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Kohls Corp. KSS

19 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only
$15.5B
▼ 4.3% YoY
$272.0M
▲ 149.5% YoY
$1.0B
▲ 453.8% YoY

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

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
10B20B
2007201020132016201920222025
Compound annual growth
−5.0%
−0.5%
−2.1%
−1.1%
−8.7%
−9.0%
−37.0%
−6.6%
−60.3%
−13.6%
−26.4%
−17.1%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs

Revenue compounded at −0.5% 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

2 cents
of every revenue dollar became profit
Operating margin Net margin
FY2025 · Operating 4.0% · Net 1.8%
5.0%10.0%-0.5%-1.0%-1.5%
200720162025
ROE
FY2025 · ROE 6.9%
5%10%15%-1%-2%-3%
200720162025
Three returns, three denominators.
Gross margin40.6%
Operating margin4.0%
Net margin1.8%
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
1.0B2.0B-0.2B-0.4B
200720162025
Net buybacks $B Dividends $B
FY2025 · Dividends 0.1 · Net buybacks ·
1B2BDividendsNet buybacks
2007201020132016201920222025
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—not applicable◌not available in our data
KSS, 19-year financial record
Metric 2025202420232022202120202019201820172016201520142013201220112010200920082007
Revenue $B15.516.217.518.119.416.020.020.220.119.719.219.019.019.318.818.417.216.416.5
Operating income $B0.60.40.70.21.7−0.31.11.41.41.21.61.71.71.92.22.11.91.71.8
EBITDA $B◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌
Income tax $B0.10.00.1−0.00.3−0.40.20.20.30.30.40.50.50.60.70.70.60.50.7
Net income $B0.30.10.3−0.00.9−0.20.70.80.90.60.70.90.91.01.21.11.00.91.1
Free cash flow $B1.00.20.6−0.51.71.00.81.51.01.40.81.31.20.51.20.91.60.7−0.3
EPS, diluted $2.380.982.85−0.156.32−1.064.374.845.123.113.464.244.054.174.303.663.172.803.39
Dividend / sh $0.502.002.002.001.000.702.682.442.202.001.801.561.401.281.00◌◌◌◌
Payout %2120469−125816−666150436452373430230———
ROE %6.92.88.3−0.519.0−3.112.614.616.210.411.714.514.815.716.314.513.813.818.4

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Provenance

Company facts, as filed

How we verify · 0 failures in 84 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 19 of the 19 fiscal years we could check. Two checks were skipped: the balance sheet is not tagged before 2008. One check was skipped: the share count is not tagged before 2008.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquidityCurrency consistency0 failures
ActivityRetail-Department Stores
Listed onNYSE
Incorporated inWisconsin
Fiscal year endsJanuary 29
Data on record since2007

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