Ross Stores, Inc.
At today's price, Ross Stores, Inc. (ROST) is priced for +22.9% 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.
• Ross runs the off-price model at scale on a $23.8B revenue base, turning opportunistic buying into a 12% operating margin and a 36.7% return on equity, with a net cash position and a share count falling about 2% a year. • The most recent quarter delivered comparable store sales up 17%, the strongest in the company's roughly 40-year history, on total sales of $6.0 billion [Source: Ross Stores Q1 2026 earnings release, May 2026]. • The watch item is tariffs: management flagged a $0.11 to $0.16 p
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1,305 institutional managers reported holding ROST in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. Together they hold about 86% of the company; the top 10 hold 41%. 203 opened new positions that quarter. Held by Vanguard Group, BlackRock, State Street, among others. On the short side, 10.7M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 3% of shares outstanding (3.7 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.
ROST has cut its share count 9.6% over the past five years, spending $4.97B on repurchases. It pays a dividend, and has paid one every year in our records (17 and counting), raised 5 years straight; the current rate is $1.62 a share annually. Cash returned over the past three years: $1.50B in dividends and $3.13B in repurchases.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
Open-market insider buys at ROST over the trailing three years: 2024: 1 buy totaling $5k. 19 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.
ROST's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-06-08 | -3.0% | +10.3% |
| 2023-09-07 | +0.0% | +2.5% |
| 2023-12-07 | +3.9% | +10.9% |
| 2024-04-03 | -1.2% | +2.0% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
ROST's latest 8-K filings: 2026-05-27 (items 5.07); 2026-05-21 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2026-03-03 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2025-11-24 (items 5.02, 7.01, 9.01); 2025-11-20 (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 28, 2026
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