CTRNCiti Trends, Inc.
Is the price fair?
A demanding price: priced for +20% a year vs +5% a year delivered and at the top of its own P/E range.
Priced for ~20% a year FCF growth. The price demands more than its three-year revenue growth of 5% a year, priced for acceleration.
Expensive vs its own history: P/E 54.1 vs a 17.1 median over 31 quarters (+217% vs median).
Where this answer is blind. The growth-implied estimate assumes a fixed discount rate; capital-heavy sectors look structurally rich on it.
What CTRN's price assumes
Citi Trends, Inc. trades at 54.1× earnings against 13.4× for the median Apparel Retail name, more expensive than its own group.
Trailing P/E · Apparel Retail median 13.4 · 4.04× the median: the market pays up for this one
- Price / sales
- 0.63
Price / sales · as of 2026-Q3
- Free cash flow yield
- 1.7%
Free cash flow yield · Apparel Retail median 8.3%
- Growth the price implies
- +20%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for +20% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; the business has delivered +26% a year over the last three.
Details›
- Price / bookas of 2026-Q3
- 4.37
- EV / EBIToperating margin 0.63%: the multiple describes the denominator
- not meaningful
- Consumer Cyclical median P/E317 names
- 18.0
- Apparel Retail median P/E19 names
- 13.4
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $6.5M
- Market capitalisation8.3 million shares, counted Aug 28, 2026
- $379M
- 3-year revenue growth
- +4.8%
- 3-year free cash flow growth
- +26%
| Method | Per share |
|---|---|
| What its own history would imply | not meaningful, 54.1× today against a 17.1× median |
| 52-week range | $35.47 – $76.20 |
| Today | $45.42 |
Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.
What is it worth?
Today's price against what its own multiples, its cash flow and your growth assumption say it is worth.
Against its own past
Its multiples now against their own history, and how much of the price move came from earnings rather than the multiple.
Apparel Retail
Ranks #14 of 16 by RyuScore