COSTCO WHOLESALE CORP /NEW vs Ollie’s Bargain Outlet Holdings, Inc., two Discount Stores stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Where COST and OLLI diverge most: on debt / equity, COST reads 0.17 and OLLI reads 0.00; on implied growth (priced in), COST reads +28.2% and OLLI reads +0.5%. The rest of the comparable metrics sit closer together. On valuation, today's COST price has a different growth bar priced in than OLLI (+28.2% implied for COST vs +0.5% for OLLI); the higher figure is the steeper assumption to clear, not a better or worse stock. What COST's price implies is a demanding bet versus history and the cohort (whole-company basis). What OLLI'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 | COST | OLLI |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $951.61 | $73.46 |
| Market cap | $422.9B | $4.5B |
| Sector | Discount Stores | Discount Stores |
| Stage | Mature | Growth |
| Implied growth (priced in) | +28.2% | +0.5% |
| P/E | 47.9 | 18.2 |
| P/B | 12.62 | 2.38 |
| P/S | 1.44 | 1.65 |
| EV/EBITDA | 31.5 | 11.7 |
| Revenue growth | +9.3% | +16.8% |
| Gross margin | — | 41.9% |
| Operating margin | 4.0% | 10.6% |
| Net margin | 3.0% | 9.1% |
| Return on equity | 26.4% | 13.2% |
| Return on assets | 10.2% | 8.3% |
| Return on invested capital | 22.6% | 12.4% |
| FCF yield | 2.1% | 4.7% |
| Dividend yield | 0.5% | 1.4% |
| Debt / equity | 0.17 | 0.00 |
| Current ratio | 1.07 | 2.32 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 8.77 | 4.43 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 6 / 9 | 6 / 9 |
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