ROST
ROSS STORES, INC.Evidence as of 2026-09-03The desk's Snapshot
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Overview · ROSS STORES, INC.
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 brand names in the United States. Its stores primarily offer apparel, accessories, footwear, and home fashions. The company's Ross Dress for Less stores sell its products at department and specialty stores primarily to middle income households; and dd's DISCOUNT…
Management team
- Mr. Gary L. Cribb · Senior Group Executive Vice President of Stores & Loss PreventionFind on LinkedIn
- Mr. James S. Fassio · Chief Development OfficerFind on LinkedIn
- Mr. Adam M. Orvos · Executive VP & CFOFind on LinkedIn
- Mr. Michael J. Hartshorn · Group President, COO & DirectorFind on LinkedIn
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Moneyta sentiment
Where the published evidence leans after the desk debated it, not a rating or a recommendation.
+0.3 on a −2 to +2 scale.
What builds the score
Solid bars are analyst rubric scores; faded bars are computed directly from data. Claims dropped in debate count for nothing; weakened claims count at half weight.
Editor's note
Written after the debate settled. The rest of the page is the evidence behind it.
The evidence balance is Mixed (+0.3 of a possible +2; was +0.3 before debate) · confidence high. Revenue rose from $6,010,476,000 in Q1 2026 (fiscal quarter ended 2026-05-15) to $6,264,886,000 in Q2 2026 (fiscal quarter ended 2026-08-14), a quarter‑over‑quarter increase of $253,441,000. Revenue in Q3 2025 (fiscal quarter ended 2025-11-14) was $5,600,946,000, which is $409,530,000 lower than the Q1 2026 level.
Operating income increased from $804,026,000 in Q1 2026 to $1,103,618,000 in Q2 2026, lifting operating margin from about 13.4% to about 17.6% on those quarter revenues. Net income rose from $649,964,000 to $851,299,000 and diluted EPS climbed from $2.02 to $2.66 over the same pair of quarters. Common shares outstanding trended lower (322,356,795 → 320,781,076 → 319,453,110) and the company reported $318,750,000 of repurchases in Q1 2026. Long‑term debt was essentially flat at about $1,018,187,000 (as of 2026-05-02) and $1,018,512,000 (as of 2026-08-01).
How this note was made
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Reads the XBRL figures companies file with the SEC (revenue, margins, income, debt and share count, quarter by quarter) and reports which way the trend is running.
Revenue was $6,010,476,000 in the fiscal Q1 2026 quarter (2026-02-01 to 2026-05-02, 3mo) and $6,264,886,000 in the fiscal Q2 2026 quarter (2026-05-03 to 2026-08-01, 3mo), an increase of $253,441,000 quarter-over-quarter.
XBRL companyfacts · 0000745732-26-000032Revenue in fiscal Q3 2025 (2025-08-03 to 2025-11-01, 3mo) was $5,600,946,000, which is $409,530,000 lower than revenue in fiscal Q1 2026 (2026-02-01 to 2026-05-02, 3mo).
XBRL companyfacts · 0000745732-25-000061Reads the filings themselves, above all the year-over-year diff of Item 1A risk factors: which risks a company added, dropped or quietly reworded since its last annual report.
Which filings the desk reads
The desk reads the annual 10-K in full: its risk factors, and how they changed since last year. Quarterly 10-Qs and event filings (8-Ks, insider Form 4s) are listed for context but not read line by line: the 10-K is where the material risk disclosures live. A brand-new company, or one we have only just begun tracking, may have no annual report on file yet; its risk analysis fills in once that lands.
An 8-K for ROSS STORES, INC. was filed on 20 August 2026 under the 8-K filed 20 August 2026 and a primary exhibit URL is listed for that filing.
8-K filed 2026-08-20A Form 10-Q for ROSS STORES, INC. was filed on 1 September 2026 under the 10-Q filed 1 September 2026, and its parse status is noted as pending in the provided evidence.
10-Q filed 2026-09-01Reads the signal panel above (momentum, volatility, drawdown, relative strength and beta) and ranks each against the whole research universe rather than judging it in isolation.
The 12_1 momentum measure is +84.9%, which ranks in the 91th percentile of the 547-stock research universe as of 2026-09-02.
Moneyta signal set · 2026-09-02weakened in debateA golden cross is present and price is +9.2% above the 200-day simple moving average as of 2026-09-02.
Moneyta signal set · 2026-09-02Reads which funds hold the name and at what weight, plus insider Form 4 filings, to show the exposure you may already carry through index funds.
As of 2026-09-02T13:45:47.228469+00:00, ROST appears as a holding in the ETF with ticker IVV at a weight of 0.11% of that fund.
ETF constituents · market dataA 0.11% weight in IVV represents a small position within that fund, which by diversification principles indicates modest passive exposure to ROST from this single ETF holding.
ETF constituents · market dataReads recent headlines that are genuinely about this company, ignoring rating chatter and market-wide stories. Findings argue in the debate but never move the sentiment score.
A headline reports Ross Stores' quarterly sales of $6.265 billion and net income of $851 million.
News · kalkinemedia.com · 2026-09-02Another headline states Ross Stores reported Q2 FY2026 revenue of $6.26 billion and strong earnings growth.
News · kalkinemedia.com · 2026-09-01Reads parsed Forms 3/4/5: who bought or sold, at what size, and whether a 10b5-1 plan was involved. Flags clustered open-market officer buying; treats plan sales as routine and never counts a fund or 10%-holder as an officer.
No insider transactions on file in the trailing 180 days.
Reads the implied-expectations math built from the company's own filings (the growth rate today's price would justify, and the multiples beside it) and argues whether the market's bar looks high or low for this business. Never turns the math into a target.
The model shows an implied free-cash-flow (FCF) growth rate of 36.43% that today's price would justify under the stated discount and terminal assumptions.
Valuation inputs · SEC XBRL + stored EOD closeTrailing twelve‑month FCF is $1,307,963,000 and FCF per share is $4.0944.
Valuation inputs · SEC XBRL + stored EOD closeDebate and risk review
A bull and a bear contest the claims and the chair rules on each; the risk review stress-tests what survived.
A bull and a bear argue the analysts' claims across two rounds, then a chair rules on each one. Only what survives feeds the score. The argument is shown, not hidden, so you can judge the reasoning yourself.
Several company-level facts in the record jointly support a favorable read: sequential revenue growth across Q1→Q2 FY2026, a material rise in operating income and operating margin, higher net income and EPS, and active share repurchases that lowered share count — each point is directly reported in filings and headlines. Market signals align with those fundamentals: strong 12-month momentum ranking, a golden-cross technical condition, and multiple sell‑side buy reiterations in the street consensus provide corroborating market and analyst context. The bear case leans on valuation metrics and higher short‑term volatility; while those valuation items are clearly sourced and merit attention, the operating improvement, buybacks, and institutional inflows described in the evidence reduce the force of a pure multiples-based critique when viewed as contemporaneous company-specific developments. Evidence strength is strongest for the reported quarter-by-quarter profitability and EPS improvements (filings and news), moderately strong for the technical/momentum signals and institutional activity (signals and news), and strong but cautionary for the valuation model outputs which accurately reflect current price-level math but do not invalidate the company-level performance facts.
Chair's verdict, claim by claim
Fragility · computed, not argued
balanced0.35
32 surviving claims rest on 15 distinct sources; the heaviest analyst carries 25% of them, and 97% of what the desk raised survived the debate.
The read rests on a moderate breadth of source types, which helps support multiple independent data points, but a quarter of surviving claims coming from a single analyst increases reliance on that contributor's interpretations. The very high debate-survival rate means few claims were successfully challenged during review, so treat the set as internally consistent but somewhat fragile to any error or omission tied to that key analyst or to any single dominant source.
Peer context · computed, not argued
12-1 momentum ranks 1st of 2 in Apparel Retail (as of 2026-09-02).
90-day volatility ranks 2nd of 2 in Apparel Retail (as of 2026-09-02).
Disconfirming evidence · base rates · falsifiers
Context
Outside consensus, and where this name already sits in your own portfolio.
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What this was built from
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9 filings· 3 cited
SEC XBRL filings
Quarterly figures as filed with the SEC, read straight from EDGAR's structured data, not retyped or estimated.
Read by Mercer+1.1 to the score
2 documents
SEC filing documents
The filings themselves, including the year-over-year comparison of Item 1A risk factors.
Read by Oakes+0.0 to the score
1 signal set
Moneyta signal set
Computed from our own end-of-day price history and ranked against the whole research universe. No AI involved.
Read by Nash−0.1 to the score
1 holdings record
Fund holdings
Which funds hold this name and at what weight, plus insider Form 4 filings.
Read by Ellis+0.0 to the score
8 headlines· 2 cited
News coverage
Recent headlines about this company, rating chatter excluded and nothing published after the report date.
Read by Yatesnothing survived
1 computation
Valuation inputs
TTM cash-flow figures from the company's own XBRL filings, priced with the stored closing price. Implied growth and multiples only; no fair-value dollar figure reaches the desk, by design.
Read by Archercontext only
1 record· 0 cited
Company profile
Sector, industry and company details.
1 record· 0 cited
Analyst consensus
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Written by AI, checked against sources
The analysts, the bull–bear debate and the editor's note are AI agents reading only the evidence listed on this page. They can misread a filing or a headline, which is why every claim cites a source you can open and check yourself. The sentiment score is arithmetic over the claims that survived the debate, not a language model's opinion.
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