“Distribution costs decreased 60 basis points mainly due to the timing of packaway inventory carrying costs, higher productivity, and tariff-related processing costs in the second quarter of fiscal 2025.”10-Q · Sep 1, 2026 ↗
Ross Stores, Inc.
ROST
Market read
Ross Stores, Inc.'s current read is isolated; its market group is not confirming.
The latest filing evidence is available. 0 of 3 group members are active now; 0 filing-linked outsiders are moving with the group, and 0 of 5 directly disclosed connections are confirming.
- Revenue increased 20.6% versus the comparable filing period.
- ROST's market-adjusted activity becomes unusual and at least one connected name confirms.
Invalidation: The isolated read changes if ROST's group or a disclosed connection begins moving with it.
Research brief
The story so far
The latest filing evidence is available. 0 of 3 group members are active now; 0 filing-linked outsiders are moving with the group, and 0 of 5 directly disclosed connections are confirming.
- Revenue increased 20.6% versus the comparable filing period.
- Operating margin improved 1.2 percentage points.
- Net income increased 35.6% versus the comparable filing period.
No thresholded adverse filing evidence is available yet.
- ROST's market-adjusted activity becomes unusual and at least one connected name confirms.
Company research
Understand the business, not just the ticker
Use the company’s filings to identify the few operating, demand, cost, capital and regulatory variables that determine its earnings power.
- Which operating variable is changing?
- Is that change durable, cyclical or one-off?
- What evidence would disprove the current interpretation?
- Latest annual revenue changed +7.7% year over year.
- Operating cash flow covered net income at 1.41x in the latest annual period.
- Capital investment and capacity has repeated favorable evidence across 4 filings.
- Tariffs and trade policy has repeated adverse evidence across 5 filings.
- Credit and interest rates has repeated adverse evidence across 4 filings.
- P/E is 219% above the available filing-peer median; determine whether growth and quality justify the difference.
- EV/sales is 625% above the available filing-peer median; determine whether growth and quality justify the difference.
Price as of Sep 11, 2026
230.67Reported annual revenue and per-share history. This is accounting history, not a forecast.
What management says matters
Persistent and emerging business drivers
“22 Investing Activities Net cash used in investing activities for the six month period ended August 1, 2026 increased by approximately $51 million compared to the six month period ended August 2, 2025, due to higher capital expenditures primarily related to t…”10-Q · Sep 1, 2026 ↗
“The decrease in interest income was partially offset by lower interest expense primarily due to the repayment of those Senior Notes.”10-K · Mar 31, 2026 ↗
“Partially offsetting these benefits were higher domestic freight costs of 10 basis points due to increased fuel prices and higher buying costs of 5 basis points from higher incentive compensation expense.”10-Q · Sep 1, 2026 ↗
Valuation discipline
Descriptive valuation snapshot
Price/sales 3.3× · EV/sales 3.1×. Comparisons use only industry-matched filing peers.
Mechanical 2.0-year scenarios are available as editable assumptions, not consensus.
Price action
How the market is pricing the story
Jodie does not have enough daily observations to draw a useful short-term chart for this asset. The latest quoted price was checked 11 Sept, 15:55 GMT-4; this is a coverage limitation, not a flat-price conclusion.
Developments
No sourced recent-development timeline yet
Jodie has not returned a relevant primary source or news item for ROST. This is an evidence-coverage gap, not a conclusion that nothing material happened.
Business and financial condition
Reported financial figures are not available yet
Jodie has not returned structured SEC XBRL fundamentals for this asset. This is a coverage limitation, not an assessment of the business or its financial health.
Latest filing assessment · baseline
Fundamentals strengthened in the latest filing
10-Q filed 2026-06-02 against the comparable filing from 2025-06-11.
What improved
- Revenue increased 20.6% versus the comparable filing period.
- Operating margin improved 1.2 percentage points.
- Net income increased 35.6% versus the comparable filing period.
What weakened
No thresholded deterioration was identified.
Filing receipts
“Operating income as a percentage of sales for the three month period ended May 2, 2026 increased by approximately 120 basis points compared to the three month period ended May 3, 2025, primarily driven by the decrease in cost of goods sold as a percentage of sales period-over-period, partially offset by the increase in SG&A as a percentage of sales period-over-period.”
“Cost of goods sold as a percentage of sales for the three month period ended May 2, 2026 decreased by approximately 145 basis points compared to the three month period ended May 3, 2025, primarily due to an 85 basis point increase in merchandise margin.”
“SG&A as a percentage of sales for the three month period ended May 2, 2026 increased by approximately 25 basis points compared to the three month period ended May 3, 2025, primarily due to higher incentive compensation expense.”
Retrospective baseline calibration. It was generated after the filing date and is not part of Jodie's live track record.
Business ecosystem
The relationships behind ROST
Customers, suppliers, partners and competitors named in company filings—not inferred from headlines.
Depended on by
GIIIG-III Apparel Group, Ltd.distributorJun 8, 2026 ▾
“We also source and sell products to major retailers for their own private label programs.”
Filing peers
Companies whose filings use similar operating language.
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What is moving around it
Live connections
ROST is currently a Early Follower in the organic co-movement group Off-Price Apparel Retail. This group is discovered from market behaviour rather than assigned from an industry taxonomy. 1 filing-linked name are in the relationship map; none is currently confirmed as moving with the group.
Context history
Theme membership history
No durable theme membership has been observed for this name yet.