ROSTRoss Stores

Consumer Cyclical

$229.33+49% 1Y

$229.33

$155.0652 weeks$255.19

Is the price fair?

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A demanding price: at the top of its own P/E range and rich vs its sector.

2 to watch, 1 neutral

What the price assumes~+9% a year

Priced for ~9% a year FCF growth. Roughly in line with its three-year revenue growth of 8% a year.

Vs its own P/E rangedearer than 80% of its own historyderived

Expensive vs its own history: P/E 27.8 vs a 22.0 median over 40 quarters (+26% vs median).

Vs sector (EV/EBIT)20.8×

Sector median 15.0× across 156 covered peers. EV/EBIT counts debt as part of the price, so a cash-rich and a borrowed company can be compared on the same footing.

Unless marked, from derived, as of Aug 1, 2026.

Against the whole market›

Percentile against every name Ryufin tracks. Higher is better; the tick marks the middle of the market. Context, not one of the checks above.

P/E (valuation)middle of the market

FCF yieldmiddle of the market

Where this answer is blind. The growth-implied estimate assumes a fixed discount rate; capital-heavy sectors look structurally rich on it.

What ROST's price assumes

Ross Stores trades at 27.8× earnings against 13.4× for the median Apparel Retail name, more expensive than its own group.

27.8

Trailing P/E · Apparel Retail median 13.4 · 2.07× the median: the market pays up for this one

Price / sales: 2.99
Price / sales · today's price, trailing year to Aug 1, 2026
Free cash flow yield: 3.8%
Free cash flow yield · Apparel Retail median 8.3%
Growth the price implies: +9.3%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for +9.3% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; the business has delivered +10% a year over the last three.

Details›

Price / booktoday's price, trailing year to Aug 1, 2026: 10.9
EV / EBITtoday's price, trailing year to Aug 1, 2026: 20.8
EV / salestoday's price, trailing year to Aug 1, 2026: 2.86
Consumer Cyclical median P/E317 names: 18.0
Apparel Retail median P/E19 names: 13.4
Free cash flow, trailing twelve months: $2.79B
Market capitalisation319.5 million shares, counted Aug 14, 2026: $73.3B
3-year revenue growth: +8.5%
3-year free cash flow growth: +10%

What the market has paid for these earnings: 40 quarters of its own multiple × $8.26 of trailing earnings per share
Method	Per share
Its own P/E history, lower quartile	$173.25
Its own P/E history, median	$181.37
Its own P/E history, upper quartile	$204.90
52-week range	$155.06 – $255.19
Today	$229.33

Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.