Kohl's Financial Ratios
NYSE: KSSConsumer DiscretionaryDepartment/Specialty Retail StoresUSD
At close: Oct 9, 4:00 PM ET · Delayed 15 min
Kohl's ratio analysis
Kohl's earned a net margin of 1.8% in FY 2025, up from 0.7% a year earlier. Gross margin was 40.6% compared with a median of 39.2% over the prior 9 years. Return on equity reached 6.7%, meaning Kohl's generated 0.07 dollars of profit for every dollar of shareholders' equity.
Debt-to-equity stood at 0.35 versus 0.40 the year before, and the current ratio was 1.46. At the end of FY 2025, KSS traded at 7.3 times earnings; across the 8 fiscal years shown, its year-end P/E ranged from 7.3 to 13.8, with a median of 11.1. Valuation ratios use the closing share price on each fiscal year-end date and diluted shares from the income statement; profitability and leverage ratios use reported annual figures. Current valuation multiples are on the statistics page.
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Kohl's financial ratios (annual)
| Ratio | FY 2025 | FY 2024 | FY 2023 | FY 2022 | FY 2021 | FY 2020 | FY 2019 | FY 2018 | FY 2017 | FY 2016 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| P/E ratio (at fiscal year end) | 7.34 | 13.48 | 9.26 | — | 9.52 | — | 9.78 | 13.78 | 12.40 | 12.54 |
| Price / sales | 0.13 | 0.09 | 0.17 | 0.21 | 0.45 | 0.43 | 0.00 | 0.54 | 0.53 | 0.35 |
| Price / book | 0.48 | 0.39 | 0.75 | 1.00 | 1.88 | 1.31 | 0.00 | 1.98 | 1.96 | 1.34 |
| Gross margin | 40.6% | 40.4% | 39.9% | 36.7% | 41.1% | 35.1% | 39.2% | 39.7% | 34.5% | 34.3% |
| Operating margin | 4.0% | 2.7% | 4.1% | 1.4% | 8.6% | -1.6% | 5.5% | 6.7% | 7.1% | 6.0% |
| Net margin | 1.8% | 0.7% | 1.8% | -0.1% | 4.8% | -1.0% | 3.5% | 4.0% | 4.3% | 2.8% |
| Free cash flow margin | 6.5% | 1.1% | 3.4% | -3.0% | 8.6% | 6.3% | 4.0% | 7.6% | 5.1% | 7.0% |
| Return on equity (ROE) | 6.7% | 2.9% | 8.1% | -0.5% | 20.1% | -3.1% | 12.7% | 14.5% | 15.9% | 10.8% |
| Return on assets (ROA) | 2.0% | 0.8% | 2.3% | -0.1% | 6.2% | -1.1% | 4.7% | 6.4% | 6.4% | 4.1% |
| Debt / equity | 0.35 | 0.40 | 0.42 | 0.51 | 0.41 | 0.47 | 0.34 | 0.36 | 0.54 | 0.57 |
| Current ratio | 1.46 | 1.08 | 1.31 | 1.20 | 1.53 | 1.93 | 1.68 | 1.77 | 1.99 | 1.76 |
| Revenue growth | -4.3% | -7.2% | -3.4% | -6.9% | 21.8% | -20.1% | -1.3% | 0.7% | 2.0% | 2.5% |
| EPS growth | 142.9% | -65.6% | — | -102.4% | — | -124.3% | -9.7% | -5.5% | 64.6% | -10.1% |