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Vista Outdoor Inc.401(k)

VISTA OUTDOOR INC. 401(K) PLAN · ANOKA, MN · plan year 2023

Reported admin expense ratio · 2023
0.16%

Peer grade: C · admin costs + employer contributions vs same-size plans · how grading works

Vista Outdoor Inc. reported $818,429 in plan administrative expenses for 2023: 0.16% of average plan assets, higher than ~75% of peers. Employer contributions averaged $4,213 per active participant. This ratio covers administrative expenses reported on the plan's Schedule H only; fund-level expense ratios are not included in public structured data — see methodology.

Across the 3 years on file its reported administrative ratio has held roughly steady near 0.142%. The plan sits in the $250M–$1B size bracket, benchmarked here against 2,601 comparable plans and shown alongside other manufacturing employers. By assets it is the 78th-largest of 1,918 plans among Minnesota employers on file, and the 520th of 13,661 in manufacturing. In 2023, employees put in $1.47 for every $1.00 the employer contributed.

Plan summary
Net assets, end of year$567,832,500
Participants with balances6,945
Active participants5,303
Employer contributions$22,340,401
Employee contributions$32,792,546
Employer contribution per active participant$4,213
Average account balance$81,761
Benefits paid to participants$59,875,629
Plan auditUnmodified (clean) audit opinion
Plan history3
Yearassets · accounts · employer contribution
2024$529.1M · 5,327 accts · $21.7M emplr
2023$567.8M · 6,945 accts · $22.3M emplr
2022$480.4M · 7,295 accts · $22.0M emplr
The Vista Outdoor Inc. 401(k) match · 2023
Employer contribution per active participant$4,213
Median for plans this size$4,362
2024$6,140 per active participant
2023$4,213 per active participant
2022$3,832 per active participant

Vista Outdoor Inc.'s 2023 employer contribution ran below the $4,362 median for plans its size. Filings report dollars actually contributed, not the match formula; the formula itself (for example, 50% of the first 6% of pay) lives in the plan's summary plan description from HR.

What these fees cost you

Annual cost at the plan's reported 2023 administrative ratio, against the median plan its size; fund expense ratios are extra. Compare any plan.

Service providers · 20234
VANGUARD GROUP INC · Recordkeeping · Consulting$632,919
AON HEWITT INVESTMENT · Consulting$125,610
REED SMITH · Legal$59,468
GRANT THORNTON LLP · Accounting / audit$26,000

Compensation shown is direct payments from plan assets reported on Schedule C. Providers paid through fund revenue-sharing appear as indirect.

Recordkeeper by year2
2024Vanguard
2023Vanguard

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Administrative cost history3
2024$777,615 · 0.14%
2023$818,429 · 0.16%
2022$702,088 · 0.14%
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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Form 5500 series, EIN 471016855 · Verify on EFAST2 · Amounts are as reported by the plan sponsor for the plan year shown.