May 19, 2016
Executives
Anne-Marie Megela - Vice President, Treasury Services, Investor Relations Ed Stack - Chief Executive Officer André Hawaux - Chief Operating Officer Teri List-Stoll - Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer
Analysts
Robbie Ohmes - Bank of America Merrill Lynch Seth Sigman - Credit Suisse Kate McShane - Citi Research Simeon Gutman - Morgan Stanley Christopher Horvers - JPMorgan Stephen Tanal - Goldman Sachs Michael Lasser - UBS Sam Poser - CRT Capital Michael Baker - Deutsche Bank Camilo Lyon - Canaccord Genuity Chris Svezia - Susquehanna Financial Patrick McKeever - MKM Partners Peter Benedict - Robert Baird Wayne Hood - BMO Capital Markets Scott Ciccarelli - RBC Capital Markets Mitch Kummetz - B. Riley Paul Swinand - Morningstar Joe Feldman - Telsey Advisory Group
Operator
Good morning and welcome to the DICK’s Sporting Goods First Quarter Earnings Conference Call. All participants will be in listen-only mode.
Should you need assistance, please signal a conference specialist by pressing the star key followed by zero. After today’s presentation, there will be an opportunity to ask questions.
[Operator Instructions]. Please note this event is being recorded.
I would now like to turn the conference over to Anne-Marie Megela, Vice President, Treasury and Investor Relations. Please go ahead.
Anne-Marie Megela
Thank you. Good morning and thank you for joining us to discuss our first quarter 2016 financial results.
On today’s call will be Ed Stack, our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer; André Hawaux, our Chief Operating Officer, and Teri List-Stoll, our Chief Financial Officer. Please note that a rebroadcast of today’s call will be archived on the Investor Relations portion of our website located at dicks.com for approximately 30 days.
In addition, as outlined in our press release, the dial-in replay will also be available for approximately 30 days. During this call, we will be making forward-looking statements which are predictions, projections and other statements about future events.
These statements are based on current expectations and assumptions that are subject to risks and uncertainties. Actual results could materially differ because of factors discussed in today’s earnings press release, in the comments made during this conference call, and in the Risk Factors section of our Form 10-K, Form 10-Q, and other reports and filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
We do not undertake any duty to update any forward-looking statement. We have also included some non-GAAP financial measures in our discussion today.
Our presentation of the most directly comparable financial measures calculated in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles and related reconciliations can be found on the Investor Relations portion of our website at dicks.com. I will now turn the call over to Ed Stack.
Ed Stack
Thank you, Anne-Marie. Good morning.
For the first quarter of 2016, we’re pleased to deliver EPS of $0.50 per share which is the high-end of our guidance. Comp store sales were plus 0.5%, the mid-point of our range and total sales increased 6.1%.
Our e-commerce business grew to 9.2% of sales in Q1 from 8.5% in the same quarter last year and sales increased 15%. We continue to be on schedule to re-launch dicks.com on our own web platform in January 2017.
We launched Golf Galaxy on this platform in March of last year and Field & Stream this past October. We’re quite pleased with these sites and their performance from both the technology and sales standpoint.
To remind everyone, once we move dicks.com to this platform in 2017, we expect our consolidated operating margins to increase approximately 30 basis points. We continue to support initiatives to increase productivity in our stores.
Two key areas of investment are footwear and our own product development. At the end of Q1, we had 52 new full-service footwear decks in place.
To date, early sales are encouraging and André will provide an update on the build-out in a moment. We’re also very focused on our product development.
We have seen an increase in this business in Q1 of this year versus Q1 of last year. Our Calia line of women’s athletic apparel remains on track to be the number three women’s athletic brand in our company by the end of the year.
And there was number three in Q1 of this year. We continue to expand our proprietary products such as Adidas Baseball, Field & Stream, Umbro Soccer, Top Flite and Maxfli in our golf area along with Quest in the outdoor area.
We expect this to be $1 billion business for us over the next few years with margin rates of 600 to 800 basis points higher than the brands they replace. During the quarter, our golf business was positive with Golf Galaxy generating comps of 1.7% and the DICK’s business performing slightly better.
The outdoor category was positive despite a decline in hunting. Our apparel business was below expectations and below last year.
Lastly, I’d like to talk about the marketplace. There is lot of activity in the sporting goods landscape right now.
The long-awaited consolidation is taking place. Over the past several months, City Sports in Boston is liquidated, Sport Chalet has announced the closing of all of their stores, the Sports Authority is in the midst of liquidating and closing their 400 plus stores and others are evaluating strategic alternatives.
Although it’s a mess, it’s a great opportunity for DICK’s Sporting Goods. This environment will likely put short-term pressure on our business.
There are over 200 stores within five miles of a DICK’s store that are closing and liquidating and over 350 stores within 10 miles of DICK’s location. Once this consolidation works its way through the system, we’re poised to pick-up significant market share.
We’re in the process of executing plans to ensure meaningful portion of this market share comes to DICK’s Sporting Goods. Although there will be some short-term pain during this process, we’re pretty excited about the long-term future of our stores and our business online.
We also have a very strong balance sheet with no long-term debt to help us through the consolidation process. Last year we generated over $640 million in cash from operations, produced approximately $730 million in EBITDA and returned over $420 million to our shareholders through share repurchases and dividends.
We also continued to invest both online in our storage brands with increasing investments from our key vendor partners such as Nike, Under Armour, Adidas and The North Face. I’d like to thank our over 30,000 associates who have worked so hard to help ensure that DICK’s is not only a survivor of this consolidation but continues to lead this industry.
Thank you to all of them. I’d now like to turn the call over to André.
André Hawaux
Thank you, Ed. As we previously discussed, one of our growth strategies is opening stores in new and under-penetrated markets.
When opening in these new markets, we see our e-commerce sales typically double. Our new stores also deliver very attractive unit economics on average generating an approximate 50% cash-on-cash return in year three.
In the first quarter we opened three new DICK’s stores with two of them in brand new markets. We also relocated three DICK’s Sporting Goods stores to more attractive retail nodes and open two new Field & Stream stores.
During the second quarter we expect to open approximately five new DICK’s stores and relocate two DICK’s stores. In total for 2016, we expect to open up approximately 36 new DICK’s stores and relocate approximately nine DICK’s stores.
We also expect to open approximately two new Golf Galaxy stores and nine new Field & Stream stores with all but one in the combo store format. As Ed mentioned, one of the ways we’re driving productivity is through our new premium full-service footwear decks and the early sales results are encouraging.
The enhanced customer experience is being supported by investments in store payroll, associate training and technology and importantly will include a broader assortment of brands and styles. At the end of the first quarter, we had 52 new full-service, new premium full-service footwear decks online.
We expect to have approximately 124 in place by the end of Q2, in time for the critical back-to-school season. The remaining 54 will be in place in time for holiday bringing our total to approximately 180 premium full-service footwear decks.
Beginning in July, these stores will have a meaningfully broader assortment not readily available at DICK’s Sporting Goods. I’ll now turn the call over to Teri to review our financial performance in greater detail.
Teri List-Stoll
Thanks André, good morning everyone. Beginning with our first quarter financial results.
Consolidated sales increased 6.1% to approximately $1.7 billion. Consolidated same store sales; which includes all banners both online and in-store increased 0.5% within our guidance of flat to up 1%.
Within this, DICK’s Sporting Goods Omni-channel same-store sales increased 0.4%, driven by a 1% increase in sales per transaction and a decline in traffic of 0.6%. Golf Galaxy Omni-channel same store sales increased 1.7% and our e-commerce business grew 15%.
Gross profit for the first quarter was $496 million or 29.86% of sales, and down 10 basis points year-over-year. Within this, merchandize margins expanded.
However, this improvement in merchandize margin was more than offset by occupancy and increase in shipping expense as a percentage of sales due to the growth of our ecommerce business. SG&A expenses were $399 million for the quarter.
This is 24% of sales de-leveraging 96 basis points from the first quarter of last year. This de-leverage was primarily driven by higher store payroll costs as we continue to invest to enhance the shopping experience within our stores, as well as higher administrative payroll and related benefit costs to support our planned future growth initiatives.
We delivered earnings per diluted share of $0.50 which is at the high-end of our guidance of between $0.48 and $0.50. Now looking to our balance sheet, we ended the first quarter with approximately $92 million of cash and cash equivalents and $158 million in borrowings outstanding on our $1 billion revolving credit facility.
This compares to $51 million outstanding at the end of the first quarter last year. The increase is a function of returning capital to our shareholders and our continued investments in our growth.
Total inventory increased 7.3% for the end of the first quarter of 2016 compared to the first quarter of 2015, slightly higher than the 6.1% sales growth in the quarter. The delta between inventory and sales growth is primarily made up of the cold weather merchandize that was packed away for the 2016 winter season.
Now turning to our first quarter capital allocation, net capital expenditures were $73 million or $89 million on a gross basis. Additionally, during the quarter we paid dividends of $17.6 million.
We also completed share repurchases of $50 million at an average price of $46.81. Since the beginning of 2013, we’ve repurchased approximately $863 million of common stock and we have approximately $1.1 billion remaining on our authorizations.
Now, turning to our outlook for the remainder of 2016. As we’ve indicated, 2016 is an important investment year for us.
First, we are continuing to invest in e-commerce as we transition to full operational control in January 2017. Second, we’re partnering with the United States’ Olympic Committee and team USA in a way that will have a far reaching impact on our brand.
And lastly as André described, we are elevating the footwear business in our stores. We estimate these strategic investments will have an approximately $50 million to $55 million impact on earnings before taxes in 2016.
Additionally, based on the expectations that TSA Sports Authority will liquidate all 400 plus stores and Sport Chalet will be closing and liquidating all of their 48 stores, together removing over 20 million of square feet from the market. Our short-term results could vary widely.
We believe TSA will be running a liquidation event through all of the second quarter and through the back-to-school portion of the third quarter. Importantly, as Ed described, we remain confident in our ability to capture the displaced market share and to strengthen our leadership position.
This current market consolidation and the strategic investments we’re making will benefit our business for many years to come. Due to liquidation pressure of Sports Authority and Sport Chalet in the near-term, for 2016, we are lowering our full-year guidance and now expect earnings per diluted share of between $2.60 and $2.90.
We expect consolidated same-store sales to be in the range of negative 1% to positive 1%. Operating margin is expected to decrease year-over-year driven by SG&A de-leverage as we make strategic investments in our business.
This will be partially offset by an expected increase in gross margin. Although painful in the short-term, we see this industry consolidation as an opportunity over the long-term.
Net capital expenditures for the full year of 2016 are expected to be approximately $230 million or about $420 million on a gross basis. 2015 net capital expenditures were $204 million or $370 million on a gross basis.
For the second quarter, we anticipate earnings per diluted share of between $0.62 and $0.72. Consolidated same-store sales are expected to be in the range of negative 4% to negative 1%.
Operating margin is expected to decrease driven by SG&A de-leverage and a slight decline in gross margin. Again, this guidance is heavily influenced by the liquidation activities taking place over the next quarter and half or so.
This will conclude our prepared comments. We appreciate your interest in DICK’s Sporting Goods.
Operator, please open the line for questions.
Operator
[Operator Instructions]. And your first question will come from Robbie Ohmes of Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
Please go ahead.
Robbie Ohmes
Thanks for taking my question. Ed, I actually had a broader question for you.
I was hoping given the outlook for the Sports Authority banner to go away and signs of pressure from other of your competitors. Could you talk maybe more generally about how the - your key vendors are thinking about DICK’s Sporting Goods and where DICK’s Sporting Goods fits in for them over, say, the next 5 to 10 years?
And could you link into that, your dot-com business versus your store growth potential over the long term? I know it’s kind of open-ended, but there is a lot going on and I think it would be helpful to all of us.
Thanks.
Ed Stack
Sure, thanks Robbie. Well, how the vendors are thinking about us is, I don’t think significantly different than they have been thinking about us which they continue to make meaningful investments in our business.
You can see the investment that we’re making in the footwear platforms and what we’re doing with Nike there. What we’re doing with Nike, Under Armour, Adidas and The North Face in our stores, we’ll continue to work with these brands very closely.
I think that they really look at us as the future and the wholesale side of their business, which will continue to be very important. And although a number of brands have, they’ve talked about what they’re doing from a DTC standpoint, they also talk about a meaningful part of their growth is going to come from the wholesale side of their business.
And we’re an important part of that wholesale side of their business. From a dot-com standpoint, we continue to think that there is, great opportunities for us to continue to grow our dot-com business.
As we move to the platform, our own platform, it will give us a lot more flexibility than we have right now. And based on what’s going in the marketplace that Teri indicated and that I’ve indicated, there will be some short-term pain but there is an awful lot of opportunity out there for us with this consolidation that everybody knew was going to come, it just wasn’t sure when.
And it all seems to be coming at relatively the same time. So it creates a big opportunity for us and we continue to work with these brands and they continue to be very helpful and invest with us.
Robbie Ohmes
And Ed should we, you aren’t acquiring anything from Sports Authority we know of so far. But should we assume that, we shouldn’t expect you to make regional acquisitions potentially in the future?
Or does this environment make it easier for you to do some regional acquisitions?
Ed Stack
Robbie I don’t think, it’s been kind of well chronicled that we’ve talked, we were at the auction for TSA and we talked about a very small group of TSA’s assets. And whether we end up doing this or not, it’s hard to say.
It’s really inconsequential with what we’re looking at from TSA. There is a small group of stores that we would love to get.
But with all that’s going on in retail today, with other retailers, Penneys, Kohl’s, Sears, Macy’s a few of them have announced store closing. There is going to be real-estate out there and some of these trade areas will get into eventually.
This is pretty inconsequential what we’re doing with TSA right now. And regional chains, I don’t see us acquiring regional chains, I mean, we’ll look at a couple of the Sport Chalet sites also, but the regional change Robbie I don’t see us being an acquirer of those.
We’ll grow organically with big part of our growth coming from the dot-com business.
Robbie Ohmes
That’s great. That’s really helpful.
Thanks, Ed.
Ed Stack
Sure, thanks Robbie.
Operator
The next question will be from Seth Sigman of Credit Suisse. Please go ahead.
Seth Sigman
Okay. Thanks a lot.
Good morning, guys. Just on the short-term, I think last time you guys reported there was some uncertainty about TSA and the state of them at that point.
Can you give us a sense of how the first quarter played out, what the impact from those first, I guess 140 liquidations were? And then what are you guys assuming in the second quarter guidance in terms of the impact from those liquidations?
Thank you.
Ed Stack
Well Seth, we knew that what was going to happen in the first quarter but they were closing and liquidating about 140 stores. And these were really - most of them, many of those were the worst performing stores as these were the ones that they were going to jet us in when there was talk about reorganizing the business.
And we’ve had access to all of their stores from a sales standpoint to what we got a lot of information about their stores through this process. And we have a sense of what impact will be in the short-term and then what some of the opportunities we could have to gain market share over there.
So, we’re pretty confident in what we’ve laid out here. And as far as, the second part of your question again?
Seth Sigman
Just what would you be assuming in the second quarter for the impact? I don’t know if there’s a way to quantify for what’s in the comp guidance?
Ed Stack
Well, if we talk about this and if we didn’t have these issues, we’d probably be looking at somewhere between minus one and flat based on what’s going on in the marketplace right now. So, there is a big part of this has got to do with the short-term liquidation.
And remember there is, over 200 Sports Authority stores that were within 5 miles of a DICK’s store and a total of 350 stores that are within 10 miles. So, this is going to have a short-term impact but it does provide us a great opportunity going forward.
Seth Sigman
Just a follow-up there, is there a thought that the impact is mostly isolated to the second and third quarter? Or do you think that there is going to be some pull-forward from these liquidations and also impact the fourth quarter?
Ed Stack
Yes, it’s going to be primarily second quarter and third quarter, really primarily around the important back-to-school season. But we do believe that there will be some pull-forward out of the fourth quarter into the, into right now through this liquidation process.
And we really expect to see the, a bigger benefit to this beginning in ‘17.
Seth Sigman
Okay, thank you. And if I could just ask a follow-up question, I think Teri talked about the store payroll cost increasing in the quarter.
Can you guys elaborate on the changes that you’re making? What’s one-time, what’s recurring, and what’s part of that $50 million to $55 million you’ve talked about?
Because I know one of the opportunities here you’ve talked about pretty clearly is to improve the store experience over time, so just curious what may be changing. Thank you.
Teri List-Stoll
So, of the $50 million to $55 million if you remember, a big portion of it is project Eagle. And then the remainder is split between full-service footwear and the marketing investments making in brand equity.
And so, if you split those apart, obviously the project Eagle, we’ve been very public about how this plays out this year and next. And then, of that remainder, particularly as it speaks to store payroll, some portion of the full-service footwear investment that’s I think we’ve kind of landed on $15 million to $16 million for that.
Some portion of that is the current year impact of installing the footwear decks etcetera and then the portion of it is store labor. Now, I’ll let André talk a little bit about the store labor portion.
André Hawaux
Yes. So I think Teri articulated the pieces that are supporting the investments we’re making in premium full-service footwear.
The other things that we have out there Seth, as well is we are enhancing our customer experience. And also what we have in some marketplaces as you know, there is a little bit of upward rate pressure that we’re also feeling as a result of various state initiatives around minimum wage.
So, I would capture them all and we’re not going to carve out what sort of those dollars are, but that’s roughly what we’re seeing in the investment in payroll.
Seth Sigman
Okay, understood. Thanks very much.
Operator
Our next question will be from Kate McShane of Citi Research. Please go ahead.
Kate McShane
Hi, thanks, good morning. And thank you for taking my question.
I just had a couple of questions, one on the impact from TSA. And I think you had mentioned before that there is some opportunity for you to buy maybe some cheaper inventory from the vendors that as a result of what’s happening in the marketplace.
Has that come to fruition and how much has that been able to offset some of the margin pressure or the expected margin pressure from the liquidations?
Ed Stack
Well, that process is really just starting to take place. Once TSA indicated that they were going to close their stores.
So we’ve gotten calls from some vendors and provided us some opportunities to buy some product off-price. I won’t go into specifically what that is.
But we do think that that will help alleviate some of the margin rate pressure. But it’s not significant.
Kate McShane
Okay, thank you. And then I think you had mentioned in your prepared comments that apparel was below your expectations.
Can you give us any detail on the breakdown between men’s versus women’s versus your expectations? And then how footwear trended versus your expectations during the quarter?
Ed Stack
Yes, so, we’re not going to get quite that granular for you Kate. But the business was a bit more difficult.
Some of the apparel came from cold weather merchandize and we still have a fair amount of that, we still have some of that in Q1, in February and March. We also have, and in the athletic piece of that you’ve got some of the issues around that with lease and all that.
But men’s was better than women’s. I will get to that point.
So the men’s business was better than the women’s business.
Kate McShane
Okay, great. And just to sneak in one last question about inventory growth, I think in the press release, it had mentioned that I it included some winter pack-away.
Are you able to tell us what the inventory growth would have been x the pack-away?
Teri List-Stoll
Substantially all of the difference between the sales growth and the inventory growth is related to that pack-away.
Kate McShane
That’s so helpful. Thank you.
Operator
The next question will be from Simeon Gutman of Morgan Stanley. Please go ahead.
Simeon Gutman
Thanks, good morning. Just a, follow-on to the TSA questions, and Ed, it’s probably early and may not have enough examples.
But so, some of the 140 that have closed, they’ve liquidated and they’ve shut down. Are you seeing any lift or retention that’s coming back into the DICK’s store, I know there is a lot of estimates out there of what transfer rates could eventually be, but curious if there is an early read on that?
Ed Stack
There is not quite yet and I’ll tell you the reason why. Those were really their smaller stores, so they would have less of an impact.
Also, we think that those liquidations just recently concluded. We think there was some pull-forward of some purchases so there hasn’t been enough time yet for us to be able to give you an indication there.
Simeon Gutman
Okay, that’s helpful. And I may have missed it in prepared remarks.
Did you or can you speak to any regionality in the business, I guess we’ve heard a story that the Northeast has been tough does weather explain variability, I guess, weather and maybe TSA would explain variability among regions but anything else to call out there?
Ed Stack
So, TSA we think is going to have an issue and we’re not talking about the weather anymore. The weather can have an impact but we’re not going to hide behind the weather.
We’re actually really pretty pleased with the environment of what we did in the first quarter posting positive comps and hitting the high-end of our expectations. So, we were relatively - we were really quite pleased with what we accomplished in the first quarter in a difficult retail environment.
Simeon Gutman
And to that the improvement in ticket, would that play out any differently than how it did in terms of the drivers of that ticket growth was that similar or different than how it played out in previous quarters.
Ed Stack
Not a lot different. We’ve had some nice growths in the AUR around the golf business which we’ve talked about that all, of the inventory that had been tied up in the system along with the suppliers and retailers is pretty much gone.
Our margin rates again in the first quarter were up in the golf business. Our footwear business was really pretty good so nothing really meaningfully different than what you would have seen in previous quarters.
Simeon Gutman
Okay, thanks a lot.
Ed Stack
Sure.
Operator
And the next question will come from Christopher Horvers of JPMorgan. Please go ahead.
Christopher Horvers
Thanks, Chris Horvers. Following up on the TSA location, so I guess, only looking at narrow subset of stores, are the locations that bad or are the lease rates just too high or do you think there is just too much money that needs to be put into the stores and wait for the landlords to take it back and you can get a better deal on the backend of it?
Because if you look at where their stores are at least from a state perspective versus where you’d like to grow, it seems to be a pretty good crossover there?
Ed Stack
There are a couple of stores we’ve looked at. But what you’ve got to do, you have to take the TSA lease as it is.
You’ve got to pay the cure cost which is really the rent the TSA may not have paid. And we’ve taken a look at some of this and we’ve got a very small number of stores that we’re interested in.
Some of the reports are relatively accurate for the number of stores we’re looking at. But it’s really inconsequential to our growth plan.
And as I said, with all the retail consolidation going on and store closing across retail, we don’t feel compelled that we have to take any particular deal that there will be other opportunities in those trade areas. So if we can make the deal that we’re comfortable with, we’ll make the deal but we’re not stretching by any stretch of the imagination to do a deal.
Christopher Horvers
Understood, so it’s not the locations might be fine. So how does that make you think about the potential share capture given the close proximity and the growth of the overall online business in this category?
Should we think by your overall market share as the right guide in terms of how much share you capture from TSA?
Ed Stack
Well, we’re taking a look at this. So from a market share standpoint and markets where we are, like we said, they’ve got 200 stores that are within 5 miles of the DICK’s store.
We’ll take up an awful lot of that market share. There is, 350 stores between TSA and Sport Chalet that are within 10 miles of the DICK’s store.
We’ll pick up a fair amount of market share there. Some of the stores that they’re closing in markets where we don’t have a store, in some of the five Burroughs in New York City or Alaska, Hawaii, which we’re really not interested in, obviously we’re not going to pick up any share.
So, I would look at, we’re going to pick up share in markets that we do business with and we compete with them and I think a significant amount. And our online business we think will grow also because of the share that we can pick-up from TSA.
Christopher Horvers
Understood. And then last question is, as you think about the second quarter guidance in particular, I guess, how much gross margin headwind are you baking in for TSA and is it potential mark-down risk or is it more your need to step-up voice as they announce all the liquidation sales loudly?
Thank you.
Ed Stack
Well, it’s going to be - there, is going to be some customers who are going to go shop, who might shop with us normally that based on the liquidation they’re going to go take a look and see what Sports Authority has. So I think it’s going to impact our sales which you saw in our sales guidance.
When that impacts our sales, it’s going to make it some of the expenses de-leverages we talked about. But we are not going to go chase the mark-down dollars with Sports Authority.
So when they’re running x amount of product at 25%, 30%, 40% off, it’s going to be, we’re not going to go chase that. We don’t think that’s the right thing for our brand to do long-term.
And we’re really looking at this as some short-term pain, which we’re willing to endure for the long-term benefit of our company and our shareholders.
Christopher Horvers
Understood, thank you.
Ed Stack
Sure.
Operator
The next question will come from Stephen Tanal of Goldman Sachs. Please go ahead.
Stephen Tanal
Thanks, good morning guys.
Ed Stack
Good morning.
Stephen Tanal
Ed could you maybe, it sounded like you guys are very good - have very good sense of the TSA impacts. But I didn’t think you sized the impact you thought you saw in 1Q on the comp.
Are you able to share that level of color?
Ed Stack
I’m sorry, I’m not really sure I understand the question.
Stephen Tanal
Just like if you said okay, TSA did x basis points to the comp in 1Q like it would have comp x otherwise, something like that to help us sort of think about the magnitude of the impact there?
Ed Stack
Yes, it’s pretty tough to say. And again, these were relatively small stores.
So we don’t think it had a real big impact on our business in Q1, probably a little bit. But again, from what we’ve seen these are their smaller volume stores, these are the stores that if they had reorganized they wanted to jet us in out of the fleet.
So they weren’t stores that were performing very well for them and therefore they didn’t have a meaningful impact on us.
Stephen Tanal
Understood. And as we think about stores you may acquire, how long does it typically take you to retrofit a store, more specifically of course Sports Authority to a DICK’s?
Ed Stack
Yes, so it depends on the level of retrofit that we would want to do. But we can have it done in a matter of four or five months.
Stephen Tanal
Got it, okay. And then just lastly, I mean, obviously the auction is done, there is, some information out there.
Now, you didn’t comment on kind of the outcomes. Do you have a sense for when you may or is there something specific waiting perhaps the sale hearings next week?
Ed Stack
Yes, we’ll see how it goes. We are yet to reach an agreement.
We’ve made in other words some things in the press that were relatively accurate of what we’ve been talking about. But we haven’t reached an agreement.
And quite frankly, we may not. And as I said, these sites are interesting sites that we would take if we can get them at the right economics.
But they’re really inconsequential, they’re not - it’s not very significant to our growth plan. And as we’ve looked at this with all the other real-estate that’s coming online from some other retailers closing stores, we’re confident we’ll get sites in those trade areas eventually.
And we think this is a time to be very patient out in the marketplace. So, we’re not in any rush.
Stephen Tanal
Understood. Okay, thanks.
Operator
The next question will be from Michael Lasser of UBS. Please go ahead.
Michael Lasser
Good morning, thanks a lot for taking my question. Ed, so it seems like you’ve baked in significant impact from the TSA liquidations in the second quarter.
But it seems like you also are not baking in virtually any impact of market share gains in the second half of the year to get to the midpoint of the guidance, we have to assume that your comps are flattish maybe slightly positive, slightly negative in the second half. So, what was the thought process behind only baking in the downside and not the upside?
Ed Stack
Well, there is, a couple of things. So, we think that TSA from where we stand, they will liquidate through June, July and August, it may go longer, we don’t know.
But even if it goes into August, that goes into an important part of the back-to-school selling season in the third quarter. And we feel that there will be business that will be moved from the third quarter, fourth quarter into these other quarters and people will do some buying upfront.
And we’re just, we just think that there is a possibility that the market could just be tired by the time we get into the, towards the end of the year. And we really feel that there will be an upside to the beginning in ‘17, there may be some upside at the back half of the year which we talked about on the previous quarter call.
But we do think that the market could be a little weary of sporting goods promotions as TSA and Sport Chalet liquidate 20 million square feet of sporting goods, that’s a lot.
Michael Lasser
But is it fair to say that you really haven’t baked any share gains from those liquidations in that 20 million square feet into the second half of the year outlook. Is that right?
Ed Stack
That would be accurate, yes.
Michael Lasser
And then secondly, Ed, obviously the margin of the business has been volatile over the last year and it seems like you’re on a precipitous of a lot of margin enhancing opportunities whether the e-com business coming back in-house, the share gains. How much are you going to let fall to the bottom-line as we look towards next year and how much are you just going to flow back into the business because that’s the way you think is the right thing to do?
Ed Stack
As we get further into taking a look at what we’re going to do for next year, we’ll make those decisions. But we do think as we said from an e-commerce standpoint, we think that will increase our margin rates 30 basis points as we move to our own platform.
So, we’ll take a look at that. The meaningful amount of investments, that we need to make in our business are being made through ‘16.
And we expect that project Eagle or the e-commerce business will that will slow going into ‘17. We’re making a very big bet on the footwear side of the business with construction costs and build-out cost here in ‘16.
We don’t expect that to accelerate. We’re going to have approximately 175 or 180 of these stores done by the end of this year.
We’ll read that and see where that goes. And if there is another group of stores we want to do in ‘17, I suspect it will probably be towards the back half of ‘17 or beginning of ‘18 if we do that.
But a lot of the investments are being made. And we said upfront earlier this year and in ‘15, we telegraphed that ‘16 would be an investment year.
And we expect those to slow in ‘17.
Michael Lasser
Let me ask you this way, as recently as 2014 you had 8% to 9% operating margin. Is it realistic to expect as you move through this transition period where you’re loading some investments.
And once you get past it, you’ll be able to get back to the 8% to 9% operating margin that you had as recently as two years ago?
Ed Stack
Let us get through the balance of these next couple of quarters and let’s see what happens with TSA, what kind of market share we can pick up and give us towards the end of the year to give you more guidance on that question. It’s a fair question, we’re just not ready to provide guidance for that right now.
Michael Lasser
Okay. Thank you so much.
Ed Stack
Sure.
Operator
The next question will be from Sam Poser of CRT Capital. Please go ahead.
Sam Poser
Thank you for taking my question. There was some information out the other day regarding Sports Authority and I’m not sure about Sport Chalet but there really, since they have a lot of stores, but there wasn’t that much inventory, it sounded like there was like only about $400 million worth of inventory.
So, I mean, yes, there are a lot of stores but it sounds like a lot of the retailers stopped a lot of brands, stopped shipping these retailers fairly recently. So, this liquidation may not be as down, I mean, what is your thought there?
Are my numbers wrong based on what you know? Because this impact may not be quite as big as you’re leading on to it, if those numbers are right?
Ed Stack
Well, Sam, if you think about this, that’s $400 million at cost, not at retail. So, it’s a much bigger number at retail.
And I’m sure you know, as they go through these liquidations, the liquidators have the opportunity to augment that inventory with buys or things that they have from previous liquidations. So, I think it’s pretty significant.
And it is $400 million at cost, whatever that number translates to at retail in a very short period of time.
Sam Poser
Right, right. And then, thank you.
And then, as far as both the geographies of where you might be interested, there are some locations in South Florida that from what I’ve heard were very good Sports Authority stores. And then in Southern California, which is basically going to be vacated of sporting goods.
Are those the general vicinities of where your, I guess the 20 to 30 stores you might be interested in are located?
Ed Stack
Well, we think it’s - we’re not going to give you that level of granularity right now. But the stores that we’ve looked at, we would be pleased to take those if the economics are right.
As we’ve done a survey of the areas, we know that with some of the other closings that have been announced or other closings that may come, we’re not concerned. One thing we all know is there is plenty of real-estate around for retailers.
And we don’t feel compelled or we don’t feel any pressure to go and make these deals at the present time. If we can get them under the right economics, we’ll do it.
And if we don’t, we’re good walking away.
Sam Poser
Thank you. And then, one last thing, Sports Authority, said to do about $2.5 billion worth of sales annually.
Without really thinking about any store pick-ups, I mean, with the 350 stores within 10 miles, I mean, how much of that business do you think sort of will, sort of naturally with some I guess marketing from you but over time sort of go your way? I mean, when you think about it let’s say over the next few years?
Ed Stack
You know what, I’m not going to go on a limb and put that number up, I appreciate the question, and nice try. But as we kind of go through this, we’ll give you guys some sense, you’ll see what our sales are.
We think we have an opportunity to pick-up meaningful market share. But we’re not going to go out on public and say what we think that is right now.
We don’t think that would be appropriate.
Sam Poser
Do you think we’d know that by let’s say the end of the third quarter once sort of the dust is settled with liquidations and you’ve seen a little bit or do you think this is more of an end-of-the-year situation?
Ed Stack
I think this is more end-of-the-year. And as I indicated, I think we’ll start to see that more impact beginning in ‘17.
Sports Authority’s liquidation is going to go through this Father’s Day period, it’s going to go through a very big virtually all of the back-to-school selling period. And I think at that point the market is going to be a little tired and some businesses have been pulled forward.
And I think we’ll start to see the positive impact of this in ‘17. Could there be some positive impact in the fourth quarter?
Yes. And if there is, we’ll let you know.
But the way we’re looking at this right now is, it’s going to be beginning in ‘17.
Sam Poser
Thank you very much.
Ed Stack
Sure, sure.
Operator
The next question will be from Michael Baker of Deutsche Bank. Please go ahead.
Michael Baker
Thanks. A couple, one - how does the Sports Authority going away change your long-term store-count plan?
Have you gone back and reassessed what you may have thought in terms of a real estate plan as you said, there were markets where you don’t exist and where they did. Do you now plan on putting more stores in those types of areas?
Ed Stack
I don’t think that has really changed. I think we can do, if we were looking at putting a store in trade areas, because we always felt very comfortable competing with Sports Authority.
So, many of you know we’ve got a store within a couple of miles or right across the street from a Sports Authority. And those stores have always performed quite well.
Our view would be that the stores that we would put in those trade areas will have a higher sales volume. We don’t necessarily need more stores.
Michael Baker
Okay, helpful. A couple more if I could.
You had said earlier in the call you do have plans in place to drive your share during this time. I mean, are those plans above and beyond the footwear deck and the Olympic branding and other things like that?
Ed Stack
Yes, we’ll take a look at some marketing increasing, marketing in some local areas where we feel that we’ve got the opportunity to take some significant market share. And we’re working through this.
But it’s all baked into the guidance that you’ve seen.
Michael Baker
Okay, that was the important point. Lastly, unrelated to Sports Authority, the apparel weakness I know we’re not talking about weather, so but is it more indicative of the overall consumer environment?
Or do you think there were any share issues? We know that Amazon is getting more aggressive in the apparel space.
I was just wondering if you could sort of help us with why apparel was weak, if not the weather.
Ed Stack
Well, I think we’re coming off some pretty good apparel numbers over the last several years. We’ve been really aggressive there.
I don’t think that it is a share issue. I think that that business has been really - has been very good for us.
We’re not going to hide behind the weather. But we continue to invest in our apparel business and think it will continue to be an important part of our business and a very profitable part of our business.
Michael Baker
Okay, understood. Thank you very much.
Operator
Your next question will be from Camilo Lyon of Canaccord Genuity. Please go ahead.
Camilo Lyon
Thanks. Ed, last quarter you talked about investing in attracting TSA customers in those initial 140 store areas.
Can you just talk about the success you’ve had in attracting them to your stores? And have you begun marketing to them already in the remaining trade areas?
Ed Stack
Well, we’re starting to. And we looked at not only some of the, those markets were waiting to get through the liquidation process and then we would start that.
And they’ve liquidated they’re pretty much done with those 140 stores. Again, they were the smaller volume stores that didn’t have as big of an impact on us.
But yes, we’re starting to market to those and we think that there will be a positive impact.
Camilo Lyon
Have you seen the up-tick in the rewards member sign-ups? I think that’s what you’ve been using to try and attract them to your stores.
Ed Stack
Well, we don’t have their customer list, we just continue to try to market and try to bring people to shop in our store and try to sign them up when we get them here.
Camilo Lyon
Okay. Since you are one of the very few retailers left that will continue to open large stores, have you already begun to see the benefits of lower rent costs in your current discussions with landlords, irrespective of any stores you may take over the next few months from the TSA?
So are current rent discussions becoming more favorable?
Ed Stack
I don’t think it’s gotten any better or any worse than it has been. And I think that as some other retailers close stores that they’ve announced that they’re going to close, there is, a number of those that we would have an interest in.
And again, we don’t want to fuel this, we’re not compelled to open stores or accelerate our store program we’re very comfortable with what we’re doing. And our view is if we can get the right economics, we’re very, disciplined from a real-estate standpoint.
And if we can get the right economics we’ll do the deal. If we can’t get the right economics, we walk away from the deal and believe me we’ve walked away from plenty of deals where we didn’t feel the economics were right.
And many times, they let it sit for a few months, sometimes six months, sometimes a year to come back and make your right deal. So we’re very, disciplined and we’re very patient.
Camilo Lyon
Would you say that the economics have become more favorable in the last three-month period, given that TSA is completely going away, and before, there was an option that they may have stuck around in a smaller form?
Ed Stack
I don’t think landlords are really thinking of Sports Authority. We’re starting to build some stores from the ground-up again some centers are being added on to or built.
And I don’t think anybody was looking at Sports Authority as a viable tenant. So they really weren’t playing in the game.
So they didn’t have much to do with real-estate rental prices.
Camilo Lyon
Okay, and then just shifting gears, you mentioned on the full-service footwear decks that you would be getting new product that you hadn’t gotten before in the big stores. Can you just talk about what that product consists of and then any comments you might have on your brand Jordan stores, how those are performing?
Ed Stack
What we can tell you, I will tell you we’ll be investing in some additional brand Jordan shops. We love those shops.
And as far as what we’re doing with footwear, we’re relatively happy with what’s going on there.
Camilo Lyon
But can you talk about the categories that you’re getting more allocations from that you weren’t before?
Ed Stack
Well, we’re getting, again, some of the better selling shoes that you would have seen in the marketplace that we didn’t have access to. So if you walk into our store today, the premium full-service footwear areas you see, you’ll see Nike Roche shoes, you’ll see some of the key Adidas shoes, you’ll see Steph Curry, you’ll see some shoes that you didn’t find, that weren’t as readily available in our stores in the past, you’ll see those in these full-service footwear decks.
Camilo Lyon
Got it, all the best. Thanks.
Ed Stack
Thank you.
Operator
The next question will be from Chris Svezia of Susquehanna Financial. Please go ahead.
Chris Svezia
Good morning, everyone. Thanks for taking my questions.
I guess, Ed, for you, just to go back on the footwear for a moment. Is it fair to say that footwear out-comped the corporate average of 0.5 in the quarter?
Ed Stack
We’re not going to give you that level, get too granular with that. But the answer would be yes.
Chris Svezia
Okay, all right, thank you. And then I’m curious, when you step back and think about the market-share opportunities, and within 200 stores, five-mile radius, what are some of the I guess inhibitors from you obtaining significant market share whether that consumer goes to another broad, hard-lines retailer or mass merchandiser or goes online.
Just maybe how do you think about the ability to retain as much as possible of that market share that becomes available?
Ed Stack
Actually there are some things that we have to do from an execution standpoint. So, we have to plan for that market share so that we have the products in stock and that product which is going to require some, to make sure that we’ve got the right inventory there.
We’re going to need to make sure that and André is doing this with the store operations group, he and George Hill. We need to make sure that we provide the customer with terrific service and we’ve got people on the floor to help them.
We need to make sure that they have a great experience which comes from having what they want, having it in the size that they want and helping provide them to make an informed decision of the right product for them. So, there is, a number of things that we need to do that we are in the process of doing.
We also need to take a look and try to market to those people to come and shop with us because I believe where they shop next, if they were a Sports Authority shop or and they did $2.5 billion in sales roughly. So they had some shoppers.
Our firm belief is that where those shoppers shop next is going to be where they primarily shop for their products that we sell. So we’re going to work very hard to market to them to have them come and shop with us.
Chris Svezia
And that’s what you said I think earlier, that is factored into your thought process for 2016, correct?
Ed Stack
Yes.
Chris Svezia
Yes, but nice to see it comping. Any thoughts about sustainability, what’s going on in the industry from a pricing and inventory management perspective, just any additional color?
It’s nice to see at least a positive comp out of that.
Ed Stack
Yes, so if it has been a positive comp, some brands came out with some really great product that captured the imagination of the golfer. Taylor Made with the M1 and the M2, Callaway with the Great Big Bertha, there has been some new shoe designs out from FootJoy, they’ve done a really great job over the last several years.
So, there is been some good products out there. The golf apparel business, there are some great apparel out there that’s been helpful.
And the pipeline of inventory is in pretty good shape. And we’ve indicated that over the next couple of quarters as our margin rates are up.
And we started to see somewhat influenced by the weather in a positive way that rounds are actually up. So that’s helpful to the golf business.
Chris Svezia
Okay, thank you very much. Good to hear.
All the best.
Ed Stack
Thank you.
Operator
The next question will be from Patrick McKeever of MKM Partners. Please go ahead.
Patrick McKeever
Thanks very much. Just also on the footwear, the new footwear decks, and I saw one of them recently, they look fantastic.
I was just wondering if you could share any kind of numbers on the impact to same-store sales and footwear, maybe the economics. I know it’s early, but the economics?
And then what might be the hurdle rate be from a return standpoint for you to go forward and move beyond the 175 to 180 stores that are planned for this year?
Ed Stack
Well, so, as you can imagine, we’re not going to get too granular on this for competitive reasons and for some other reasons. But I will tell you that they are - once we get through the construction process they’re performing better than the balance of the chain from a comp standpoint.
So they’re having the desired effect of being positive to our footwear business. And from an IRR standpoint, we’re not going to let you know what that is but you can imagine if we continue to go forward with these that there are meetings or hurdle rate that we put in place.
Patrick McKeever
Okay, sounds good. And then on the hunting business, maybe a little - you mentioned that it was soft in the quarter.
I’m just wondering if you could give us a little additional color, better or worse than fourth quarter, just thoughts on the current environment.
Ed Stack
Well, the hunt business has been difficult. And some of the things that are driving that business were not as invested in, the handgun business some of that, we just don’t, we sell those in some stores, we don’t sell them in all stores.
But we suspect the hunt business is going to continue to be challenged for a little bit here. We’re not looking at that to get a whole lot better.
Although I will tell you that our hunt business in Q1 was a bit better than it was in Q4.
Patrick McKeever
Good stuff. Okay, thank you, Ed.
Ed Stack
Sure.
Operator
Our next question will be from Peter Benedict of Robert Baird. Please go ahead.
Peter Benedict
Hi guys, thanks for taking the question. Just the $0.10 to $0.15 cut on the earnings plan, can you give us a sense, it sounds like - it’s spread across the balance of the year, 2Q, 3Q, 4Q, obviously more in Q2.
Can you give us a sense of maybe how that buckets out across the quarters?
Ed Stack
We’ve never really provided guidance outside of the quarter or the year that we’ve been in. So, we’re not going to get that granular with you on it.
We do feel that as we’ve said, this liquidation is going to have an impact on Q2, it will have an impact on Q3 because it will go through the all-important back-to-school timeframe of the third quarter. And we think there will be some pull-forward out of the fourth quarter into the second quarter or third quarter.
And the market is just going to be tired from a sporting goods standpoint going in the fourth quarter. Now we might have some upside from that.
We haven’t baked that in. And we think the benefit of this consolidation that the industry is going through will see the benefit of that in ‘17.
Peter Benedict
Okay, thanks, it sounds like a reasonable approach. Just the other would be just on this overtime rule change that’s coming into effect.
Any early thoughts, considerations on that and how that might impact the way you guys manage payroll, etcetera? Thank you.
André Hawaux
As you know, those REGs just came down the other day. And I think what we’re doing right now is we’re assessing the impact.
We don’t see it as a material impact in either 2016 or 2017 as we go forward. So, it is something we’re going through as I said the REGs just got published the other day.
And we’re going through that. But we don’t see that as a meaningful cost increase year-over-year.
Peter Benedict
Okay. Great.
Thanks guys.
Operator
The next question will be from Wayne Hood of BMO Capital. Please go ahead.
Wayne Hood
Yes, I just had two questions actually. Separately from looking at a small subset of TSA stores you might buy, why wouldn’t you put forth a proposal to buy TSA’s customer loyalty list that they developed since 2012?
And then I had a follow-up.
Ed Stack
We haven’t given any granularity into what would be offered is on the table. So, I haven’t said we have done that, haven’t said we haven’t done that.
Wayne Hood
Do you think, putting aside whether you did or didn’t, is that a list that you would view as something that you would want to get, because of, stating the obvious, right, it’s a list that you can deep dive into?
Ed Stack
So, could we? Sure.
There is, other ways to get lists like that also. So, list of names is not, we’re not that concerned about the list of names.
If the real-estate sites are good sites and we can get the economics, we’d be happy to do that. But list of names is interesting but we can get names very easily and we’re starting to target some of those customers through other lists that we buy.
And we think we might be able to buy them cheaper than we can buy from TSA.
Wayne Hood
Okay, my final question is, just when you look at the market share data by line of business at TSA, recognizing they don’t index anywhere, but would you say that like footwear would be the greatest opportunity for you? Or as you look at categories where they might be over-indexing, whether you would say that’s our biggest opportunity where would that be?
Thank you.
Ed Stack
So, it would only be kind of our sense because the data that we got from them was not at that level of detail by category of business. But we do think that they had a relatively good footwear business.
And we think footwear is an opportunity for us to gain some market share as is their apparel business and their team sports business. They had exited some of the other businesses or really scaled them back such as the Hunt Fish Camp business and some other hard lines, ancillary hard lines of businesses.
But I would say footwear and apparel is the key area that we’re looking at that will be the biggest market share opportunity for us.
Wayne Hood
All right. Thank you, Ed.
Operator
The next question will come from Scott Ciccarelli of RBC Capital Markets. Please go ahead.
Scott Ciccarelli
Good morning, guys. Ed, I have a bigger question for you, or bigger picture question, rather.
But what do you think the biggest challenges are for your industry? You have TSA and Sport Chalet essentially going away, DICK’s Sporting Goods as the leader of the industry, essentially flat comps, even without TSA if we kind of look at the first half.
Do you think it’s an over-stored market, is it a combination of just various pockets of softness in different categories, slower levels of innovation on the part of vendors, channel cannibalization from e-commerce? Just what’s your view and color on that?
Ed Stack
I think there is, a number of things. I think the industry has definitely been over-stored.
We’re making some big strides with this right now with over 20 million square feet coming out of the marketplace. I think that some of these other companies didn’t have the relationships with the vendors that we do.
When you walk into the stores you can see that with the investment that we’ve made in conjunction with Nike and Under Armour and TNF. So, that was a big part of this.
And then I think one of the smartest things that we did versus some others is that we have no debt and a number of these retailers had a significant amount of debt when business gets softer it gets difficult. So we know the debt that TSA had, we know that whatever Vertis had, they had.
But we’re debt-free. We can light through these difficult times much easier than some of these other retailers did.
Scott Ciccarelli
That’s very helpful, and then how do you think about the increasing penetration rates we’re seeing in your category from e-commerce?
Ed Stack
Yes, we really look at that as an opportunity that’s why we’re making the investment so we’re making in project Eagle. You can see that our e-commerce business continues to grow at a pretty rapid rate.
We’re going to continue to make these investments. And we look at that as an opportunity.
And you’ll start to see more from us on the e-commerce side as we try to build-out not only the DICK’s e-commerce business but also what we’re going to be doing with Golf Galaxy, and with Field & Stream. So, a number of retailers and analysts look at this as a problem for retailers like us.
But we look at it as a real opportunity and you’ll see as we continue to make these investments, our business will continue to grow in this area.
Scott Ciccarelli
Very helpful. Thank you.
Ed Stack
Sure.
Operator
The next question will be from Mitch Kummetz of B. Riley.
Please go ahead.
Mitch Kummetz
Yes, thanks. Two questions, one, could you talk a little bit about your pricing strategy relative to the TSA liquidations?
To what extent are you guys going to do some price matching so that you don’t lose more volume? And how does that kind of flow through the gross margin line?
And I have a follow-up.
Ed Stack
Sure. We’re not going to go chase the liquidation pricing.
So they’re going to take pricing at 20% to 30% off then they’re going to go 40% to 50% off and we’re not going to go chase that. As those liquidations get to be pretty aggressive, we’re not going to go chase that.
We’ll bide our time, we’ll be patient and we don’t think it’s the right thing to do for our brand. And we’ll be patient and let them get through this liquidation over the next quarter and half.
And then beginning in ‘17 I think we’ve got an opportunity to take significant market share when these guys - when this 20 million square feet of sporting goods retail is gone.
Mitch Kummetz
And then secondly, how do you holistically think about a market, a trade region like California, where you are obviously under-penetrated? You’ve talked about wanting to expand there.
A lot of stores are going away between TSA and Sport Chalet, and I get it that you guys are very measured and deliberate in terms of how you open stores. But is there any sort of increased urgency to do something there to maybe preempt some of your vendors from exploring other distribution opportunities, like maybe an Under Armour kind of exploring selling to Kohl’s or something like that, just as they think about how they make up for lost volume?
Ed Stack
There is not. The one thing that we’ve always talked about here is you can’t fix bad real-estate.
And we’re very, disciplined and we think a lot of this market share is going to come to us. So our business with Under Armour, we expect to go up, our business with Nike, we expect to go up, the same with North Face, Adidas Taylor Made.
We expect to increase our business with these guys. And we will not take bad real estate we will not take real-estate at economics that don’t fit our model because you live with that for 10 years, you can’t fix bad real estate.
You can make a bad buy from a merchandizing standpoint and you can market down and you can do whatever you need to do with it to get it out of the system. Bad real estate, you got it for 10 years.
Mitch Kummetz
Got it, all right. Thanks, good luck.
Ed Stack
Thank you.
Operator
The next question will come from Paul Swinand of Morningstar. Please go ahead.
Paul Swinand
Good morning and thanks for taking all the questions, as always. I wanted to ask a question on the - you mentioned the other stores, TSA, some of the people in trouble, don’t have the relationships with the national brands with the big vendors.
Could you say how much more of a lead you had with the top 5 or 10 national brands? In other words, was it 20% of it, I think they were dwindling from 10% to 5% of the business?
Ed Stack
I don’t know what that is. All I know is that we’ve really made strategic initiative years ago to partner with these brands.
You walk into our store and you see the significant Nike presence, the significant Under Armour presence. What we’re doing with The North Face.
And I think that really resonated with the consumer and helped move market share to us and it’s pretty, it’s clear that we’re the winners in this race between us and Sports Authority and Sport Chalet. And we’re very happy of the position we’re in right now.
Paul Swinand
Okay. Let me maybe come at it a different way.
There are many regional players out there. I know you don’t put your national market share that high, low double-digit, I think.
Of the regional players or some of the other players in the outdoor space that are maybe national, are there significant weaknesses in those national brand representations? And I guess where I’m going is how much further consolidation do you see in the next 5, 10 years?
Ed Stack
I think there will be more consolidation. Do we see weaknesses in some of these other competitors?
Sure. I don’t think it would be appropriate for me to call it out here.
But yes, I think there is. And I think there will be more consolidation going forward.
Paul Swinand
Okay, great. Thanks and best of luck.
Ed Stack
Thank you.
Operator
And your next question will be from Joe Feldman of Telsey Advisory Group. Please go ahead.
Joe Feldman
Yes, hi guys, Thanks for taking the question. Most of mine have been answered, but I did want to follow-up on something, just sort of the blending between stores and e-commerce.
And I understand your comments earlier, makes a lot of sense to me. You open a store in a new market it helps drive e-commerce sales.
That being said, have you guys thought about what the right balance is over a longer-term basis? I know that you have the long-term store potential, but that has been done in the prior years.
And have you given any new thoughts to what the right number of stores might be relative to e-commerce? I mean, obviously, e-commerce is growing at a nice clip for you guys and increasing penetration quickly.
So, I’ll leave it there.
Ed Stack
Well, we think about that all the time. And that’s why we are so disciplined from a real estate standpoint.
We really do believe that a balance between stores and e-commerce is the right balance, where that balance is. We’re like everybody else in this industry, trying to figure out where that is.
But that’s why we’re going slowly, that’s why we’re very, disciplined from a real-estate standpoint. And that’s why the reports that you saw, we didn’t buy a lot of, we didn’t make an offer a lot of TSA stores.
And that’s why you hear me talking throughout this call, when we talk about TSA, that the stores that we’re interested in are really inconsequential towards our plan. There is some good real-estate that we would like to, that we would be happy to take if the economics are right.
We don’t feel any pressure or any hurry to get those deals done. We don’t feel any pressure or any hurry to take this real-estate from Sports Authority because what’s going on in the marketplace, there will be other real-estate available.
So we’re exercising our patience. We’re being very diligent in our real-estate process.
And as we go on, we’ll understand where that balance is. And we feel right now we’re in a pretty good spot.
And remember, our leases are for the most part only 10 years in duration. And I forget, I don’t have right off the top of my head but we’ve got a number of stores that are coming up for renewal, next year, the year after that, the year after that.
So, over a period of three to five years, we have the ability to not renew or renew at lower rates, stores that we have right now. So, we’ve got a lot of flexibility in our business.
And this is one of the things that I don’t think The Street understands is how much flexibility we’ve got in our real-estate strategy.
André Hawaux
So, just for the audience, it’s about a quarter of our DICK’s fleet comes up over the next couple of years and about 50% plus of our Golf Galaxy fleet comes up in the next couple of years. So, to Ed’s point we have a lot of flexibility as these leases come up for renewal whether to stay in a market or to exit the market.
Joe Feldman
That’s really helpful guys. Thank you and good luck with this quarter.
Ed Stack
Great. Thank you.
Operator
And ladies and gentlemen that will conclude our question-and-answer session. I would like to hand the conference back over to Ed Stack for his closing comments.
Ed Stack
I’d like to thank everyone for joining us on our quarterly call. And we’ll look forward to talking to everybody at the end of the next quarter.
Thank you.
Operator
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