EXTREME-PHOTOGRAPHER/E+ via Getty ImagesInvestment Thesis Academy Sports and Outdoors (NASDAQ:ASO) has big expansion plans. ASO’s five-year long-range plan (LRP) includes opening 160 – 180 new stores in the next five years, with an ROIC hurdle of no less than 20% for each store, improving its supply chain, and increasing annual sales by at least 66%. If the company can come anywhere close to delivering the type of free cash flow growth that it has from its recent new and same-store performance, it could ...