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Ross Stores ROST Price / earnings

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46.3×+5.5×
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29.6×0.0×
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28.3×-2.3×
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14.9×

Other financials

Income statement

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Revenue$6.0B+20.6%
Gross profit$1.8B+26.8%
Operating income$804.0M+32.6%
Net income$650.0M+35.6%
EPS (diluted)$2.02+37.4%

Balance sheet

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Cash & equivalents$4.2B+9.1%
Total debt$4.7B-5.8%
Total equity$6.3B+13.1%
Total assets$15.6B+8.7%

Cash flow

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Operating cash flow$836.0M+104%
CapEx$209.0M+0.8%
Free cash flow$627.1M+210%

Valuation

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Market cap$74.82B+60.7%
Enterprise value$75.35B+57.8%
P/S3.2×+1.0×

Profitability

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Gross margin28.1%+0.3pp
Operating margin12.2%0.0pp
Net margin9.7%-0.1pp

Returns & leverage

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Return on equity39%-0.6pp
Debt / equity0.7×-0.2×
Current ratio1.5×0.0×

Where this comes from

Calculated from Ross Stores’s reported figures.

Based on the most recent quarter.

The official record: Ross Stores’s 10-Q, filed June 2, 2026, on SEC EDGAR. View the filing →

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Questions, answered.

What is Ross Stores's price / earnings?
Ross Stores (ROST) reported price / earnings of 32.2× in Q1 2026.
How has Ross Stores's price / earnings changed year-over-year?
Ross Stores's price / earnings increased by 44.5% year-over-year, from 22.3× to 32.2×.
What is the long-term trend for Ross Stores's price / earnings?
Over 4 years (2021 to 2025), Ross Stores's price / earnings has grown at a -4.6% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), from 125.6× to 104.2×.
What does price / earnings mean?
How many dollars investors pay for each dollar of the company's annual profit.
How do you interpret price / earnings?
Lower can mean cheaper — or that the market expects earnings to fall. High multiples embed growth expectations. Meaningless when earnings are negative, so it is suppressed there.
How does price / earnings compare across companies?
Compare against the company's own history and sector peers, not across sectors with different growth and risk profiles.