Five Below, Inc. vs TARGET CORPORATION, two Discount Stores stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Five Below sells cheap trend items to teens; Target sells everything to suburban families. Five Below keeps a much wider net margin, 8.67% of sales to Target's 3.24%, and runs entirely without debt while Target carries 0.87 against equity. Target answers with value and cash: a 4.74% free cash yield to Five Below's 4.82% is nearly matched, but Target trades far cheaper, 18.54 times earnings and 3.90 times book against 23.76 and 4.53, and pays a 3.24% dividend while Five Below pays nothing. Returns on equity land close, 21.05% to 19.05%. The debt-free growth story versus the cheaper, dividend-paying general box.
Comparison updated 2026-07-11.
| Metric | FIVE | TGT |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $189.25 | $135.10 |
| Market cap | $10.5B | $61.6B |
| Sector | Discount Stores | Discount Stores |
| Stage | Growth | Mature |
| Implied growth (priced in) | — | +3.5% |
| P/E | 23.9 | 17.9 |
| P/B | 4.55 | 3.76 |
| P/S | 2.07 | 0.58 |
| EV/EBITDA | 13.1 | 9.1 |
| Revenue growth | +25.9% | +0.7% |
| Operating margin | 12.0% | 4.5% |
| Net margin | 8.7% | 3.2% |
| Return on equity | 19.1% | 21.1% |
| Return on assets | 8.7% | 6.0% |
| Return on invested capital | 18.4% | 11.8% |
| FCF yield | 4.8% | 4.9% |
| Dividend yield | — | 3.4% |
| Debt / equity | 0.00 | 0.87 |
| Current ratio | 2.10 | 0.93 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 4.26 | 8.10 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 6 / 9 | 5 / 9 |
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