American Outdoor Brands (AOUT) executive compensation, 2025 proxy

Brian D. Murphy, President and Chief Executive Officer, was paid $2.9M in fiscal 2025, up 18% from $2.4M the year before.

Filed
September 12, 2025
Annual meeting
October 27, 2025
Pay year
fiscal 2025
Named executives
3
CEO total pay
$2.9M+18% vs prior year
CEO pay in equity
38%$1.1M in awards
CFO total compensation
$1,214,242Fiscal 2025
COO total compensation
$727,550Fiscal 2025
CEO stock awards
$1,085,767Grant-date fair value
CEO incentive compensation
$1,110,897Fiscal 2025
CFO stock awards
$296,117Grant-date fair value
COO stock awards
$148,058Grant-date fair value

How Murphy was paid

$2.9M in total for fiscal 2025, as reported in the Summary Compensation Table. Equity awards are valued at grant, not at what they turned out to be worth.

Salary22%Stock awards38%Non-equity incentive39%All other compensation2%

Named executive officers

ExecutiveTotal
Brian D. MurphyPresident and Chief Executive Officer$2,862,670
H. Andrew FulmerExecutive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, and Treasurer$1,214,242
Brent A. VulgamottChief Operating Officer$727,550

What changed and why

  • $2.9M$2,862,670 was CEO total compensation in 2025, versus $2,427,407 in 2024.
  • $1.1M$1,110,897 was the CEO’s non-equity incentive compensation for fiscal 2025.
  • $1.1M$1,085,767 was the CEO’s 2025 stock-award grant-date fair value.
  • $1.2M$1,151,689 was the maximum value of the CEO’s fiscal 2025 PSU award.
  • PSUs vest based on relative stock performance against the Russell 2000 over approximately three years.
  • The company offers no defined benefit pension or nonqualified deferred compensation plan to executive officers.

Other American Outdoor Brands proxy statements

About this page

Figures are automated and can be wrong; check the filing for the exact numbers. Totals follow SEC rules, which value stock and option awards at grant. Read the DEF 14A proxy statement for footnotes and the compensation committee's full reasoning.