Five Below, Inc. vs PriceSmart, Inc., two Discount Stores stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Five Below sells cheap trend goods to US teens; PriceSmart runs membership warehouses across Latin America. Five Below keeps a far wider net margin, 8.67% to PriceSmart's 2.82%, since a warehouse club deliberately marks goods up barely and earns on the fee. Five Below also generates more free cash, 4.82% to 1.43%, and earns more on equity, 19.05% to 11.7%. On price they sit close on earnings, 23.76 times for Five Below and 38.68 for PriceSmart, with Five Below higher on book, 4.53 to 4.45 nearly matched. Five Below runs debt-free; PriceSmart carries 0.15. PriceSmart pays 0.64% while Five Below pays nothing.
Comparison updated 2026-07-11.
| Metric | FIVE | PSMT |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $189.25 | $196.71 |
| Market cap | $10.5B | $6.0B |
| Sector | Discount Stores | Discount Stores |
| Stage | Growth | Mature |
| Implied growth (priced in) | — | +18.6% |
| P/E | 23.9 | 37.8 |
| P/B | 4.55 | 4.28 |
| P/S | 2.07 | 1.05 |
| EV/EBITDA | 13.1 | 17.0 |
| Revenue growth | +25.9% | +10.2% |
| Operating margin | 12.0% | 4.4% |
| Net margin | 8.7% | 2.8% |
| Return on equity | 19.1% | 11.5% |
| Return on assets | 8.7% | 6.4% |
| Return on invested capital | 18.4% | 12.4% |
| FCF yield | 4.8% | 1.2% |
| Dividend yield | — | 0.6% |
| Debt / equity | 0.00 | 0.18 |
| Current ratio | 2.10 | 1.28 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 4.26 | 6.23 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 6 / 9 | 6 / 9 |
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