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Burlington Stores BURL Return on equity

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25.5%+2.7pp
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61.3%+0.9pp
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39%-0.6pp
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Other financials

Income statement

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Revenue$2.9B+14.1%
Gross profit$1.3B+14.8%
Net income$114.7M+13.8%
EPS (diluted)$1.79+13.3%

Balance sheet

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Cash & equivalents$747.4M+101%
Total debt$5.9B+10.1%
Total equity$1.8B+35.8%
Total assets$9.8B+14.4%

Cash flow

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Operating cash flow$61.5M+313%
CapEx$288.7M-29.5%
Free cash flow-$227.3M+48.2%

Valuation

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Market cap$21.21B+34.4%
Enterprise value$26.35B+26.7%
P/E34×+4.0×
P/S1.8×+0.3×

Profitability

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Gross margin44%+0.6pp
Net margin5.2%+0.4pp
FCF margin3.2%

Returns & leverage

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Debt / equity3.2×-0.8×
Current ratio1.2×+0.1×

Where this comes from

Calculated from Burlington Stores’s reported figures.

Based on trailing twelve months.

The official record: Burlington Stores’s 10-Q, filed May 28, 2026, on SEC EDGAR. View the filing →

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Questions, answered.

What is Burlington Stores's return on equity?
Burlington Stores (BURL) reported return on equity of 39.1% in Q1 2026.
How has Burlington Stores's return on equity changed year-over-year?
Burlington Stores's return on equity decreased by 11.3% year-over-year, from 44.1% to 39.1%.
What is the long-term trend for Burlington Stores's return on equity?
Over 5 years (2020 to 2025), Burlington Stores's return on equity has grown at a -2.5% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), from -43.6% to 38.4%.
What does return on equity mean?
How much profit the company earns on the money shareholders have invested.
How do you interpret return on equity?
Higher is better, but very high ROE can be manufactured by leverage — a thin equity base inflates the ratio. Read it next to debt-to-equity and ROIC to tell genuine returns from balance-sheet engineering.
How does return on equity compare across companies?
Comparable across peers, with the leverage caveat. Negative or near-zero equity makes ROE meaningless, so it is suppressed there.