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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
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
2.0B-0.2B-0.4B200920112013201520172019202120232025
Compound annual growth
−4.4%
+5.3%
+1.0%
+3.1%
+0.0%
+14.9%
−12.9%
−60.9%
+6.2%
−27.5%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs

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

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%200920112013201520172019202120232025
ROE
FY2012 · ROE 18.6%
10%20%30%200920112013201520172019202120232025

Cash & shareholders
USD 9.7M
returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks
Free cash flow $M
FY2025 · FCF 78.3
80M160M-80M-160M200920112013201520172019202120232025
Net buybacks $M Dividends $M
FY2025 · Dividends 9.7 · Net buybacks 0.0
100M200MDividendsNet buybacks201020122014201620182020202220242025

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
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 %·············18.633.97.3·

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

Provenance
Company facts, as filed
How we verify · 0 failures in 69 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 17 of 19 fiscal years. 20 checks could not be computed.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquiditymoeda_consistente0 failures
ActivityRetail-Shoe Stores
Listed onNYSE
Incorporated inOhio
Fiscal year endsJanuary 30
SEC categorysmaller reporting company
Data on record since2009

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