{"id":1351,"date":"2015-05-05T13:05:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T13:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2015\/05\/05\/a-couple-of-tidbits-from-rugers\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:25:26","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:25:26","slug":"a-couple-of-tidbits-from-rugers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=1351","title":{"rendered":"A Couple Of Tidbits From Ruger&#8217;s Quarterly Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:10679,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.ruger.com\\\/corporate\\\/PDF\\\/ER-2015-05-04.pdf&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/ruger.com\\\/corporate\\\/PDF\\\/ER-2015-05-04.pdf&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:10680,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/edge.media-server.com\\\/m\\\/p\\\/ttdo8ur4&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>\nAfter the close of the stock market yesteday, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ruger.com\/corporate\/PDF\/ER-2015-05-04.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sturm, Ruger &amp; Co. released their quarterly earnings report.<\/a> Below are a couple of tidbits that I gleaned from it which I thought were interesting.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>In the first quarter of 2015, net sales and the estimated sell-through of the Company\u2019s products<br \/>\nfrom the independent distributors to retailers increased 12% and 15%, respectively, from the<br \/>\nfourth quarter of 2014. The National Instant Criminal Background Check System background<br \/>\nchecks (as adjusted by the National Shooting Sports Foundation) decreased 15% during the<br \/>\nsame period.<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>New products, including the AR-556 modern sporting rifle and the LC9s pistol, represented<br \/>\n$22.8 million or 17% of firearm sales in the first quarter of 2015. New product sales include<br \/>\nonly major new products that were introduced in the past two years.<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It looks like Ruger has done well even if the market has contracted somewhat. It would be interesting to know how much of the new sales were attributable to the AR-556 and how much to the LC9s. With the market demands for ARs cooling somewhat if prices are any indication, I&#8217;m guessing the LC9s represented more than 50% of the $22.8 million in sales.<\/p>\n<p>Ruger holds it annual shareholder&#8217;s meeting this morning. It is being webcast and you can see it at this <a href=\"http:\/\/edge.media-server.com\/m\/p\/ttdo8ur4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the close of the stock market yesteday, Sturm, Ruger &amp; Co. released their quarterly earnings report. Below are&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[680],"class_list":["post-1351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ruger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10313,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351\/revisions\/10313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}