Vista Outdoor Inc. is a Delaware-incorporated outdoor recreation and shooting-sports company headquartered at 1 Vista Way, Anoka, Minnesota. It was incorporated in 2014 and spun off from Alliant Techsystems, listing on the NYSE under "VSTO." At its peak scale as a public company it reported roughly 6,400 employees, about $2.7 billion in trailing-twelve-month revenue (FY2024), and a market capitalization near $2.6 billion. It is no longer an independent public company. In November 2024 it closed the sale of The Kinetic Group — its ammunition business (Federal, CCI, Remington, Speer) — to Czechoslovak Group for roughly $2.2 billion, and the remaining outdoor-products business was spun out as Revelyst, Inc. (NYSE: "GEAR"). Funds managed by Strategic Value Partners then acquired Revelyst (enterprise value ~$1.125 billion, close expected January 2025); Revelyst Sales LLC later merged into Bushnell Holdings LLC.
Products / operations. Vista Outdoor designed, manufactured, and marketed consumer outdoor and shooting-sports products, historically across two segments and later four: The Kinetic Group (centerfire, rimfire, and shotshell ammunition and components for hunting, target shooting, personal protection, law enforcement, and military); Revelyst Outdoor Performance (Bushnell, Simms Fishing, Camp Chef, Stone Glacier, Primos, Blackhawk, Eagle); Revelyst Adventure Sports (Bell, Giro, Fox Racing, CamelBak, Blackburn, QuietKat — helmets, protective gear, hydration, e-bikes); and Revelyst Precision Sports Technology (Bushnell Golf, Foresight Sports rangefinders, launch monitors, GPS). Products sold through big-box, e-commerce, specialty, and independent retailers plus direct-to-consumer channels.
Patent-litigation posture. Vista Outdoor appears in the tracked data as a pure defendant (0 plaintiff cases, 1 defendant case) — an operating company defending against an assertion, not a litigant asserting its own portfolio. The single case sits in the Central District of California, not a notably plaintiff-friendly venue such as the Eastern District of Texas.
Notable case. BrainGuard Technologies, Inc. v. Vista Outdoor Inc. et al. (8:24-cv-02652, C.D. Cal., filed Dec. 6, 2024) named Vista Outdoor Inc., Vista Outdoor Operations LLC, Revelyst Sales LLC, and Strategic Value Partners. Plaintiff BrainGuard, characterized by Unified Patents as an "NPE (Small Company)," asserted helmet rotational-force-mitigation patents against Bell, Giro, and Fox Racing helmets. Mips AB, a supplier to Revelyst, joined the defense and reported a $3.25 million settlement in July 2026 resolving all claims.