Company: JOUT
Filing Date: 2025-01-10
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001140361-25-000715
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Company: JOHNSON OUTDOORS INC
Filing Date: 2025-01-10
Form: DEF 14A
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, the Company’s peer group is the S&P 600 Consumer Discretionary Sector, as reflected in our stock performance graph in our Annual Report on Form 10-K, which was filed with the Commission on December 11, 2024. |

| (4) | Our company-selected measure, which is the measure we believe represents the most important financial performance not otherwise presented in the table above that we use to link compensation actually paid to our NEOs for fiscal 2024 to our performance, ispre-tax income, as discussed in our “Compensation Discussion and Analysis – Components of Executive Compensation – Annual Cash Incentives.” |

Relationship Between Pay and Performance As described above under “Executive Compensation,” including the “Compensation Discussion and Analysis,” we generally seek to (1) provide a market competitive target total compensation opportunity that is straightforward and understandable to all stakeholders, (2) through incentive compensation programs, provide for actual pay that is commensurate with performance (i.e., “pay for performance”), with meaningful upside and downside opportunities, balanced between short-and long-term perspectives, and focused on delivering enhanced value to shareholders, and (3) structure the arrangements in a cost-effective manner and without encouraging unreasonable or excessive risk-taking. We, therefore, do not specifically align our performance measures with “compensation actually paid” as determined under Item 402(v) of Regulation S-K for a particular fiscal year. Nonetheless, in accordance with such rule we are providing the following descriptions of the relationships between information presented in the above Pay Versus Performance Table.

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The charts shown below present a graphical comparison of compensation actually paid to our CEO and the average compensation actually paid to our Other NEOs set forth in the Pay Versus Performance Table above, as compared against the following performance measures: our (1) TSR, (2) peer group TSR, (3) net income, and (4) pre-tax income. The chart reflecting our TSR and peer group TSR also provide a comparison of our TSR to the peer group TSR for the four-year period. Total shareholder return in the first chart below, in the case of both the Company and our peer group, reflects the cumulative return of $100 as if invested on September 30, 2020, including reinvestment of dividends.

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Most Important Performance Measures for 2024 1 As described in greater detail in this Proxy Statement, the Company’s