Ross Stores, Inc.

ROST · Consumer Cyclical

$222.41
-1.24% today

What a holder would want to know before buying ROST: where the price sits in its own history, how far it has fallen before and whether it recovered, and what the business behind it earns. All of it is arithmetic over free market data — no opinions, no recommendations.

Where the price sits
Low $147.71 · Oct 2025High $255.23 · Aug 2026

Today’s price is 51% above the lowest point of the past year and 13% below the highest.

Over the past year it was cheaper than today on 58% of days and more expensive on 42%. Over the last 10 years: cheaper on 96% of days.

2% above its average price of the last 200 trading days.

How bad does it get

Fell 20% or more 5 times in 10 years. The deepest fall was 52%; the longest took 2.6 years to get back to its peak. Every one recovered.

Now 13% below the Aug 2026 peak.

Dec 2024
−21%back in 10 months
May 2021
−47%back in 2.6 years
Feb 2020
−52%back in 13 months
Nov 2018
−26%back in 7 months
Dec 2016
−24%back in 11 months
What you own

Ross Stores, Inc. · Consumer Cyclical · Apparel Retail · a large company worth $71.34B

Ross Stores, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates off-price retail apparel and home fashion stores under the Ross Dress for Less and dd's DISCOUNTS brands in the United States. The company offers designer…

Is it making money?
2023
2024
2025
2026

revenue profit

Sales of $22.75B in 2026, with $2.15B of profit. Sales grew in 3 of the last 3 years.

Keeps about 11 cents of every dollar of sales as profit.

Is it healthy?
Cash
$4.29B
Debt
$4.74B
Free cash flow / yr
$2.00B

Would need about 2.4 years of free cash flow to repay all its debt.

Is it expensive?

You pay $27 for every $1 of last year’s profit, and $25 for every $1 of profit expected next year.

A high number means buyers expect growth; a low one means they expect little, or fear trouble. Large US companies have averaged roughly 15–20 over the decades.

Pays 0.79% a year in dividends at today’s price · next ex-dividend Sep 8.

What others are doing

20 analysts: 14 say buy, 5 hold, 1 sell. Their average 12-month target is $270.56 (range $187.00–$310.00).

Insiders made 0 purchases and 2 sales in the last 6 months. Executives routinely sell shares they were paid in; buying with their own money is the rarer signal.

Free data from Yahoo Finance, refreshed daily. This is evidence about the business and its price history, not a recommendation.

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