacturing pattern would misstate its workforce; it is read at durable goods wholesaling by description, with a large engineering staff inside.
• No count by country is stated; the U.S. share is left null.

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001957132-26-000015, 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.