{"id":3630,"date":"2014-10-26T12:47:49","date_gmt":"2014-10-26T12:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/azureblog.smallvehicleresource.com\/?p=3630"},"modified":"2014-10-26T12:47:49","modified_gmt":"2014-10-26T12:47:49","slug":"arctic-cat-reports-earnings-for-fiscal-2015-2q","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/26\/arctic-cat-reports-earnings-for-fiscal-2015-2q\/","title":{"rendered":"Arctic Cat Reports Earnings For Fiscal 2015 2Q"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3599\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/azureblog.smallvehicleresource.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/WildcatTrail_Lime_2014-LARGE.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3599\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3599\" alt=\"Despite weak ATV sales, side-by-side revenue increased as Arctic Cat Wildcat Trail models continued to sell well.\" src=\"http:\/\/azureblog.smallvehicleresource.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/WildcatTrail_Lime_2014-LARGE-300x234.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/WildcatTrail_Lime_2014-LARGE-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/WildcatTrail_Lime_2014-LARGE-383x300.jpg 383w, https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/WildcatTrail_Lime_2014-LARGE.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3599\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Despite weak ATV sales, side-by-side sales increased as demand for Arctic Cat Wildcat Trail models remained strong.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Arctic Cat reported revenue of $262.5 million for the fiscal 2015 second quarter, an increase of about 10% from last year. Sales were driven by their snowmobile and parts, garments and accessories (PG&amp;A) divisions which offset weakness in their ATV business that includes ATVs and side-by-sides. The ATV business declined 4% from the previous year&#8217;s quarter and 10% year to date. The company fell short of their expectations for ATV sales but strong sales continued for their Wildcat side-by-side models. There was also a significant charge for a recall of some of their older ATVs. Some highlights of the earnings call as it relates to utility vehicles\/side-by-sides include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>15 new 2015 model year ATVs and side-by-sides were unveiled in the quarter<\/li>\n<li>Demand for their side-by-side products remains strong driven by the Wildcat Trail line and recently introduced Wildcat Sport<\/li>\n<li>Wildcat sales also helped generate revenue for the PG&amp;A business<\/li>\n<li>Management reports Arctic Cat is outperforming the overall side-by-side market<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"Arctic Cat Reports Earnings For Fiscal 2015 2Q\" href=\"http:\/\/seekingalpha.com\/article\/2592065-arctic-cats-acat-ceo-christopher-twomey-on-q2-2015-results-earnings-call-transcript\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Learn more: ??Seekingalpha.com<\/a> (earnings call transcript)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Comment:<\/strong>?? Despite weakness in their ATV business Arctic Cat remains a strong competitor to Polaris in the high performance segment of the side-by-side market. They are particularly strong in the trail sub-segment where the vehicles are narrower to allow access to legacy ATV trails.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arctic Cat reported revenue of $262.5 million for the fiscal 2015 second quarter, an increase of about 10% from last year. Sales were driven by their snowmobile and parts, garments and accessories (PG&amp;A) divisions which offset weakness in their ATV &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/26\/arctic-cat-reports-earnings-for-fiscal-2015-2q\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,14,23,27],"tags":[102,388,1424],"class_list":["post-3630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-management","category-market-trends","category-sales-figures","category-utility-vehicles","tag-arctic-cat","tag-earnings-call","tag-wildcat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3630"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3632,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3630\/revisions\/3632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}