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Kohls Corp. KSS

19 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only

Revenue

$15.5B

▼ 4.3% YoY

Net income

$272.0M

▲ 149.5% YoY

Free cash flow

$1.0B

▲ 453.8% YoY

In brief

What this company does

Kohl's Corporation sells moderately-priced proprietary and national brand apparel, footwear, accessories, beauty and home products through its stores and website. As of January 31, 2026, it operated 1,153 Kohl's stores and a website. Its merchandise mix combines national brands with proprietary brands available only at Kohl's, including Apt. 9, Croft & Barrow, FLX, Jumping Beans, SO, Sonoma Goods for Life and Tek Gear, along with exclusive brands developed and marketed through agreements with nationally-recognized brands such as LC Lauren Conrad, Nine West and Simply Vera Vera Wang. It receives substantially all of its merchandise at nine retail distribution centers and four e-commerce fulfillment centers. During 2025, it employed an average of approximately 84,000 associates, including approximately 29,000 full-time and 55,000 part-time associates. No single vendor accounted for more than 10% of its net purchases in 2025. Kohl's Corporation was organized in 1988 and is a Wisconsin corporation.

Written from the business description in KOHL'S CORP's annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 19 March 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth

USD 15.5B

Revenue, FY2025 · full 19-year series below

Revenue $B Net income $B

FY2025 · Revenue 15.5 · Net income 0.3

Compound annual growth

Revenue

−5.0%

−0.5%

−2.1%

−1.1%

Net income

−8.7%

−9.0%

Dividend / share

−37.0%

−6.6%

Returned to shareholders

−60.3%

−13.6%

−26.4%

−17.1%

3 yrs

5 yrs

10 yrs

15 yrs

Revenue compounded at −0.5% 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

2 cents

of every revenue dollar became profit

Operating margin Net margin

FY2025 · Operating 4.0% · Net 1.8%

ROE

FY2025 · ROE 6.9%

Gross margin40.6%

Operating margin4.0%

Net margin1.8%

Return on assets2.0%

EBITDA—

Each USD of equity produced 7 cents of profit this year.

Cash & shareholders

USD 56.0M

returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks

Free cash flow $B

FY2025 · FCF 1.0

Net buybacks $B Dividends $B

FY2025 · Dividends 0.1 · Net buybacks —

Dividends paidUSD 56.0M

Net buybacks—

Share of profit20.6%

Consecutive raises—

USD 56.0M in dividends — 21% of the year's profit went back to shareholders.

Total assetsUSD 13.4B

EquityUSD 4.0B

CashUSD 674.0M

Gross debtUSD 1.4B

Net debtUSD 762.0M

Current ratio1.46×

Net debt stands at 19% of equity.

The 19-year record

19 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	2025	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016	2015	2014	2013	2012	2011	2010	2009	2008	2007
Revenue $B	15.5	16.2	17.5	18.1	19.4	16.0	20.0	20.2	20.1	19.7	19.2	19.0	19.0	19.3	18.8	18.4	17.2	16.4	16.5
Operating income $B	0.6	0.4	0.7	0.2	1.7	−0.3	1.1	1.4	1.4	1.2	1.6	1.7	1.7	1.9	2.2	2.1	1.9	1.7	1.8
EBITDA $B	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·
Income tax $B	0.1	0.0	0.1	−0.0	0.3	−0.4	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.3	0.4	0.5	0.5	0.6	0.7	0.7	0.6	0.5	0.7
Net income $B	0.3	0.1	0.3	−0.0	0.9	−0.2	0.7	0.8	0.9	0.6	0.7	0.9	0.9	1.0	1.2	1.1	1.0	0.9	1.1
Free cash flow $B	1.0	0.2	0.6	−0.5	1.7	1.0	0.8	1.5	1.0	1.4	0.8	1.3	1.2	0.5	1.2	0.9	1.6	0.7	−0.3
EPS, diluted $	2.38	0.98	2.85	−0.15	6.32	−1.06	4.37	4.84	5.12	3.11	3.46	4.24	4.05	4.17	4.30	3.66	3.17	2.80	3.39
Dividend / sh $	0.50	2.00	2.00	2.00	1.00	0.70	2.68	2.44	2.20	2.00	1.80	1.56	1.40	1.28	1.00	·	·	·	·
Payout %	21	204	69	−1258	16	−66	61	50	43	64	52	37	34	30	23	0	·	·	·
ROE %	6.9	2.8	8.3	−0.5	19.0	−3.1	12.6	14.6	16.2	10.4	11.7	14.5	14.8	15.7	16.3	14.5	13.8	13.8	18.4

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Provenance

Company facts, as filed

How we verify · 0 failures in 84 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 19 of 19 fiscal years. 3 checks could not be computed.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquiditymoeda_consistente0 failures

ActivityRetail-Department Stores

Listed onNYSE

Incorporated inWisconsin

Fiscal year endsJanuary 29

Data on record since2007