Winnebago Is a Growing Premium Outdoor Lifestyle Brand Company

Winnebago, which reinvented itself under CEO Mike Happe with the November 2016 acquisition of high-end towable maker Grand Design, sees itself as a leading outdoor lifestyle firm. It now has a marine segment with Chris-Craft and Barletta. Towables is an area the company had long wanted to grow in but had remained very small since acquiring SunnyBrook in 2011. Winnebago’s North American towables share is in the teens, up from under 2% before Grand Design, so we see a long growth runway if it can keep chipping into Thor's and Forest River's roughly 80% combined share. In fiscal 2023, towables were about 41% of total revenue compared with just 9% in fiscal 2016. Marine was about 13.5% of fiscal 2023 sales and Barletta is a top five pontoon brand. Management wants non-RV revenue to be 15%-20% of total sales.