DICK'S Sporting Goods, Inc.
DKS
| Last price | 126.78 USD |
|---|---|
| Change | -29.30% |
| Intraday range | 15.62% |
| Volume vs baseline | 28.5× |
| Sigma move | -11.7 σ |
| Rank in past 100 days | #1 |
| Move started | 2026-08-25 13:30opening bell |
What broke was not the business of selling sneakers — it was the acquisition. Comparable sales at the legacy DICK'S business still grew in the quarter while the acquired Foot Locker business went backwards, and the company filed the quarter, together with a cut to its full-year outlook, before the bell. DKS -29% in a single session.
MechanismThe filing itself lays out the shape of the fall: the 8-K carries Item 2.02 (results of operations) and Item 8.01 (other events) at once, and the earnings release attached to it shows comparable sales still growing at the legacy DICK'S business while Foot Locker, folded in this year, turned negative in a promotional footwear market. The company held the full-year comparable-sales outlook for its own business, cut the range for Foot Locker, and lowered the full-year operating-income outlook for both. What was repriced, then, is not one quarter's number but the earnings base of the combined company: a deal done to get bigger was booked as a drag for the first time. In Item 8.01 of that same filing the board declared its next quarterly cash dividend as usual — the one thing that did not change that day. The news landed before the bell and the first bar at 13:30 UTC is already a gap, so the lag cannot be measured and we do not print one. Per-share earnings and the comparable-sales percentages are all in that exhibit, one click away through the filing on this card, which is why none of them are repeated here.
This attribution rests on a first-party source — the issuer's own filing or announcement — and the timestamps line up.
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- First-partySEC EDGARDICK'S SPORTING GOODS, INC. 8-K (8-K) — ITEM 2.02.2026-08-25 07:01