Big 5 Sporting Goods Corporation provided earnings guidance for the second quarter of fiscal year 2022. For the fiscal 2022 second quarter, the Company expects same store sales to decrease in the high teens compared to the record sales of the fiscal 2021 second quarter, when net sales were more than $82 million, or 34%, higher than any pre-pandemic second quarter in the Company's history. The Company's sales guidance reflects an expected same-store sales increase in the high single-digit range versus the pre-pandemic fiscal 2019 second quarter.

Fiscal 2022 second quarter earnings per diluted share are expected in the range of $0.40 to $0.50, which compares to record second quarter earnings per diluted share of $1.63 in the second quarter of fiscal 2021.