$AXON

Rick Smith

Axon Enterprise

Founder & CEO • Since 1993 • Industrials

Also profiled in: Nasdaq-100

📊 CEO Reputation Score

FY2025 vs FY2024 · Source: SEC EDGAR filings

6/100

Blend of this company's year-over-year free-cash-flow and profit improvement, each ranked as a percentile against every scored company in the three indexes.

Free cash flow: $330M → $75M (−77.2% YoY) — fiscal 2025 vs fiscal 2024
Profit (net income): $377M → $125M (−66.9% YoY) — fiscal 2025 vs fiscal 2024

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Overview

Rick Smith is the founder & ceo of Axon Enterprise since 1993. Axon Enterprise is a Industrials company headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona, founded in 1993, and one of the 500 companies in the S&P 500 — every one of which is profiled on this site.

Leadership

Rick holds the chief executive role at Axon Enterprise with the title Founder & CEO — in post since 1993. This page is the concise leadership record for Axon Enterprise in the S&P 500 CEO index; the site's fully researched long-form profiles (career timelines, education, achievements, setbacks, philosophy and sourced quotes) currently cover the index's ten largest companies, and this entry will be expanded in the same format. Rick Smith is a founder of the company — a distinction shared by only a minority of the chief executives in this index.

At a Glance

Sector: Industrials
Ticker: $AXON
Headquarters: Scottsdale, Arizona
Founded: 1993
CEO since: 1993
Index: S&P 500 (#54 of 500)