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.
Where CASY and ROST diverge most: on debt / equity, CASY reads 0.59 and ROST reads 0.15; on ev/ebitda, CASY reads 56.7 and ROST reads 17.3. The rest of the comparable metrics sit closer together. On valuation, today's CASY price has a different growth bar priced in than ROST (+11.2% implied for CASY vs +17.4% for ROST); the higher figure is the steeper assumption to clear, not a better or worse stock. The bull and bear cases for each are in their full reports below.
| Metric | CASY | ROST |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $646.50 | $222.36 |
| Market cap | $24.0B | $71.0B |
| Sector | Retail | Retail |
| Stage | Growth | Growth |
| Implied growth (priced in) | +11.2% | +17.4% |
| P/E | 31.1 | 26.9 |
| P/B | 5.87 | 10.53 |
| P/S | 1.29 | 2.90 |
| EV/EBITDA | 56.7 | 17.3 |
| Revenue growth | +13.3% | +14.1% |
| Operating margin | — | 17.6% |
| Net margin | 4.1% | 10.8% |
| Return on equity | 18.9% | 39.4% |
| Return on assets | 8.5% | 16.6% |
| Return on invested capital | — | 32.6% |
| FCF yield | 2.7% | 3.9% |
| Dividend yield | 0.2% | 0.7% |
| Debt / equity | 0.59 | 0.15 |
| Current ratio | 1.02 | 1.61 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 5.54 | 8.45 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 7 / 9 | 8 / 9 |
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