BURLINGTON STORES, INC.
At today's price, BURLINGTON STORES, INC. (BURL) is priced for today's economics sustained for ~9.6 years. boothcheck doesn't publish a fair value or a price target; it shows what the price assumes, so you can judge whether that bar is too high. Built from SEC EDGAR filings.
At about $337, Burlington trades near 49 times company-wide operating income. Inverted, the price asks the chain to hold growth near its self-funding ceiling for roughly a decade, a bet that the model flags as high, with the stock's own multiple stretched well above its history. Only the growth-DCF method reaches the price; the asset, earnings-power, and peer-multiple methods all land below it. The recent results are strong. First-quarter fiscal 2026 net sales rose 14%, comparable store sales r
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605 institutional managers reported holding BURL in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. Together they hold about 91% of the company; the top 10 hold 49%. 117 opened new positions that quarter. Held by BlackRock, Vanguard Group, Morgan Stanley, among others. On the short side, 2.5M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 4% of shares outstanding (2.9 days of typical volume to cover).
Quarterly 13F filings arrive up to 45 days after quarter end, so the picture is never current (filed through 2026-05-29). Nothing here is investment advice.
BURL has cut its share count 5.8% over the past five years, spending $1.48B on repurchases. It pays no dividend. Cash returned over the past three years: $858.77M in repurchases.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
No open-market insider buys on file at BURL over the trailing three years. Absence is a fact about the company, not a signal. 17 officers and directors are on file.
Code P open-market purchases from SEC Form 4 filings, non-derivative, excluding scheduled 10b5-1 plans. Nothing here is investment advice.
BURL's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-08-25 | -9.2% | -24.5% |
| 2023-11-22 | +25.6% | +11.1% |
| 2024-03-16 | +5.0% | -11.4% |
| 2024-05-31 | +19.8% | +4.1% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
BURL's latest 8-K filings: 2026-05-28 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2026-05-26 (items 5.07); 2026-03-13 (items 8.01, 9.01); 2026-03-05 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2025-11-25 (items 2.02, 9.01).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Nothing here is investment advice.
Last analyzed: June 27, 2026
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