Report
Bridget Weishaar
EUR 147.86 For Business Accounts Only

Ross posts strong performance and continues to benefit from the glut of inventory in the market.

Flexing the power of its value offering and read and react capabilities, narrow moat-rated Ross drove strong revenue and profitability gains in the second quarter. With performance tracking only slightly ahead of our expectations for just under 6% revenue growth and 7% EPS growth in fiscal 2016, we see little change to our $57 fair value estimate. In the long term, we continue to believe that Ross can sustain mid-single-digit topline growth on new store openings and 3% average annual comparable ...
Underlying
Ross Stores Inc.

Ross Stores and its subsidiaries operate two brands of off-price retail apparel and home fashion stores, which are Ross Dress for Less? (Ross) and dd's DISCOUNTS?. Ross provides name brand and designer apparel, accessories, footwear, and home fashions for the entire family at savings of 20% to 60% off department and specialty store regular prices every day. dd's DISCOUNTS provides name brand apparel, accessories, footwear, and home fashions for the entire family at savings of 20% to 70% off moderate department and discount store regular prices every day. Both of the company's Ross and dd's DISCOUNTS brands target women and men between the ages of 18 and 54.

Provider
Morningstar
Morningstar

Morningstar, Inc. is a leading provider of independent investment research in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. The company offer an extensive line of products and services for individual investors, financial advisors, asset managers, and retirement plan providers and sponsors.

Morningstar provides data on approximately 530,000 investment offerings, including stocks, mutual funds, and similar vehicles, along with real-time global market data on more than 18 million equities, indexes, futures, options, commodities, and precious metals, in addition to foreign exchange and Treasury markets. Morningstar also offers investment management services through its investment advisory subsidiaries and had approximately $185 billion in assets under advisement and management as of June 30, 2016.

We have operations in 27 countries.

Analysts
Bridget Weishaar

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