DICK'S Sporting Goods, Inc. vs Ross Stores, Inc., two Retail stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Dick's Sporting Goods runs large athletic-gear stores, a $21.6B retailer keeping 4.71% of sales with no net debt and a 2.03% dividend. Ross Stores sells off-price apparel from smaller-format stores, a $68.5B chain keeping more than double, 9.74%, and returning a strong 36.73% on equity against Dick's 16.14%. Ross yields more free cash too, 3.84% to 1.86%. Dick's trades a touch cheaper at 23.3 times earnings versus 29.78. The sporting-goods seller carries full-price inventory and a bigger payout; the off-price chain wins on margin and turns by buying leftover branded stock cheap. Both avoid leverage entirely.
Comparison updated 2026-07-11.
| Metric | DKS | ROST |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $217.90 | $222.82 |
| Market cap | $19.7B | $71.6B |
| Sector | Retail | Retail |
| Stage | Growth | Mature |
| Implied growth (priced in) | +9.3% | +24.3% |
| P/E | 21.2 | 31.1 |
| P/B | 3.52 | 11.35 |
| P/S | 1.03 | 3.01 |
| EV/EBITDA | 12.8 | 20.0 |
| Revenue growth | +41.0% | +11.9% |
| Gross margin | 32.6% | — |
| Operating margin | 8.7% | 13.4% |
| Net margin | 4.7% | 9.7% |
| Return on equity | 16.1% | 36.7% |
| Return on assets | 5.1% | 14.9% |
| Return on invested capital | 15.1% | 29.8% |
| FCF yield | 2.0% | 3.7% |
| Dividend yield | 2.2% | 0.7% |
| Debt / equity | 0.00 | 0.20 |
| Current ratio | 1.50 | 1.54 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 7.88 | 8.35 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 6 / 9 | 7 / 9 |
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