Burlington Stores, Inc. (BURL) vs The TJX Companies, Inc. (TJX)

Burlington Stores, Inc. and The TJX Companies, Inc. are both Apparel Retail companies. The TJX Companies, Inc. is the larger, with a market value of $145.4B against $16.0B — 9.1× the size. Burlington Stores, Inc. trades at the lower P/E: 22.9× against 24.0×. Burlington Stores, Inc. grew revenue faster over the last twelve months: 10.9% against 7.66%. The TJX Companies, Inc. has the higher net margin (9.73% vs 5.85%) and the higher return on invested capital (65.8% vs 19.3%). Across the 22 metrics below, Burlington Stores, Inc. leads on 11 and The TJX Companies, Inc. on 11.

Valuation

Metric BURL TJX Apparel Retail median
P/E 22.86 24.04 12.56
P/S 1.31 2.30 0.35
P/B 8.00 13.48 1.57
Price to free cash flow 38.85 24.44 11.15
EV/EBITDA 11.94 14.85 7.42
EV/Sales 1.41 2.25 0.51
Earnings yield 4.37% 4.16% 5.76%
Free cash flow yield 2.57% 4.09% 4.34%

Profitability

Metric BURL TJX Apparel Retail median
Gross margin 44.58% 32.00% 41.90%
Operating margin 8.11% 12.69% 2.50%
Net margin 5.85% 9.73% 3.41%
Free cash flow margin 3.37% 9.42% 2.86%
Return on equity 41.41% 62.17% 7.71%
Return on assets 7.38% 17.33% 2.85%
Return on invested capital 19.27% 65.80% 6.41%

Growth

Metric BURL TJX Apparel Retail median
Revenue growth (TTM) 10.89% 7.66% 4.14%
EPS growth (last fiscal year) 21.92% 14.32% —
Revenue growth, 5-year CAGR 14.95% 13.44% 5.92%
Net income growth, 5-year CAGR 0.00% 127.58% 0.00%

Health

Metric BURL TJX Apparel Retail median
Debt to equity 0.96 0.27 0.01
Current ratio 1.17 1.15 1.54
Net debt to EBITDA 0.66 (0.39) (0.29)

Dividend

Metric BURL TJX Apparel Retail median
Dividend yield — 1.33% 2.94%
Payout ratio 0.00 0.36 0.00

Size

Metric BURL TJX Apparel Retail median
Market cap 16.01b 145.42b 358.41m

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