Ross Stores (ROST)
Consumer · NASDAQ · US
Price as at 1 Oct 2026, 00:45 UTC. Quotes are delayed.
Fundamentals
Valuation and ratings
Ross Stores trades at $233.40, which is 18% below the $275.28 our fair value estimate puts on the business. On that measure alone it screens as undervalued, though a valuation model is an argument rather than a measurement, and the market is frequently right about why something is cheap.
Our moat model scores it 68 out of 100, which is a moat, but not a deep one. A moat is a structural reason competitors cannot take the profits away, and it matters more to a long holding period than any single quarter's numbers do.
It changes hands at 31.2 times earnings. Be careful reading that in isolation: for a cyclical business a low P/E arrives at the top of the cycle, when profits are peaking and about to fall, which is exactly when the shares look cheapest and are not.
ROST dividend history
Dividends per share by year
| Year | Total per share | Payments |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 (year to date) | $1.33 | 3 |
| 2025 | $1.62 | 4 |
| 2024 | $1.47 | 4 |
| 2023 | $1.34 | 4 |
| 2022 | $1.24 | 4 |
| 2021 | $1.14 | 4 |
| 2020 | $0.285 | 1 |
| 2019 | $1.02 | 4 |
| 2018 | $0.900 | 4 |
| 2017 | $0.640 | 4 |
| 2016 | $0.540 | 4 |
Split-adjusted amounts in the listing currency, grouped by the calendar year of the ex-dividend date, from the filed record. Growth and streak figures compare complete years only.
ROST earnings and analyst estimates
Recommendation mix, 19 published ratings
Estimates are the published analyst consensus and move often. An earnings date is scheduled, not certain, and a share tends to reprice most violently on the day itself.
About Ross Stores
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 apparel, accessories, footwear, and home-fashioned products for the entire family. It sells its products to middle income households and households with lower to more moderate incomes. Ross Stores, Inc. was incorporated in 1957 and is headquartered in Dublin, California.
Company profile, industry and headcount are as reported by our data provider and can lag a company's own filings by a reporting period. The annual report is the authority.
ROST passes 1 of our 30 screens today
Each screen prints the exact criteria it used, and the circumstances in which it is wrong.
Super investor ownership
16 of the funds we track reported a position in their latest SEC 13F filing. Largest first:
- Cliff Asness, AQR CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC$726.00M · 0.3% of book
- Two Sigma, TWO SIGMA INVESTMENTS, LP$520.68M · 0.4% of book
- D. E. Shaw, D. E. Shaw & Co., Inc.$259.31M · 0.1% of book
- Arrowstreet Capital, ARROWSTREET CAPITAL, LIMITED PARTNERSHIP$258.03M · 0.1% of book
- Burgundy Asset Management, Burgundy Asset Management Ltd.$172.24M · 1.6% of book
A word of warning on reading these figures: a 13F reports the market value of a holding, so a fund that traded nothing at all still appears to have sold when the price fell. We found 102 companies where the standard reading gives the opposite answer. Only the share count is honest.
Politician trades in ROST
Trades in ROST disclosed by members of Congress and executive-branch officials, latest first:
- Dan Newhouse · HouseBuy · $1,001 - $15,000 · traded 18 Aug 2025 · disclosed 17 Sept 2025
- Gary Palmer · HouseBuy · $1,001 - $15,000 · traded 4 Apr 2017 · disclosed 29 Sept 2018
- David B. McKinley · HouseSell · $1,001 - $15,000 · traded 19 Aug 2014 · disclosed 2 Sept 2014
A disclosure reports a value band, not an amount, and is due up to 45 days after the trade; some arrive later. Every filer we track, each with their own page, is on the Congress trading tracker.
ROST peers
The largest companies in the same industry, then in the same sector.
- AMZN Amazon.com, Inc.
- TSLA Tesla, Inc.
- WMT Walmart Inc.
- COST Costco Wholesale Corporation
- KO The Coca-Cola Company
- PG The Procter & Gamble Company
- HM-B.ST H&M
- HD The Home Depot, Inc.
Every consumer company we cover is on the Consumer hub.
Common questions
Is Ross Stores (ROST) undervalued?
Against our fair value estimate of $275.28, ROST at $233.40 is 18% below fair value. That is one model's answer, not a recommendation. It is built from normalized earning power with growth capped deliberately low, which understates companies whose value is mostly future growth.
Which funds own ROST?
16 of the institutions we track reported a position in ROST in their most recent SEC 13F filing. A 13F is filed up to 45 days after quarter end, so it tells you what a fund held then, not what it holds now.
What is ROST's P/E ratio?
ROST trades at 31.2 times earnings. A low P/E is not automatically cheap: on a cyclical company it is usually a warning that earnings are at a peak.
Does Ross Stores (ROST) pay a dividend?
Yes. Ross Stores yields 0.80% at the current share price. It has paid $1.74 per share over the trailing twelve months. It has paid a dividend in each of the last 32 complete calendar years. A dividend is declared by the board and can be cut at any time; a yield is a fact about the current price, not a promise.
Where does SteadyShares get its ROST data?
Fundamentals for ROST come from company filings and exchange data, as listed on NASDAQ; institutional ownership comes from SEC 13F filings. The share price shown was last refreshed on 1 Oct 2026, 00:45 UTC and is delayed. Metrics we do not hold are left out of the page rather than estimated.
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Data from company filings, exchange quotes and SEC EDGAR 13F disclosures. Quotes are delayed. Metrics we do not have are left out rather than estimated. Educational information, not financial advice.