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.
Where CASY and WSM diverge most: on debt / equity, CASY reads 0.62 and WSM reads 0.00; on ev/ebitda, CASY reads 315.4 and WSM reads 18.2. The rest of the comparable metrics sit closer together. What WSM'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 | WSM |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $871.68 | $228.56 |
| Market cap | $32.5B | $27.4B |
| Sector | Retail | Retail |
| Stage | Mature | Mature |
| Implied growth (priced in) | — | +28.4% |
| P/E | 45.5 | 25.6 |
| P/B | 8.21 | 14.66 |
| P/S | 1.85 | 3.48 |
| EV/EBITDA | 315.4 | 18.2 |
| 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 | 2.2% | 4.0% |
| Dividend yield | 0.2% | 1.2% |
| Debt / equity | 0.62 | 0.00 |
| Current ratio | 1.01 | 1.33 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 6.49 | 7.42 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 8 / 9 | 4 / 9 |
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