CASEY’S GENERAL STORES, INC. vs Ross Stores, Inc., two Retail stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Casey's runs convenience stores and fuel pumps across the middle of the country, a $29.0B chain where thin fuel margins pull net profit down to 4.07% of sales. Ross Stores sells cast-off branded apparel at cut prices, a $68.5B off-price operator keeping more than twice as much, 9.74% net, and returning 36.73% on equity. Casey's still earns a respectable 18.08% on its own equity and trades at 40.65 times earnings, richer than Ross at 29.78. The convenience model leans on foot traffic and prepared food to lift a low-margin base; the off-price model leans on buying cheap and turning inventory fast. Both work, by different arithmetic.
Comparison updated 2026-07-11.
| Metric | CASY | ROST |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $819.40 | $222.82 |
| Market cap | $30.5B | $71.6B |
| Sector | Retail | Retail |
| Stage | Mature | Mature |
| Implied growth (priced in) | — | +24.3% |
| P/E | 42.8 | 31.1 |
| P/B | 7.72 | 11.35 |
| P/S | 1.74 | 3.01 |
| EV/EBITDA | 297.6 | 20.0 |
| Revenue growth | +10.1% | +11.9% |
| Operating margin | — | 13.4% |
| Net margin | 4.1% | 9.7% |
| Return on equity | 18.1% | 36.7% |
| Return on assets | 8.0% | 14.9% |
| Return on invested capital | — | 29.8% |
| FCF yield | 2.4% | 3.7% |
| Dividend yield | 0.2% | 0.7% |
| Debt / equity | 0.62 | 0.20 |
| Current ratio | 1.01 | 1.54 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 6.26 | 8.35 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 8 / 9 | 7 / 9 |
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