COPART, INC. vs The TJX Companies, Inc., two Retail stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Where CPRT and TJX diverge most: on debt / equity, CPRT reads 0.00 and TJX reads 0.27; on revenue growth, CPRT reads +0.4% and TJX reads +7.7%. The rest of the comparable metrics sit closer together. On valuation, today's CPRT price has a different growth bar priced in than TJX (+6.6% implied for CPRT vs +22.6% for TJX); the higher figure is the steeper assumption to clear, not a better or worse stock. What CPRT's price implies is a bet that sits within the historical range (whole-company basis). What TJX's price implies is a somewhat stretched bet versus history (whole-company basis). The bull and bear cases for each are in their full reports below.
| Metric | CPRT | TJX |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $27.32 | $138.77 |
| Market cap | $25.8B | $155.0B |
| Sector | Retail | Retail |
| Stage | Mature | Mature |
| Implied growth (priced in) | +6.6% | +22.6% |
| P/E | 17.6 | 25.7 |
| P/B | 2.83 | 14.55 |
| P/S | 5.52 | 2.49 |
| EV/EBITDA | 12.6 | 115.1 |
| Revenue growth | +0.4% | +7.7% |
| Operating margin | 32.0% | — |
| Net margin | 31.8% | 9.7% |
| Return on equity | 16.3% | 57.0% |
| Return on assets | 14.8% | 16.4% |
| Return on invested capital | 14.7% | — |
| FCF yield | 4.9% | 3.8% |
| Dividend yield | — | 1.2% |
| Debt / equity | 0.00 | 0.27 |
| Current ratio | 7.91 | 1.15 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 8.28 | 8.12 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 6 / 9 | 7 / 9 |
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