ESOP · DOL Form 5500 · 2022

Houchens Industries, Inc. ESOP

Data updated 2026-08-25

$2.1B
Total assets Very large vs avg
6,338
Participants Above avg headcount
99th
Percentile by assets National rank
$325,789
Avg per participant High balance/head
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Official DOL plan name: Houchens Industries, Inc. Employee Stock Ownership Plan · Sponsored by Houchens Industries, Inc. · Kentucky · Retail Trade

$2.1B in assets, 6,338 participants

Houchens Industries, Inc.'s Houchens Industries, Inc. Employee Stock Ownership Plan reported $2.1B in total assets and 6,338 participants in its 2022 DOL Form 5500 filing, ranking in the 99th percentile by assets among filed plans. Figures are as reported by the plan sponsor to the Department of Labor, not audited or endorsed by PlainRetire.

  • #9,485 in Retail Trade (9,519 peers)

Coverage in Kentucky

Houchens Industries, Inc. Employee Stock Ownership Plan covers 6,338 participants in Kentucky, 9.8x the typical Kentucky plan (state average ~647 per filing). Assets: $2.1B.

#9,485
in Retail Trade (9,519 peers)
+10.5%
assets growth YoY
21×
vs typical plan assets (national mean)

Houchens Industries, Inc. Employee Stock Ownership Plan's outsized position by total assets

Houchens Industries, Inc. Employee Stock Ownership Plan vs every filed plan by assets

End-of-year total assets · plan year 2022 · DOL Form 5500

$2,064,849,894 Top 1% higher than 99% of 139,123 filed plans

This plan $0 $2,050,000,000 every filed plan with reported assets, bucketed by value

Dashed line + filled bar = this entry, among filed plans.

Source U.S. Department of Labor Form 5500 filings (EBSA) · plan year 2022

Houchens Industries, Inc. Employee Stock Ownership Plan's large-plan peer group by participant headcount

Plan-year 2022 Form 5500 filings with a reported participant count, partitioned by headcount band, not by assets. Houchens Industries, Inc. Employee Stock Ownership Plan lands in the large band (6,338 participants).

EBSA filing schedule strip

Filing strip 202505350 · Houchens Industries, Inc. PY 2022 · ESOP

Houchens Industries, Inc. Employee Stock Ownership Plan · $2.1B · 6,338 · 99th

  • NET $2.1B
  • NET 6,338
  • NET 99th
  • NET ESOP
  • NET near W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc. Restated Associate Stock Ownership Plan
  • NET ind #9485

Stamps derive from this plan's Form 5500 line items (assets, participants, type, EIN, cohort placement) - not a quality rating of the sponsor. Read with What is an ESOP? → · Plans in Kentucky →

Houchens Industries, Inc. Employee Stock Ownership Plan in the asset neighbourhood

Houchens Industries, Inc. Employee Stock Ownership PlanHouchens Industries, Inc. Em…$2.1BW.L. Gore & Associates, Inc. Restated Associate Stock Ownership PlanW.L. Gore & Associates, Inc.…$1.8BOld Dominion 401(k) Retirement PlanOld Dominion 401(k) Retireme…$1.8BSchweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. Employee Stock Ownership PlanSchweitzer Engineering Labor…$1.8BOri 401(k) Savings and Profit Sharing PlanOri 401(k) Savings and Profi…$1.7B
End-of-year total assets ($B) among Houchens Industries, Inc. Employee Stock Ownership Plan and nearest nationwide ESOP peers. Source: DOL Form 5500 plan year 2022.

Kentucky filing particulars

Total Assets (Beginning of Year)$1.9B
Net Assets (End of Year)$1.8B
Net Income$143M
Employer EIN202505350
Plan Effective Date1961-05-15
Filing StatusFILING RECEIVED

Sponsor Plan History (Houchens Industries, Inc.)

Sponsor-wide plan assets over time

All Houchens Industries, Inc. plans reported in each filing year

Latest sponsor-wide plan assets
$2.6B 27.860618133629817% vs 2022
2024 filing year
$2B$2.2B$2.4B$2.6B$2.8B 202220232024 $2.06B $2.64B ▲ +28.2%
Year Plans Participants Total Assets
2022 1 6,338 $2.1B
2023 1 6,764 $2.3B
2024 1 7,785 $2.6B

Nearby ESOP Plans in Kentucky

Peer ESOP plans, same state, same plan type, ranked by total assets.

Houchens Industries, Inc. Employee Stock Ownership Plan vs. nearby ESOP plans in Kentucky, assets vs. participants Scatter plot of 6 data points. -200002000400060008000 -0.500.511.522.5 Total assets ($B) Participants Houchens Industries, Inc. Employee Stock Ownership Plan, Total assets ($B): 2.064849894 · Participants: 6338Houchens Industries, Inc. Employee Stock Ownership PlanStock Yards Bank & Trust Company 401(k) Employee, Total assets ($B): 0.13966969 · Participants: 682Stock Yards Bank & Trust Company 401(k) EmployeeGray, Inc. Employee Stock Ownership Plan, Total assets ($B): 0.113190046 · Participants: 1269Gray, Inc. Employee Stock Ownership PlanInterstate Personnel Services, Inc. Employee Stock Ownership Plan, Total assets ($B): 0.108901392 · Participants: 831Interstate Personnel Services, Inc. Employee Stock Ownership PlanH & R Agri-Power Employee Stock Ownership Plan, Total assets ($B): 0.082494483 · Participants: 444H & R Agri-Power Employee Stock Ownership PlanCarrier Process Equipment Group, Inc. Employee Stock Ownership Plan, Total assets ($B): 0.080308534 · Participants: 211Carrier Process Equipment Group, Inc. Employee Stock Ownership Plan
Houchens Industries, Inc. Employee Stock Ownership Plan vs. nearby ESOP plans in Kentucky, assets vs. participants

Scale composition for Houchens Industries, Inc. Employee Stock Ownership Plan

Houchens Industries, Inc. Employee Stock Ownership Plan reports $2.1B in end-of-year assets across 6,338 participants (0.017% of the $12.3T held by all Form 5500 filers in the national rollup , and 0.007% of 93,925,755 covered participants) - about $325,789 per participant (2.4x the national average assets-per-participant) . Net income for plan year 2022 was $143M.

This plan identity (EIN 202505350, plan #001) has 3 Form 5500 filings on file from 2022 to 2024 , with end-of-year assets moving from $2.1B to $2.6B (+27.9%) while covered participants moved from 6,338 to 7,785 . Single-year sparse filers cannot show that trail.

Plan year Participants EOY assets Filing
2022 6,338 $2.1B This page
2023 6,764 $2.3B Open filing
2024 · index core 7,785 $2.6B Open filing

The same sponsor also keeps 1 other index-core plan on PlainRetire:

Houchens Industries, Inc. Employee Stock Ownership Plan's out-of-state ESOP peers by assets and headcount

Outside Kentucky, the nearest ESOP by assets is W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc. Restated Associate Stock Ownership Plan in DE ($1.8B); by covered participants it is Thirty Fifteen Employee Stock Ownership Plan in FL (6,258 participants). Same-state nearby plans are listed separately above.

Similar participant headcount

Nearest other-state filings by covered participants (6,338 participants); asset peers above are excluded.

DOL Form 5500 plan year 2022. Asset totals can differ widely at the same headcount; neither axis is a quality rating.

Frequently Asked Questions

How did Houchens Industries, Inc. Employee Stock Ownership Plan assets move in 2022? ▼
Houchens Industries, Inc. Employee Stock Ownership Plan grew at a solid clip - up 10.5% during 2022, from $1.9B to $2.1B. Reported net income was $143M.
How have Houchens Industries, Inc. plan assets changed over time? ▼
Across 3 plan years on file (2022-2024), Houchens Industries, Inc.'s sponsor-wide assets grew 27.9%, from $2.1B to $2.6B.
Where does Houchens Industries, Inc. Employee Stock Ownership Plan rank by assets among Form 5500 filers? ▼
Houchens Industries, Inc. Employee Stock Ownership Plan ranks in the 99th percentile by end-of-year assets among 139,126 plans that reported assets for plan year 2022 (among the largest 1% of all filed plans).
Which ESOP plans are similar in size to Houchens Industries, Inc. Employee Stock Ownership Plan? ▼
Among ESOP plans in other states, the closest by assets is W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc. Restated Associate Stock Ownership Plan in DE ($1.8B, 7,617 participants).
Which ESOP plans cover a similar participant headcount to Houchens Industries, Inc. Employee Stock Ownership Plan? ▼
Among ESOP plans in other states, the closest by covered participants is Thirty Fifteen Employee Stock Ownership Plan in FL (6,258 participants, $425M in assets).