HOME DEPOT, INC. vs Ross Stores, Inc., two Retail stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Home Depot is the $346.7B big-box leader in home improvement, keeping 8.41% of sales and paying a 2.64% dividend, the largest payout in this pair. Ross Stores is a $68.5B off-price apparel chain keeping 9.74% and returning 36.73% on equity. Home Depot throws off more free cash, 4.13% against Ross's 3.84%, and both carry light debt near 0.25. Home Depot trades cheaper at 24.72 times earnings versus Ross at 29.78. The warehouse retailer serves contractors and weekend projects with a wide aisle of building goods; the discounter serves bargain hunters with a rotating rack of branded castoffs. Both keep leverage modest.
Comparison updated 2026-07-11.
| Metric | HD | ROST |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $343.37 | $222.82 |
| Market cap | $342.0B | $71.6B |
| Sector | Retail | Retail |
| Stage | Mature | Mature |
| Implied growth (priced in) | +8.2% | +24.3% |
| P/E | 24.4 | 31.1 |
| P/B | 24.65 | 11.35 |
| P/S | 2.05 | 3.01 |
| EV/EBITDA | 14.2 | 20.0 |
| Revenue growth | +2.2% | +11.9% |
| Gross margin | 33.0% | — |
| Operating margin | 11.9% | 13.4% |
| Net margin | 8.4% | 9.7% |
| Return on equity | 101.0% | 36.7% |
| Return on assets | 13.0% | 14.9% |
| Return on invested capital | 89.7% | 29.8% |
| FCF yield | 4.2% | 3.7% |
| Dividend yield | 2.7% | 0.7% |
| Debt / equity | 0.25 | 0.20 |
| Current ratio | 1.04 | 1.54 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 5.14 | 8.35 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 8 / 9 | 7 / 9 |
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