Designer Brands Inc.

DBI Consumer Cyclical Footwear & Accessories

Designer Brands Inc.’s revenue for fiscal 2026 (year ended January 2026) was $2.9 billion, down 3.87% from fiscal 2025. In the quarter to July 2026, revenue fell 1.23%, EPS grew 40.9%, free cash flow grew 385.7% and total debt fell 18.1%, each against the same quarter a year earlier. Dividend growth for five consecutive years.

6.19 0.23 −3.58%
Market cap
$328.2M
P/E
22.1×
Fwd P/E
−6.4×
Dividend yield
3.23%
F-score
6/9
Altman Z
1.80
Beneish M
−2.58
Dividend safety
39/100

Insider Decisions trades per month

Total sells 1.77
Totals in millions of $.
Dec 25 Mar 26 Jun 26 Sep 26
Buy — — — — — — — — — — — —
Sell — 2 — — — — — 1 — — 2 —
Insider Ownership 29.76%

Capital & Financial Ratios $m

Market Cap 328.22
Revenue 2,892.98
Net Income 25.11
Free Cash Flow 119.92
Net Debt 371.47
Current Ratio 1.22
Debt/Equity 1.41
P/E ratio 22.11
Fwd P/E (6.40) (negative: loss-making)
P/S ratio 0.11
P/B ratio 1.05
Past 5Y EPS Growth —
This Y EPS Growth 217.34% (at or above 15%: strong)
Next Y EPS Growth 37.83% (at or above 15%: strong)
Next Y revenue growth 0.74%
Next 5Y EPS Growth 82.78% (at or above 15%: strong)

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Valuation vs history

P/E against its own 10 years 69.50%
10-year low 10-year high
P/S against its own 10 years 14.60%
10-year low 10-year high
P/B against its own 10 years 18.72%
10-year low 10-year high
EV/Sales against its own 10 years 11.06%
10-year low 10-year high

Dividends

Payout Ratio 0.71
Annual Dividend Rate 0.20
Annual Dividend Yield 3.23%
total individual payouts
2029 Powerpack
2028 Powerpack
2027 Powerpack
2026 0.20
0.05
0.05
0.05
2025 0.20
0.05
0.05
0.05
0.05
2024 0.20
0.05
0.05
0.05
0.05
2023 0.20
0.05
0.05
0.05
0.05
2022 0.20
0.05
0.05
0.05
0.05
2021 Powerpack
2020 0.10
0.10
2019 1.00
0.25
0.25
0.25
0.25
2018 1.00
0.25
0.25
0.25
0.25
2017 0.80
0.20
0.20
0.20
0.20
2016 0.80
0.20
0.20
0.20
0.20
predictions special payouts not included in total or ratios

Assets vs Liabilities $m

2024 2025 2026 Q'26
Cash 49 45 51 52
Receivables 84 50 59 80
Inventory 571 600 564 595
Other — — — —
777 735 708 763
2024 2025 2026 Q'26
Payables 289 272 236 256
ST’ Debt 7 7 7 7
Other — — — —
622 590 588 627

Compound Annual Growth %

10y 5y 3y
Sales 0.99% 5.30% (4.45%)
Cash Flow (7.72%) 0.00% (18.30%)
Earnings 0.00% 0.00% 0.00%
Book Value (10.99%) 3.06% (13.26%)

Revenue $m

Apr Jul Oct Jan Year
’26 696 731 — — —
’26 687 740 752 714 2,893
’25 747 772 777 714 3,009
’24 742 792 786 754 3,075
’23 831 859 865 761 3,315
’22 703 817 853 823 3,197
’21 483 490 653 609 2,235
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

Operating Cash Flow $m

Apr Jul Oct Jan Year
’26 (22) 70 — — —
’26 (20) 21 67 42 110
’25 (20) 42 (10) 70 82
’24 23 112 68 (40) 162
’23 (41) 52 27 163 201
’22 (1) 98 68 7 171
’21 (39) (40) (27) (47) (154)
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

Free Cash Flow $m

Apr Jul Oct Jan Year
’26 (32) 58 — — —
’26 (28) 12 57 36 78
’25 (36) 28 (19) 58 31
’24 8 101 51 (53) 107
’23 (53) 37 12 150 146
’22 (7) 90 59 (4) 138
’21 (54) (48) (31) (52) (185)
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

EPS $

Apr Jul Oct Jan Year
’26 0.02 0.31 — — —
’26 (0.36) 0.22 0.35 (0.40) (0.17)
’25 0.01 0.24 0.24 (0.80) (0.20)
’24 0.17 0.56 0.17 (0.52) 0.46
’23 0.34 0.62 0.65 0.66 2.26
’22 0.22 0.55 1.04 0.19 2.00
’21 (3.00) (1.36) (0.56) (1.85) (6.77)
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

Target Price Range

Analyst price targets

Recommendation Rating

3
1Buy 2 3Hold 4 5Sell

Ten years at a glance Fiscal years to January

Group Line 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 Trend 2027e 2028e 2029e
Price, $
Price, $ Low 15.14 18.01 13.88 2.60 7.09 9.23 6.14 4.36 2.17 4.74

Analyst estimates 2027–2029

Powerpack
High 22.72 34.63 30.73 16.98 20.48 19.38 13.44 11.57 8.75 9.17
People
People Employees 12,600 12,000 16,100 15,800 14,800 13,500 14,000 14,000 14,000 13,000
Revenue/emp, $m 0.22 0.23 0.20 0.22 0.15 0.24 0.24 0.22 0.21 0.22
Income, $m
Income, $m Revenue 2,718 2,806 3,178 3,493 2,235 3,197 3,315 3,075 3,009 2,893
Gross margin, % 28.87 28.48 29.54 28.62 13.93 33.43 43.88 43.06 42.73 43.57
EBT 202 126 11 120 (609) 173 160 40 (11) 2
EBT margin, % 7.45 4.49 0.34 3.43 (27.24) 5.41 4.81 1.31 (0.36) 0.08
Net income 124 67 (20) 94 (489) 154 163 29 (10) (6)
Depreciation 83 81 79 87 88 78 81 66 64 59
Per share, $
Per share, $ Revenue 33.34 35.00 39.71 47.45 30.95 43.77 49.04 50.17 56.08 58.87
Earnings 1.52 0.83 (0.26) 1.27 (6.77) 2.00 2.26 0.46 (0.20) (0.17)
Cash flow 2.61 2.38 2.19 2.67 (2.13) 2.35 2.98 2.65 1.53 2.24
Capex (1.07) (0.70) (3.31) (1.06) (0.43) (0.45) (0.81) (0.90) (0.95) (0.64)
Free cash flow 1.54 1.68 (1.12) 1.62 (2.56) 1.90 2.17 1.75 0.58 1.59
Book value 11.50 11.92 10.40 9.79 3.37 5.65 6.40 5.86 5.19 5.75
Shares, m 82 80 80 74 72 73 68 61 54 49
Valuation, ×
Valuation, × P/E 14.01 24.13 0.00 11.30 0.00 6.59 4.54 22.55 0.00 0.00
P/S 0.63 0.57 0.69 0.30 0.39 0.30 0.21 0.17 0.09 0.11
P/B 1.84 1.68 2.62 1.45 3.62 2.33 1.61 1.46 0.97 1.17
EV/Sales 0.56 0.47 0.68 0.38 0.52 0.41 0.33 0.29 0.24 0.25
EV/FCF 12.10 9.69 (22.83) (15.24) (2.96) (19.74) (18.92) (9.25) (4.12) (5.62)
Cash, $m
Cash, $m Operating cash flow 213 191 175 197 (154) 171 201 162 82 110
Capex (88) (56) (265) (78) (31) (33) (55) (55) (51) (32)
Free cash flow 125 135 (89) 119 (185) 138 146 107 31 78
Balance, $m
Balance, $m Working capital 443 543 492 221 28 155 154 155 144 120
Total debt — — 160 377 335 428 471 427 491 435
Net debt (209) (301) (9) 265 275 355 412 378 446 384
Shareholders’ equity 937 955 832 721 243 412 433 359 278 282
Returns, %
Returns, % ROA 8.89 4.73 (1.35) 4.63 (22.01) 7.74 8.08 1.42 (0.52) (0.42)
ROIC 17.16 11.94 4.48 8.07 (70.71) 16.72 13.86 6.14 3.01 4.48
ROE 13.51 7.13 (2.29) 12.17 (101.40) 47.14 38.49 7.34 (3.31) (2.99)
Negative figures in brackets.

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Fiscal years to Jan 2026 · latest quarter Jul 2026

Charts ten years each

Designer Brands Inc. vs peers in Footwear & Accessories (Q) = latest quarter vs a year earlier

Company Market cap P/E Fwd P/E Revenue growth (Q) EPS growth (Q) FCF growth (Q) Gross margin (Q) EBIT margin (Q) Compare
CROX Crocs, Inc. $6.0B 10.5× 9.3× +2.62% (above 0%: growing) n/m +22.93% (above 0%: growing) 59.41% 24.22% Compare
SHOO Steven Madden, Ltd. $3.4B 22.5× 16.9× +19.12% (above 0%: growing) n/m +233.50% (above 0%: growing) 46.50% 5.90% Compare
WWW Wolverine World Wide, Inc. $1.6B 15.3× 10.3× +6.79% (above 0%: growing) +15.62% (above 0%: growing) +104.37% (above 0%: growing) 46.47% 9.34% Compare
FWDI Forward Industries, Inc. $545.5M — (loss-making) — (loss-making) +332.09% (above 0%: growing) n/m −4,212.31% (below 0%: shrinking) 62.19% (651.82%) Compare
WEYS Weyco Group, Inc. $497.7M 14.2× 6.9× +6.86% (above 0%: growing) +487.50% (above 0%: growing) −31.69% (below 0%: shrinking) 70.37% 27.36% Compare
FOSL Fossil Group, Inc. $406.9M — (loss-making) — (loss-making) −4.86% (below 0%: shrinking) n/m −130.01% (below 0%: shrinking) 62.38% 1.53% Compare
RCKY Rocky Brands, Inc. $349.7M 11.9× — (loss-making) +12.04% (above 0%: growing) +285.42% (above 0%: growing) +275.54% (above 0%: growing) 51.37% 16.63% Compare
DBI Designer Brands Inc. $328.2M 22.1× — (loss-making) −1.23% (below 0%: shrinking) +40.91% (above 0%: growing) +385.67% (above 0%: growing) 50.01% 7.49%
VRA Vera Bradley, Inc. $171.7M — (loss-making) — (loss-making) +1.12% (above 0%: growing) n/m +462.76% (above 0%: growing) 59.76% 5.83% Compare
Median of peers $521.6M 14.2× 9.8× +6.83% +285.42% +63.65% 59.59% 7.62%

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Designer Brands Inc. (DBI) key facts

  • Concern: Designer Brands Inc.’s revenue for fiscal 2026 (year ended January 2026) was $2.9 billion, down 3.87% from fiscal 2025.
  • Designer Brands Inc. (DBI) is a Footwear & Accessories company in the Consumer Cyclical sector, listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
  • As of October 16, 2026, DBI traded at $6.19, a market capitalization of $328.2 million.
  • Designer Brands Inc. pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share, a yield of 3.23%, with a payout ratio of 71.4%.
  • Return on equity was −2.99% and debt-to-equity 1.40.
  • Its Piotroski F-score is 6 out of 9 and its Altman Z-score is 1.80 (distress zone) for fiscal 2026.

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