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SEC Comment Letter 0000000000-24-009991 to FOOT LOCKER, INC. (FL) (CIK 0000850209)

FOOT LOCKER, INC. (FL) (CIK 0000850209)
Date: Sept. 4, 2024 · CIK: 0000850209 · Accession: 0000000000-24-009991

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File numbers found in text: 001-10299

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September 4, 2024
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September 4, 2024 Michael Baughn Chief Financial Officer Foot Locker, Inc. 330 West 34th Street New York, NY 10001 Re:Foot Locker, Inc. Form 10-K for Fiscal Year Ended February 3, 2024 File No. 001-10299 Dear Michael Baughn: We have limited our review of your filing to the financial statements and related disclosures and have the following comment(s). Please respond to this letter within ten business days by providing the requested information or advise us as soon as possible when you will respond. If you do not believe a comment applies to your facts and circumstances, please tell us why in your response. After reviewing your response to this letter, we may have additional comments. Form 10-K for Fiscal Year Ended February 3, 2024 Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations Return on Invested Capital, page 24 1.This measure is calculated using adjusted return after taxes. Accordingly, please revise the description of this measure to present what it represents as it is confusingly similar to a measure calculated with GAAP amounts. Refer to Item 10(e)(1)(ii)(e) of Regulation S-K and Question 100.05 of our Compliance and Disclosure Interpretations on Non-GAAP Financial Measures. Additionally, it appears the comparable measure to this non-GAAP measure is return on invested capital using GAAP amounts rather than return on assets as currently presented. Please revise your presentation as appropriate.

September 4, 2024 Page 2 Segment Reporting and Results of Operations Sales, page 25 2.You cite various factors to explain changes in your results but have not quantified their impact, most notably for sales and gross margin rate. Please quantify cited factors so investors may better understand their relative impact. In particular, you disclose you closed a total of 283 combined owned/licensed stores, which amounts to over 10% of your total number of combined stores at year end, without quantifying the impact. Refer to the introductory paragraph of Item 303(b) of Regulation S-K and (b)(2)(i) therein, and section III.D of Release No. 33-6835 (501.04 of our Codification of Financial Reporting Policies) for guidance. Liquidity and Capital Resources Operating Activities, page 30 3.Please provide in your annual and interim period filings a more fulsome and quantitative analysis of the factors that caused the reported amount of net cash of operating activities to change from period to period. For example, discuss underlying factors associated with each component of working capital cited. Also note that references to results and noncash items may not provide a sufficient basis to understand how operating cash actually was affected between periods. Refer to the introductory paragraph of Item 303(b) of Regulation S-K and the introductory paragraph of section IV.B and all of section B.1 of Release No. 33-8350 for guidance. Quantify factors cited, pursuant to section III.D of Release No. 33-6835 (501.04 of the staff’s Codification of Financial Reporting). Free Cash Flow (non-GAAP measure), page 31 4.Please disclose a reconciliation of this measure to the comparable GAAP measure "net cash providing by operating activities." Refer to Item 10(e)(1)(i)(B) of Regulation S-K. In closing, we remind you that the company and its management are responsible for the accuracy and adequacy of their disclosures, notwithstanding any review, comments, action or absence of action by the staff. Please contact Robert Shapiro at 202-551-3273 or Doug Jones at 202-551-3309 with any questions. Sincerely, Division of Corporation Finance Office of Trade & Services

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September 4, 2024
Michael Baughn
Chief Financial Officer
Foot Locker, Inc.
330 West 34th Street
New York, NY 10001
Re:Foot Locker, Inc.
Form 10-K for Fiscal Year Ended February 3, 2024
File No. 001-10299
Dear Michael Baughn:
            We have limited our review of your filing to the financial statements and related
disclosures and have the following comment(s).
            Please respond to this letter within ten business days by providing the requested
information or advise us as soon as possible when you will respond. If you do not believe a
comment applies to your facts and circumstances, please tell us why in your response.
            After reviewing your response to this letter, we may have additional comments.
Form 10-K for Fiscal Year Ended February 3, 2024
Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations
Return on Invested Capital, page 24
1.This measure is calculated using adjusted return after taxes. Accordingly, please revise the
description of this measure to present what it represents as it is confusingly similar to a
measure calculated with GAAP amounts. Refer to Item 10(e)(1)(ii)(e) of Regulation S-K
and Question 100.05 of our Compliance and Disclosure Interpretations on Non-GAAP
Financial Measures. Additionally, it appears the comparable measure to this non-GAAP
measure is return on invested capital using GAAP amounts rather than return on assets as
currently presented. Please revise your presentation as appropriate.

September 4, 2024
Page 2
Segment Reporting and Results of Operations
Sales, page 25
2.You cite various factors to explain changes in your results but have not quantified their
impact, most notably for sales and gross margin rate. Please quantify cited factors so
investors may better understand their relative impact. In particular, you disclose you
closed a total of 283 combined owned/licensed stores, which amounts to over 10% of
your total number of combined stores at year end, without quantifying the impact. Refer
to the introductory paragraph of Item 303(b) of Regulation S-K and (b)(2)(i) therein, and
section III.D of Release No. 33-6835 (501.04 of our Codification of Financial Reporting
Policies) for guidance.
Liquidity and Capital Resources
Operating Activities, page 30
3.Please provide in your annual and interim period filings a more fulsome and quantitative
analysis of the factors that caused the reported amount of net cash of operating activities
to change from period to period. For example, discuss underlying factors associated with
each component of working capital cited. Also note that references to results and noncash
items may not provide a sufficient basis to understand how operating cash actually was
affected between periods. Refer to the introductory paragraph of Item 303(b) of
Regulation S-K and the introductory paragraph of section IV.B and all of section B.1 of
Release No. 33-8350 for guidance.  Quantify factors cited, pursuant to section III.D of
Release No. 33-6835 (501.04 of the staff’s Codification of Financial Reporting).
Free Cash Flow (non-GAAP measure), page 31
4.Please disclose a reconciliation of this measure to the comparable GAAP measure "net
cash providing by operating activities." Refer to Item 10(e)(1)(i)(B) of Regulation S-K.
            In closing, we remind you that the company and its management are responsible for the
accuracy and adequacy of their disclosures, notwithstanding any review, comments, action or
absence of action by the staff.
            Please contact Robert Shapiro at 202-551-3273 or Doug Jones at 202-551-3309 with any
questions.
Sincerely,
Division of Corporation Finance
Office of Trade & Services