Is the business good?
How good a business is KSS?
Kohl's Corporation earns 9.7% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so the business is worth more the bigger it gets.
9.7%
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 0.67 points above what the capital costs: growth creates value
- Operating margin
- 4.0%
Operating margin · Consumer Cyclical median 8.4% · 12 months to Q1 2026
- Cash conversion
- 3.87×
Cash conversion · 0.93× a year ago · every dollar of reported profit arrived as cash, and more
- Share count, year on year
- +0.90%
Share count, year on year · flat: no meaningful dilution
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | −1.6% |
| FY2021 | 8.6% |
| FY2022 | 1.4% |
| FY2023 | 4.1% |
| FY2024 | 2.7% |
| FY2025 | 4.0% |
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- Gross margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 41%
- Operating margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 4.0%
- Net margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 1.8%
- Free cash flow margin
- 6.8%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $15.5B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $1.05B
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $272M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 9.7%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion from the cash flow statement.