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PROFILE
Edward Stack & family
Executive Chairman, Dick's Sporting Goods
$5.8B
$55M (0.96%)
Real Time Net Worth
as of 5/22/26
Reflects change since 5 pm ET of prior trading day.
Photo by Scott Dalton/Invision/AP
From the Editor
Last Updated Mar 10, 2026, 1:01am EDT
- Ed Stack is the executive chairman and largest individual shareholder of Dick's Sporting Goods.
- His father, Dick Stack, founded the retailer in 1948 with a $300 loan from his grandmother.
- Ed and his siblings bought the company from their father in 1984, when it only had two stores in upstate New York.
- When his father retired that same year, Ed took over as CEO, taking Dick's public in 2002 and stepping down as CEO in 2021.
- Dick's Sporting Goods now generates more than $13 billion in annual sales across more than 850 stores.
Wealth History
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Personal Stats
- Age
- 71
- Source of Wealth
- Dick's Sporting Goods
- Residence
- Sewickley, Pennsylvania
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital Status
- Married
- Education
- Bachelor of Arts/Science, St. John Fisher College
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