PriceSmart, Inc. vs TARGET CORPORATION, two Discount Stores stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
PriceSmart runs membership warehouses across Latin America; Target runs the general-merchandise big-box across the US. Their net margins both run thin, 2.82% and 3.24%, but Target earns far more on equity, 21.05% to 11.7%. Target is also the cheaper, cash-richer name: 18.54 times earnings and 3.90 times book against PriceSmart's 38.68 and 4.45, a 4.74% free cash yield to 1.43%, and a 3.24% dividend to 0.64%. PriceSmart carries lighter debt, 0.15 to 0.87. The pricey emerging-market club still scaling versus the cheaper, higher-returning domestic box that hands back more cash.
Comparison updated 2026-07-11.
| Metric | PSMT | TGT |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $196.71 | $135.10 |
| Market cap | $6.0B | $61.6B |
| Sector | Discount Stores | Discount Stores |
| Stage | Mature | Mature |
| Implied growth (priced in) | +18.6% | +3.5% |
| P/E | 37.8 | 17.9 |
| P/B | 4.28 | 3.76 |
| P/S | 1.05 | 0.58 |
| EV/EBITDA | 17.0 | 9.1 |
| Revenue growth | +10.2% | +0.7% |
| Operating margin | 4.4% | 4.5% |
| Net margin | 2.8% | 3.2% |
| Return on equity | 11.5% | 21.1% |
| Return on assets | 6.4% | 6.0% |
| Return on invested capital | 12.4% | 11.8% |
| FCF yield | 1.2% | 4.9% |
| Dividend yield | 0.6% | 3.4% |
| Debt / equity | 0.18 | 0.87 |
| Current ratio | 1.28 | 0.93 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 6.23 | 8.10 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 6 / 9 | 5 / 9 |
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