CASEY’S GENERAL STORES, INC. vs WILLIAMS-SONOMA, INC., two Retail stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Casey's sells fuel and convenience-store staples from over two thousand locations, a $29.0B operator whose net margin sits at 4.07% because pumping gas is a low-take business. Williams-Sonoma sells home furnishings under its own brands, a $28.7B retailer keeping 13.81% of every sale, more than three times Casey's rate. The furniture seller carries no net debt, while Casey's runs 0.62 debt to equity to fund its store buildout. On earnings Casey's asks 40.65 times against Williams-Sonoma's 26.82. Both return cash, Williams-Sonoma at 3.81% free cash yield versus Casey's 2.49%. One turns pennies on gallons; the other pockets dollars on sofas.
Comparison updated 2026-07-11.
| Metric | CASY | WSM |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $819.40 | $221.72 |
| Market cap | $30.5B | $26.6B |
| Sector | Retail | Retail |
| Stage | Mature | Mature |
| Implied growth (priced in) | — | +33.2% |
| P/E | 42.8 | 24.9 |
| P/B | 7.72 | 14.22 |
| P/S | 1.74 | 3.37 |
| EV/EBITDA | 297.6 | 17.6 |
| Revenue growth | +10.1% | +1.8% |
| Gross margin | — | 44.0% |
| Operating margin | — | 16.2% |
| Net margin | 4.1% | 13.8% |
| Return on equity | 18.1% | 58.2% |
| Return on assets | 8.0% | 21.5% |
| Return on invested capital | — | 58.7% |
| FCF yield | 2.4% | 4.1% |
| Dividend yield | 0.2% | 1.2% |
| Debt / equity | 0.62 | 0.00 |
| Current ratio | 1.01 | 1.33 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 6.26 | 7.26 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 8 / 9 | 4 / 9 |
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