DILLARD’S, INC. vs Five Below, Inc., two Discount Stores stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Where DDS and FIVE diverge most: on revenue growth, DDS reads +0.5% and FIVE reads +25.7%; on ev/ebitda, DDS reads 52.8 and FIVE reads 13.2. The rest of the comparable metrics sit closer together. On valuation, today's DDS price has a different growth bar priced in than FIVE (+11.4% implied for DDS vs +23.9% for FIVE); the higher figure is the steeper assumption to clear, not a better or worse stock. What FIVE'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 | DDS | FIVE |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $650.14 | $244.66 |
| Market cap | $10.2B | $13.6B |
| Sector | Discount Stores | Discount Stores |
| Stage | Mature | Growth |
| Implied growth (priced in) | +11.4% | +23.9% |
| P/E | 14.9 | 21.9 |
| P/B | 4.79 | 5.48 |
| P/S | 1.54 | 2.55 |
| EV/EBITDA | 52.8 | 13.2 |
| Revenue growth | +0.5% | +25.7% |
| Gross margin | 39.1% | — |
| Operating margin | — | 21.8% |
| Net margin | 10.3% | 11.7% |
| Return on equity | 32.1% | 25.0% |
| Return on assets | 18.2% | 11.7% |
| Return on invested capital | — | 24.1% |
| FCF yield | 6.3% | 4.4% |
| Dividend yield | 4.8% | — |
| Debt / equity | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Current ratio | 3.03 | 2.22 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 10.00 | 4.99 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 5 / 9 | 5 / 9 |
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