CTRNCiti Trends, Inc.
Is the price fair?
A demanding price: priced for +21% a year vs +5% a year delivered and at the top of its own P/E range.
Priced for ~21% a year FCF growth. The price demands more than its three-year revenue growth of 5% a year, priced for acceleration.
Expensive vs its own history: P/E 60.2 vs a 17.1 median over 31 quarters (+253% vs median).
Where this answer is blind. The growth-implied estimate assumes a fixed discount rate; capital-heavy sectors look structurally rich on it.
What CTRN's price assumes
Citi Trends, Inc. trades at 60.2× earnings against 12.6× for the median Apparel Retail name, more expensive than its own group.
Trailing P/E · Apparel Retail median 12.6 · 4.77× the median: the market pays up for this one
- Price / sales
- 0.48
Price / sales · as of 2026-Q2
- Free cash flow yield
- 1.5%
Free cash flow yield · Apparel Retail median 9.7%
- Growth the price implies
- +21%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for +21% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; the business has delivered +26% a year over the last three.
Details›
- Price / bookas of 2026-Q2
- 3.24
- EV / EBIToperating margin 0.63%: the multiple describes the denominator
- not meaningful
- EV / salesas of 2026-Q2
- 0.65
- Consumer Cyclical median P/E321 names
- 17.9
- Apparel Retail median P/E19 names
- 12.6
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $6.5M
- Market capitalisation
- $421M
- 3-year revenue growth
- +4.8%
- 3-year free cash flow growth
- +26%
| Method | Per share |
|---|---|
| What its own history would imply | not meaningful, 60.2× today against a 17.1× median |
| 52-week range | $34.92 – $76.20 |
| Today | $50.60 |
Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.