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Ross Stores, Inc. ROST

18 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only
5 YEARS OF DIVIDEND GROWTH
$22.8B
▲ 7.7% YoY
$2.1B
▲ 2.6% YoY
$2.2B
▲ 34.9% YoY

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In brief

What this company does

Ross Stores, Inc. and its subsidiaries operate two brands of off-price retail apparel and home fashion stores, Ross Dress for Less and dd's DISCOUNTS. As of January 31, 2026, it operated a total of 2,267 stores, comprised of 1,904 Ross stores and 363 dd's DISCOUNTS stores. Ross stores operate across 44 states, the District of Columbia, Guam and Puerto Rico. dd's DISCOUNTS stores operate in 22 states. As of January 31, 2026, it had approximately 111,000 total associates across its stores, distribution centers, and buying and corporate offices. Over 85% of these associates worked in its retail stores.

Written from the business description in Ross Stores, Inc.'s annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 31 March 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth

USD 22.8B
Revenue, FY2025 · full 18-year series below
Revenue $B Net income $B
FY2025 · Revenue 22.8 · Net income 2.1
10B20B
2008201120142017202020232025
Compound annual growth
+6.8%
+12.7%
+6.7%
+7.3%
+12.4%
+90.6%
+7.7%
+9.4%
+14.7%
+94.1%
+10.2%
+9.3%
+41.6%
+13.2%
+4.5%
+46.5%
+5.9%
+8.7%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs

Revenue compounded at +12.7% a year over the five years to FY2025 — but profit grew faster: net income at +90.6%, earnings per share at +94.1%.

The share count fell from 0.36B to 0.32B — the buyback concentrates the same profit into fewer slices.

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

9 cents
of every revenue dollar became profit
Operating margin Net margin
FY2025 · Operating 11.9% · Net 9.4%
5%10%
200820162025
ROE
FY2025 · ROE 36.7%
20%40%
200820162025
Three returns, three denominators.
Gross margin27.7%
Operating margin11.9%
Net margin9.4%
EBITDAUSD 3.2B

Each USD of equity produced 37 cents of profit this year.

Cash & shareholders

USD 1.6B
returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks
Free cash flow $B
FY2025 · FCF 2.2
1B2B
200820162025
Net buybacks $B Dividends $B
FY2025 · Dividends 0.5 · Net buybacks 1.1
1B2BDividendsNet buybacks
2008201120142017202020232025
Dividends paidUSD 528.1M
Net buybacksUSD 1.1B
Share of profit73.6%
Consecutive raises5 years

USD 528.1M in dividends and USD 1.1B in buybacks — 74% of the year's profit went back to shareholders.

Total assetsUSD 15.5B
EquityUSD 6.2B
CashUSD 4.6B
Gross debtUSD 1.5B
Net debtUSD -3.1B
Current ratio1.58×

The company holds more cash than debt.

The 18-year record

18 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
ROST, 18-year financial record
Metric 202520242023202220212020201920182017201620152014201320122011201020092008
Revenue $B22.821.120.418.718.912.516.015.014.112.911.911.010.29.78.67.97.26.5
Operating income $B2.72.62.32.02.30.12.2◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌
EBITDA $B3.23.02.72.42.60.52.5◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌
Income tax $B0.70.70.60.50.50.00.50.50.70.70.60.60.50.50.40.30.30.2
Net income $B2.12.11.91.51.70.11.71.61.41.11.00.90.80.80.70.60.40.3
Free cash flow $B2.21.61.81.01.21.81.61.71.31.31.00.70.50.60.40.50.70.4
EPS, diluted $6.616.325.564.384.870.244.604.263.552.832.512.211.943.532.862.311.772.33
Dividend / sh $1.621.471.341.241.140.281.020.900.640.540.470.400.260.590.470.350.240.40
Payout %2523242924119222118191918181616141216
ROE %36.740.340.936.246.92.649.850.047.042.843.043.144.448.346.544.641.130.7
Shares out B0.320.330.340.340.350.360.360.370.380.390.400.210.210.220.230.120.12◌

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Provenance

Company facts, as filed

How we verify · 0 failures in 70 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 18 of the 18 fiscal years we could check. Four checks were skipped: the balance sheet is not tagged before 2009. One check was skipped: EPS is not tagged before 2008. One check was skipped: revenue is not tagged before 2008.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquidityCurrency consistency0 failures
ActivityRetail-Family Clothing Stores
Listed onNASDAQ
Incorporated inDelaware
Fiscal year endsFebruary 1
Data on record since2008

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