PriceSmart, Inc.
At today's price, PriceSmart, Inc. (PSMT) is priced for +17.7% growth. 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.
- The counterintuitive point is that a 22 times operating-income price embeds about 16% annual operating growth, a pace that looks aggressive for a retailer until you see PriceSmart has actually delivered it. The bet is on duration, not on the rate. - The balance sheet is pristine for a retailer: net cash of about $139 million, no net debt, and interest coverage near 17 times. The growth is being funded internally as the company expands its warehouse club count. - Recent results stayed strong, w
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349 institutional managers reported holding PSMT in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. Together they hold about 89% of the company; the top 10 hold 53%. 45 opened new positions that quarter. Held by BlackRock, Vanguard Group, FMR (Fidelity), among others. On the short side, 1.6M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 5% of shares outstanding (6.5 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.
PSMT has cut its share count 0.6% over the past five years, spending $111.09M on repurchases. It pays a dividend, and has for 13 years running; the current rate is $1.26 a share annually. Cash returned over the past three years: $140.77M in dividends and $95.87M 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 PSMT 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.
PSMT's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-04-11 | +12.7% | -3.8% |
| 2023-07-11 | +2.2% | -0.3% |
| 2023-10-31 | -13.5% | +20.8% |
| 2024-01-10 | +4.5% | +7.4% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
PSMT's latest 8-K filings: 2026-07-08 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2026-04-08 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2026-02-06 (items 5.02, 5.07, 8.01, 9.01); 2026-01-07 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2025-10-30 (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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