Burlington Stores, Inc. (BURL) vs Ross Stores, Inc. (ROST)

Burlington Stores, Inc. and Ross Stores, Inc. are both Apparel Retail companies. Ross Stores, Inc. is the larger, with a market value of $75.2B against $16.0B — 4.7× the size. Burlington Stores, Inc. trades at the lower P/E: 22.9× against 28.3×. Ross Stores, Inc. grew revenue faster over the last twelve months: 14.0% against 10.9%. Ross Stores, Inc. has the higher net margin (10.9% vs 5.85%) and the higher return on invested capital (60.6% vs 19.3%). Across the 22 metrics below, Ross Stores, Inc. leads on 13 and Burlington Stores, Inc. on 9.

Valuation

Metric BURL ROST Apparel Retail median
P/E 22.86 28.35 12.56
P/S 1.31 3.06 0.35
P/B 8.00 11.12 1.57
Price to free cash flow 38.85 26.88 11.15
EV/EBITDA 11.94 18.35 7.42
EV/Sales 1.41 2.93 0.51
Earnings yield 4.37% 3.53% 5.76%
Free cash flow yield 2.57% 3.72% 4.34%

Profitability

Metric BURL ROST Apparel Retail median
Gross margin 44.58% 29.67% 41.90%
Operating margin 8.11% 13.75% 2.50%
Net margin 5.85% 10.85% 3.41%
Free cash flow margin 3.37% 11.38% 2.86%
Return on equity 41.41% 42.63% 7.71%
Return on assets 7.38% 17.45% 2.85%
Return on invested capital 19.27% 60.64% 6.41%

Growth

Metric BURL ROST Apparel Retail median
Revenue growth (TTM) 10.89% 14.02% 4.14%
EPS growth (last fiscal year) 21.92% 4.59% —
Revenue growth, 5-year CAGR 14.95% 12.67% 5.92%
Net income growth, 5-year CAGR 0.00% 90.55% 0.00%

Health

Metric BURL ROST Apparel Retail median
Debt to equity 0.96 0.15 0.01
Current ratio 1.17 1.61 1.54
Net debt to EBITDA 0.66 (0.96) (0.29)

Dividend

Metric BURL ROST Apparel Retail median
Dividend yield — 0.93% 2.94%
Payout ratio 0.00 0.27 0.00

Size

Metric BURL ROST Apparel Retail median
Market cap 16.01b 75.15b 358.41m

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