QualityDipStocks / Consumer Discretionary · Retail stores
Burlington Stores BURL
Outside our quality screen, so we don’t track its dips. It’s 36% below its 52-week high.
Outside our quality screen, trading well above our fair value estimate, 8% under its Market Value.
- Fair value est.
- $150.98−36%
- Market Value
- $257.80price −8%
- Off 52-wk high
- −36%
- Risk vs market
- Below marketbeta 0.76
5 bullish · 5 bearish See why
Key levels
Every level vs today’s $237.09
- Fair value est.base case$150.98−36.3%
- 52-wk lowlowest close, 1 year$227.28−4.1%
- PriceFri Oct 30 close$237.09you are here
- Market Valueavg paid since Aug 27$257.80+8.7%
- 52-wk highhighest close, 1 year$372.19+57.0%
Fair value estimate
How the range is computed
Ten-year free-cash-flow DCF. Same 10-year free-cash-flow model as the base: discount rate 9.5% ±1 point and growth 9.9% ±2 points. Bear = 10.5% and 7.9%; bull = 8.5% and 11.9% (both fade to 3%). A model estimate from public filings, not a forecast of where the price will go.
Price is above even the bull case.
What the price implies To be worth today’s price, BURL’s free cash flow would need to grow about 18% a year for five years; our estimate uses 10%.
Risk vs market
How risk vs market is measured
One year of daily returns (Oct 30 to Oct 30, 252 sessions). Beta = how much BURL moved for each 1% move in the S&P 500 (SPY); 1.0 moves with the market. Volatility is the yearly standard deviation of daily returns. Past behavior, not a forecast.
Moves a bit less than the market, but its own price swings are 3.1× the S&P 500’s (it moves on its own news).
- Beta vs S&P 500
- 0.76
- Volatility
- 40% vs 13% SPY
- Correlation SPY
- 0.24
- Correlation QQQ
- 0.17
Bull vs bear
Rule-based from the data on this page, strongest first. Not advice.
Top bullish points 5 of 5
ProfitabilityReturn on equity of 41% over the last 12 months.
GrowthDiluted EPS grew 22% to $9.51 in FY2026.
GrowthSales grew 11% to $12.2B over the last 12 months vs the 12 months before (SEC filings).
GrowthSales grew 9.9% a year over the last three fiscal years, above the 6.1% median for the 179 Consumer Discretionary companies we cover.
ValuationTrades 8.0% below its Market Value of $257.80, the average price paid since the Aug 27 filing.
Top bearish points 5 of 5
ValuationOur DCF fair value estimate is $150.98, 36% below the price.
Balance sheetDebt rose 46% to $2.0B from FY2024 to FY2026.
ValuationFree-cash-flow yield of 2.7%, below the 4.9% median for the 169 Consumer Discretionary companies we cover.
Cash returnsShare count up 0.0% over 12 months, above the −1.8% median for the 160 Consumer Discretionary companies we cover.
QualityDoesn’t pass our quality screen: net debt 3.8× EBITDA (limit 3×).
Who’s talking about it
Notable investors, executives, analysts and public figures on Burlington Stores in the last 48 hours. Headlines as published, each linked. Their words, not ours.
No notable mentions in the last 48 hours. Checked Nov 1, 9:09 PM ET.
Compare with peers
Closest in size in Retail stores
All fundamentals
P/E 21.2 · FCF yield 2.7% · ROE 41%
Valuation
- P/E
- 21.2×Consumer Discretionary median 20.9×
- Price / FCF
- 36.7×
- FCF yield
- 2.7%
- EV / EBITDA
- n/aD&A or debt not tagged in SEC data
- Price / sales
- 1.24×
- Price / book
- 7.57×
- Market cap
- $15.1Bprice × diluted shares
- Enterprise value
- $16.4B
Growth
- Revenue, 12 months
- $12.2B
- Sales growth, 12 months
- +10.9%vs the 12 months before
- Sales growth, 3 yrs
- +9.9%/yrfrom FY2023
- Diluted EPS, 12 months
- $11.13
- EPS growth, last FY
- +21.9%
- Net income, 12 months
- $714M
- Net income growth
- +31%12 months vs before
Profitability
- Gross margin
- 44.6%
- Operating margin
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
- Net margin
- 5.8%
- FCF margin
- 3.4%
- Return on equity
- 41%
- Return on invested capital
- n/aoperating income, debt, equity or cash not tagged
Balance sheet
- Cash & short-term inv.
- $704M
- Total debt
- $1.9B
- Net cash
- −$1.2B
- Debt / equity
- 0.96×
- Interest coverage
- n/ainterest expense not tagged in SEC data
Cash flow & returns
- Free cash flow, 12 months
- $413M
- FCF growth, 12 months
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
- Dividend yield
- n/ano dividend payments tagged
- Payout ratio
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
- Buybacks, 12 months
- $346M2.3% of market cap
- Share count, 1 year
- +0.0%diluted shares vs a year ago
- Stock-based comp
- $121M
Trailing 12 months to Aug 1, 2026; balance sheet at Aug 1, 2026. From Burlington Stores’s SEC filings. Sparklines show up to six fiscal years. n/a means we don’t hold that number, with the reason. How each is computed.
Valuation details
DCF $150.98 · MV $257.80 · FCF value $42.89
Assumes 9.9% growth for 5 years (revenue grew 9.9% a year FY23–FY26), fading to 3%; 9.5% discount rate, 3% terminal growth. FCF base $6.46 a share (trailing 12 months to Aug 1, 2026), from the 10-Q filed Aug 27, 2026.
Setup & signals
No setup armed
No setup armed, so there’s no trigger or stop to track yet. Reversal signal rules only run on companies that pass our quality screen.
Momentum & 52-week range
RSI 35 · 5 days −4.3%
The business
FCF $0.1B · Sales +11%
- Free cash flow, 12 months$0.1B
- Free-cash-flow yield0.7%
- Free-cash-flow margin1%
- Gross margin44%
- Operating margin7%
- Return on invested capital9%
- Return on equity41%
- Sales growth (latest quarter vs year-ago quarter)+11%
- Net debt / EBITDA3.8×
Information only, not investment advice. Fair value estimates and talking points are rule-based model output from public data and can be wrong; stop levels are reference points, not orders. How every number is computed.
BURL is outside our quality screen
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