BURLBurlington Stores, Inc.
Is the price fair?
The yardsticks disagree: cheap against its own 5-year P/E range (14th percentile) but the cash-flow math implies demanding growth. Treat as fair, not cheap.
Priced for ~18% a year FCF growth. The price demands more than its three-year revenue growth of 10% a year, priced for acceleration.
Cheap vs its own history: P/E 24.9 vs a 31.4 median over 37 quarters (−21% vs median).
Sector median 16.2× across 156 covered peers. EV/EBIT counts debt as part of the price, so a cash-rich and a borrowed company can be compared on the same footing.
Unless marked, from derived, as of Aug 1, 2026.
Against the whole market›
Percentile against every name Ryufin tracks. Higher is better; the tick marks the middle of the market. Context, not one of the checks above.
Where this answer is blind. The growth-implied estimate assumes a fixed discount rate; capital-heavy sectors look structurally rich on it.
What BURL's price assumes
Burlington Stores, Inc. trades at 24.9× earnings against 12.8× for the median Apparel Retail name, more expensive than its own group.
Trailing P/E · Apparel Retail median 12.8 · 1.94× the median: the market pays up for this one
- Price / sales
- 1.67
Price / sales · today's price, trailing year to Aug 1, 2026
- Free cash flow yield
- 2.0%
Free cash flow yield · Apparel Retail median 9.7%
- Growth the price implies
- +18%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for +18% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; the business has delivered +5.1% a year over the last three.
Details›
- Price / booktoday's price, trailing year to Aug 1, 2026
- 10.2
- EV / EBITtoday's price, trailing year to Aug 1, 2026
- 23.0
- EV / salestoday's price, trailing year to Aug 1, 2026
- 1.77
- Consumer Cyclical median P/E321 names
- 17.8
- Apparel Retail median P/E19 names
- 12.8
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $413M
- Market capitalisation
- $20.4B
- 3-year revenue growth
- +10%
- 3-year free cash flow growth
- +5.1%
| Method | Per share |
|---|---|
| Its own P/E history, lower quartile | $316.18 |
| Its own P/E history, median | $349.60 |
| Its own P/E history, upper quartile | $427.19 |
| 52-week range | $227.41 – $371.35 |
| Today | $276.87 |
Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.