CASEY’S GENERAL STORES, INC. vs The Home Depot, Inc., two Retail stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Where CASY and HD diverge most: on ev/ebitda, CASY reads 213.5 and HD reads 12.6; on dividend yield, CASY reads 0.3% and HD reads 3.0%. The rest of the comparable metrics sit closer together. On valuation, today's CASY price has a different growth bar priced in than HD (+11.4% implied for CASY vs +5.3% for HD); the higher figure is the steeper assumption to clear, not a better or worse stock. What HD's price implies is a bet that sits within the historical range (whole-company basis). The bull and bear cases for each are in their full reports below.
| Metric | CASY | HD |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $615.56 | $308.75 |
| Market cap | $22.9B | $307.5B |
| Sector | Retail | Retail |
| Stage | Growth | Mature |
| Implied growth (priced in) | +11.4% | +5.3% |
| P/E | 29.6 | 21.6 |
| P/B | 5.58 | 18.51 |
| P/S | 1.22 | 1.82 |
| EV/EBITDA | 213.5 | 12.6 |
| Revenue growth | +13.3% | +2.4% |
| Gross margin | — | 33.7% |
| Operating margin | — | 14.3% |
| Net margin | 4.1% | 8.4% |
| Return on equity | 18.9% | 85.6% |
| Return on assets | 8.5% | 13.0% |
| Return on invested capital | — | 76.0% |
| FCF yield | 2.8% | 4.9% |
| Dividend yield | 0.3% | 3.0% |
| Debt / equity | 0.59 | 0.26 |
| Current ratio | 1.02 | 1.08 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 5.41 | 5.03 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 7 / 9 | 8 / 9 |
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