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Ross Stores ROST Return on assets

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17%+1.3pp
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8%+4.9pp

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$74.68B+60.7%
Enterprise value$75.2B+57.8%
P/E32.3×+9.9×
P/S3.1×+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 trailing twelve months.

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 return on assets?
Ross Stores (ROST) reported return on assets of 15.5% in Q1 2026.
How has Ross Stores's return on assets changed year-over-year?
Ross Stores's return on assets increased by 7.3% year-over-year, from 14.5% to 15.5%.
What is the long-term trend for Ross Stores's return on assets?
Over 4 years (2021 to 2025), Ross Stores's return on assets has grown at a 7.0% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), from 43% to 56.4%.
What does return on assets mean?
How much profit the company squeezes out of everything it owns.
How do you interpret return on assets?
Higher means more productive assets. Unlike ROE, it is unaffected by leverage, so a wide ROE-minus-ROA gap flags a heavily levered balance sheet.
How does return on assets compare across companies?
Best compared within an industry — asset intensity varies enormously across sectors. Not meaningful for banks, whose assets are largely financial.