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KOHLS Corp
KSS
$2.1B
Mkt Cap
$17.94
-1.43%
KOHLS Corp (KSS) has a current P/E ratio of 4.2, compared to its historical median P/E of 8.7. The stock is currently considered Cheap based on its historical valuation range.
KOHLS Corp (KSS) has a 5-year average return on invested capital (ROIC) of 13.3%. This indicates solid capital allocation.
KOHLS Corp (KSS) has a market capitalization of $2.0B. It is classified as a mid-cap stock.
Yes, KOHLS Corp (KSS) pays a dividend with a trailing twelve-month yield of 4.87%.
Based on historical P/E analysis, KOHLS Corp (KSS) appears cheap. The current P/E of 4.2 is 52% below its historical median of 8.7. The estimated fair value CAGR (P/E method) is -6.4%.
KOHLS Corp (KSS) operates in the Retail-Department Stores industry, within the Consumer Defensive sector.
KOHLS Corp (KSS) reported annual revenue of $15.5 billion in its most recent fiscal year, based on SEC EDGAR filings.
Kohl’s Corporation (the “Company," “Kohl’s,” "we," "our," or "us") was organized in 1988 and is a Wisconsin corporation. As of February 1, 2025, we operated 1,175 Kohl's stores and a website (www.Kohls.com). Our Kohl's stores and website sell moderately-priced private and national brand apparel, footwear, accessories, beauty, and home products. Our Kohl's stores generally carry a consistent merchandise assortment with some differences attributable to local preferences, store size, and Sephora at Kohl's shop-in-shops ("Sephora shops"). Our website includes merchandise which is available in our stores, as well as merchandise that is available only online. Our merchandise mix includes both national brands and private brands that are available only at Kohl's. Our private portfolio includes well-known established brands such as Apt.
| Metric | TTM | FY2026 | FY2025 | FY2024 | FY2023 | FY2022 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | 15.4B | 15.5B | 16.2B | 17.5B | 18.1B | 19.4B |
| Net Income | 172M | 272M | 109M | 317M | -19M | 938M |
| EPS | $1.48 | $2.38 | $0.98 | $2.85 | $-0.15 | $6.32 |
| Free Cash Flow | 601M | 1.0B | 182M | 591M | -544M | 1.7B |
| ROIC | 7.9% | 10.5% | 7.9% | 11.4% | 4.7% | 32.0% |
| Gross Margin | - | 40.6% | 40.4% | 39.9% | 36.7% | 41.1% |
| Debt/Equity | 0.41 | 0.35 | 0.40 | 0.44 | 0.51 | 0.43 |
| Dividends/Share | $0.87 | $0.50 | $2.00 | $2.00 | $2.00 | $1.00 |
| Operating Income | 525M | 624M | 433M | 717M | 246M | 1.7B |
| Operating Margin | 3.4% | 4.0% | 2.7% | 4.1% | 1.4% | 8.6% |
| ROE | 4.4% | 6.9% | 2.8% | 8.3% | -0.5% | 19.0% |
| Shares Outstanding | 112M | 114M | 111M | 111M | 127M | 148M |
| Metric | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Income Statement | |||||||||||||
| Revenue | 19.0B | 19.2B | 18.7B | 19.1B | 20.2B | 20.0B | 16.0B | 19.4B | 18.1B | 17.5B | 16.2B | 15.5B | 15.4B |
| Gross Margin | 36.4% | 36.1% | 36.1% | 36.2% | 39.7% | 39.2% | 35.1% | 41.1% | 36.7% | 39.9% | 40.4% | 40.6% | N/A |
| R&D | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| SG&A | 4.3B | 4.5B | 5.4B | 5.5B | 5.6B | 5.7B | 5.0B | 5.5B | 5.6B | 5.5B | 5.3B | 5.1B | 5.1B |
| EBIT | 1.7B | 1.6B | 1.2B | 1.4B | 1.4B | 1.1B | -262M | 1.7B | 246M | 717M | 433M | 624M | 525M |
| Op. Margin | 8.9% | 8.1% | 6.3% | 7.4% | 6.7% | 5.5% | -1.6% | 8.6% | 1.4% | 4.1% | 2.7% | 4.0% | 3.4% |
| Net Income | 867M | 673M | 556M | 859M | 801M | 691M | -163M | 938M | -19M | 317M | 109M | 272M | 172M |
| Net Margin | 4.6% | 3.5% | 3.0% | 4.5% | 4.0% | 3.5% | -1.0% | 4.8% | -0.1% | 1.8% | 0.7% | 1.8% | 1.1% |
| Non-Recurring | 0 | 160M | 205M | 0 | 72M | 73M | 68M | 0 | 22M | 0 | 130M | 26M | 26M |
| Returns on Capital | |||||||||||||
| ROIC | 14.2% | 13.1% | 9.6% | 14.6% | 15.5% | 12.8% | -2.2% | 32.0% | 4.7% | 11.4% | 7.9% | 10.5% | 7.9% |
| ROE | 14.5% | 11.7% | 10.4% | 16.2% | 14.6% | 12.6% | -3.1% | 19.0% | -0.5% | 8.3% | 2.8% | 6.9% | 4.4% |
| ROA | 6.0% | 4.8% | 4.1% | 6.4% | 6.2% | 5.1% | -1.1% | 6.2% | -0.1% | 2.2% | 0.8% | 2.0% | 1.3% |
| Cash Flow | |||||||||||||
| Op. Cash Flow | 2.0B | 1.5B | 2.2B | 1.7B | 2.1B | 1.7B | 1.3B | 2.3B | 282M | 1.2B | 648M | 1.4B | 1.0B |
| Free Cash Flow | 1.3B | 794M | 1.4B | 1.0B | 1.5B | 802M | 1.0B | 1.7B | -544M | 591M | 182M | 1.0B | 601M |
| Owner Earnings | 1.1B | 502M | 1.2B | 645M | 1.1B | 684M | 424M | 1.4B | -556M | 377M | -125M | 646M | -6.3B |
| CapEx | 682M | 690M | 768M | 672M | 578M | 855M | 334M | 605M | 826M | 577M | 466M | 372M | 409M |
| Maint. CapEx | 886M | 934M | 938M | 991M | 964M | 917M | 874M | 838M | 808M | 749M | 743M | 700M | 7.3B |
| Growth CapEx | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18M | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| D&A | 886M | 934M | 938M | 991M | 964M | 917M | 874M | 838M | 808M | 749M | 743M | 700M | 7.3B |
| CapEx/OCF | 33.7% | 46.8% | 35.7% | 39.7% | 27.4% | 51.6% | 25.0% | 26.6% | 292.9% | 49.4% | 71.9% | N/A | 40.5% |
| Capital Allocation | |||||||||||||
| Dividends Paid | 317M | 349M | 358M | 368M | 400M | 423M | 108M | 147M | 239M | 220M | 222M | 56M | 98M |
| Dividend Yield | 4.9% | 5.2% | 7.5% | 8.0% | 5.2% | 7.0% | 3.6% | 2.5% | 6.3% | 9.7% | 10.4% | N/A | 4.9% |
| Share Buybacks | 677M | 1.0B | 557M | 306M | 396M | 470M | 8.0M | 1.4B | 658M | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Buyback Yield | 9.4% | 18.0% | 12.9% | 4.1% | 5.1% | 9.2% | 0.2% | 20.1% | 20.7% | N/A | N/A | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Stock-Based Comp | 48M | 48M | 41M | 55M | 87M | 56M | 40M | 48M | 30M | 42M | 30M | 34M | 31M |
| Debt Repayment | 0 | 1.1B | 0 | 138M | 943M | 6.0M | 1.5B | 1.0B | 6.0M | 275M | 113M | 440M | 440M |
| Balance Sheet | |||||||||||||
| Net Debt | 1.5B | 2.2B | 2.9B | 1.6B | 1.0B | 1.2B | 256M | 410M | 1.8B | 1.5B | 1.4B | 762M | 1.2B |
| Cash & Equiv. | 1.4B | 707M | 1.1B | 1.3B | 934M | 723M | 2.3B | 1.6B | 153M | 183M | 134M | 674M | 348M |
| Long-Term Debt | 2.8B | 2.8B | 2.8B | 2.8B | 1.9B | 1.9B | 2.5B | 1.9B | 1.6B | 1.6B | 1.2B | 1.4B | 1.5B |
| Debt/Equity | 0.48 | 0.53 | 0.76 | 0.54 | 0.36 | 0.36 | 0.49 | 0.43 | 0.51 | 0.44 | 0.40 | 0.35 | 0.41 |
| Interest Coverage | 5.0 | 4.7 | 3.8 | 4.7 | 5.3 | 11.2 | -2.6 | 15.1 | 1.8 | 5.0 | 3.2 | 5.2 | 5.2 |
| Equity | 6.0B | 5.5B | 5.2B | 5.4B | 5.5B | 5.5B | 5.2B | 4.7B | 3.8B | 3.9B | 3.8B | 4.0B | 3.9B |
| Total Assets | 14.3B | 13.6B | 13.6B | 13.4B | 12.5B | 14.6B | 15.3B | 15.1B | 14.3B | 14.0B | 13.6B | 13.4B | 13.4B |
| Total Liabilities | 3.4B | 3.3B | 3.6B | 3.4B | 3.4B | 9.1B | 10.1B | 10.4B | 10.6B | 10.1B | 9.8B | 9.3B | 1.2B |
| Intangibles | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Retained Earnings | 12.0B | 12.3B | 12.5B | 13.0B | 13.4B | 13.7B | 13.5B | 14.3B | 14.0B | 2.9B | 1.0B | 1.2B | 1.1B |
| Working Capital | 2.7B | 2.4B | 2.3B | 2.7B | 2.1B | 1.9B | 2.8B | 1.7B | 621M | 798M | 257M | 1.2B | 926M |
| Current Assets | 5.6B | 5.1B | 5.2B | 5.4B | 4.8B | 4.6B | 5.8B | 5.0B | 3.7B | 3.4B | 3.4B | 3.7B | 3.5B |
| Current Liabilities | 2.9B | 2.7B | 3.0B | 2.7B | 2.7B | 2.8B | 3.0B | 3.3B | 3.1B | 2.6B | 3.1B | 2.5B | 2.5B |
| Per Share Data | |||||||||||||
| EPS | 4.24 | 3.46 | 3.11 | 5.12 | 4.84 | 4.37 | -1.06 | 6.32 | -0.15 | 2.85 | 0.98 | 2.38 | 1.48 |
| Owner EPS | 5.33 | 2.58 | 6.57 | 3.84 | 6.38 | 4.33 | 2.76 | 9.33 | -4.39 | 3.39 | -1.12 | 5.65 | -56.44 |
| Book Value | 29.30 | 28.23 | 28.92 | 32.30 | 33.40 | 34.47 | 33.79 | 31.40 | 29.71 | 35.00 | 34.18 | 35.42 | 35.04 |
| Cash Flow/Share | 9.90 | 7.63 | 12.04 | 10.08 | 12.73 | 10.48 | 8.70 | 15.30 | 2.23 | 10.50 | 5.83 | 12.08 | 66.71 |
| Dividends/Share | 1.56 | 1.80 | 2.00 | 2.20 | 2.44 | 2.68 | 0.70 | 1.00 | 2.00 | 2.00 | 2.00 | 0.50 | 0.87 |
| Shares Out. | 204.5M | 194.5M | 178.8M | 167.8M | 165.5M | 158.1M | 153.8M | 148.4M | 126.7M | 111.2M | 111.2M | 114.3M | 112.1M |
| Valuation | |||||||||||||
| P/E Ratio | 8.3 | 8.2 | 7.8 | 8.7 | 9.7 | 7.4 | N/A | 7.2 | N/A | 8.7 | 13.3 | N/A | 12.2 |
| P/FCF | 5.3 | 7.0 | 3.1 | 7.4 | 5.1 | 6.3 | 5.2 | 4.0 | N/A | 4.7 | 8.0 | N/A | 3.3 |
| EV/EBIT | 4.4 | 4.6 | 4.4 | 5.6 | 5.7 | 5.0 | N/A | 3.4 | 19.8 | 6.3 | 6.9 | N/A | 6.2 |
| Price/Book | 1.2 | 1.0 | 0.8 | 1.4 | 1.4 | 0.9 | 1.0 | 1.4 | 0.8 | 0.7 | 0.4 | N/A | 0.5 |
| Price/Sales | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | N/A | 0.1 |
| FCF Yield | 18.7% | 14.3% | 32.0% | 13.6% | 19.6% | 15.8% | 19.3% | 24.8% | -17.1% | 21.4% | 12.6% | N/A | 29.9% |
| Market Cap | 7.2B | 5.6B | 4.3B | 7.5B | 7.8B | 5.1B | 5.2B | 6.7B | 3.2B | 2.8B | 1.4B | 0 | 2.0B |
| Avg. Price | 31.86 | 34.49 | 26.80 | 27.56 | 46.33 | 38.43 | 19.43 | 40.24 | 29.99 | 20.37 | 19.11 | 0.00 | 17.94 |
| Year-End Price | 35.04 | 28.54 | 24.24 | 44.79 | 47.10 | 32.16 | 33.80 | 45.32 | 25.07 | 24.89 | 13.01 | 0.00 | 17.94 |
KOHLS Corp passes 2 of 9 quality checks, indicating weak fundamentals.
KOHLS Corp trades at 4.2x trailing earnings, compared to its 15-year median P/E of 8.7x, suggesting it is currently Cheap relative to its historical range. On a free-cash-flow basis, the stock trades at 2.0x vs a median of 5.1x. The company's 5-year average ROIC is 13.3% with a gross margin of 39.8%. Total shareholder yield (dividends) is 4.9%. At current prices, the estimated annualized return to fair value is -15.9%.
KOHLS Corp (KSS) has a net profit margin of 1.8%. This is a modest margin.
KOHLS Corp (KSS) generated $1.0 billion in free cash flow in its most recent fiscal year. Positive free cash flow supports dividends, buybacks, and debt reduction.
KOHLS Corp (KSS) has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.35. This indicates a conservatively financed balance sheet.
KOHLS Corp (KSS) reported earnings per share (EPS) of $2.38 in its most recent fiscal year.
KOHLS Corp (KSS) has a return on equity (ROE) of 6.9%. This indicates moderate shareholder returns.
KOHLS Corp (KSS) has a 5-year average gross margin of 39.8%. This indicates decent pricing power.
The Ledger Terminal provides 17 years of financial data for KOHLS Corp (KSS), sourced directly from SEC EDGAR filings. This includes income statements, balance sheets, cash flow statements, and key financial ratios.
KOHLS Corp (KSS) has a book value per share of $35.42, based on its most recent annual SEC filing.
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