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Designer Brands Inc. DBI

17 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only
$2.9B
▼ 3.9% YoY
$-8.4M
$78.3M
▲ 149.7% YoY

Slide the table for earlier years · "·" marks a figure not available in our data for that year.

In brief

What this company does

Designer Brands Inc. designs, produces, and retails footwear and accessories. It operates in two reportable segments, the Retail segment and the Brand Portfolio segment. The Brand Portfolio segment had five customers that made up 38.0% of its segment net sales in 2025, excluding intersegment net sales. As of January 31, 2026, it employed approximately 13,000 associates worldwide, approximately 11,000 of whom were employed in the U.S. On April 8, 2024, it completed the acquisition of Rubino Shoes Inc., a retailer of branded footwear, handbags, and accessories that operates Rubino banner stores and an e-commerce site in Quebec, Canada. It was originally founded as DSW Inc.

Written from the business description in Designer Brands Inc.'s annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 30 March 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth

USD 2.9B
Revenue, FY2025 · full 17-year series below
Revenue $B Net income $B
FY2025 · Revenue 2.9 · Net income -0.0
1.5B3.0B-0.2B-0.4B
2009201220152018202120242025
Compound annual growth
−4.4%
+5.3%
+1.0%
+3.1%
+0.0%
−60.9%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs

Revenue compounded at +5.3% a year over the five years to FY2025.

Compound annual rates per period — left blank where that exact year isn't on file, the series crosses a loss, or (per-share rows) a split falls inside the window.

Profitability

−0 cents
lost on every revenue dollar
Operating margin Net margin
FY2025 · Operating 1.7% · Net -0.2%
5%10%-10%-20%
200920172025
ROE
FY2013 · ROE 17.6%
10%20%30%
200920172025
Three returns, three denominators.
Return on equityNot available in our data for this period.

Return on equity has no reading this year — return on capital employed, just below, still does: 3%.

Cash & shareholders

USD 9.7M
returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks
Free cash flow $M
FY2025 · FCF 78.3
100M200M-100M-200M
200920172025
Net buybacks $M Dividends $M
FY2025 · Dividends 9.7 · Net buybacks 0.0
100M200MDividendsNet buybacks
201020122014201620182020202220242025

USD 9.7M in dividends went back to shareholders in a year without profit.

Total assetsUSD 1.9B
CashUSD 50.9M
Gross debtUSD 435.0M
Net debtUSD 384.1M
Current ratio1.20×

Not available: we don't have the shareholders' equity figure for this period.

The 17-year record

17 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD

EPS, diluted, dividend per share and shares outstanding are shown without shading, and a vertical line marks the year the share count changed — the series crosses a large, unexplained change in share count, so the years on either side are not on a comparable scale.

row low → row highnegative—not applicable◌not available in our data
DBI, 17-year financial record
Metric 20252024202320222021202020192018201720162015201420132012201120102009
Revenue $B2.93.03.13.33.22.23.53.22.82.72.62.52.42.32.01.81.6
Operating income $B0.00.00.10.20.2−0.60.10.10.10.20.20.20.20.20.20.1−0.0
EBITDA $B0.10.10.10.30.3−0.50.20.10.20.30.30.30.30.30.20.20.0
Income tax $B0.0−0.00.0−0.00.0−0.10.00.00.10.10.10.10.10.1−0.10.10.0
Net income $B−0.0−0.00.00.20.2−0.50.1−0.00.10.10.10.20.20.10.20.0−0.0
Free cash flow $B0.10.00.10.10.1−0.20.10.10.10.10.10.10.20.20.10.10.1
EPS, diluted $−0.17−0.200.462.262.00−6.771.27−0.260.841.511.541.691.651.622.270.82−1.23
Dividend / sh $0.200.200.200.20◌0.101.001.000.800.800.800.750.381.441.150.00◌
Payout %−115−994280−1◌◌◌◌◌◌221570—
ROE %◌◌◌◌———————◌17.617.833.97.3◌

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Provenance

Company facts, as filed

How we verify · 0 failures in 69 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 17 of the 17 fiscal years we could check. Six checks were skipped: the balance sheet is not tagged before 2010. Two checks were skipped: EPS is not tagged before 2009. Two checks were skipped: revenue is not tagged before 2009.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquidityCurrency consistency0 failures
ActivityRetail-Shoe Stores
Listed onNYSE
Incorporated inOhio
Fiscal year endsJanuary 30
SEC categorysmaller reporting company
Data on record since2009

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