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Largest US sporting goods retailer, selling athletic apparel, footwear and equipment through big-box and specialty-format stores.
Largest US sporting goods retailer, selling athletic apparel, footwear and equipment through big-box and specialty-format stores.
Earns retail margin on brands such as Nike that it buys and resells, plus higher margins on its own labels like DSG and CALIA. Stores range from big-box to the larger House of Sport format. In 2025 it bought Foot Locker, adding a global chain of mall-based sneaker stores to a mainly US business.
Moat: narrow (scale, brand, distribution). Largest scale among US sporting-goods chains with growing experiential-store formats, though competition from brand DTC and Amazon persists.
Headquarters: Coraopolis, Pennsylvania, United States · Founded: 1948 · Employees: 105,200
Size Dick's Sporting Goods (DKS) is a United States Consumer Discretionary company (Specialty Stores) with a market value of $12.5B, the 679th largest of 3,117 United States companies the cockpit tracks. Shares closed at $140.82 on 6 Nov 2026.
Performance Over six months the shares fell 34.6%, against +20.9% for the median peer and -1.1% for the United States market (cap-weighted) — lowest of 21 in its peer set.
Growth Revenue grew 53.5% over the last twelve months (peer median +5.1%); the operating margin is 6.4% (peer median 4.8%).
Valuation It trades at 11.8× forward earnings against a peer median of 17.8× (6th cheapest of 21).
Price implies For today's price to make sense, revenue must grow about 9% a year for seven years (Req g). Recent delivered growth is +12%, so the hurdle is -4 pp: the price already allows for a slowdown.
Capital Return on invested capital runs 0.0 points below its cost of capital (8.4% WACC).
Credit Dick's Sporting Goods has 5 bonds outstanding ($2.88B), rated BBB by the agencies and trading like BBB- at a weighted spread of 143 bp.
Short interest Short interest is 18.1% of the free float (15 Oct 2026).
Next results Next results expected around 24 Nov 2026 (exchange calendar; dates can move).
| TTM | FY2025 | FY2024 | FY2023 | FY2022 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | $21.1B | $17.2B | $13.4B | $13.0B | $12.4B |
| Revenue growth | — | +28% | +4% | +5% | — |
| Gross profit | $6.82B | $5.67B | $4.83B | $4.55B | $4.29B |
| EBITDA | $1.95B | $1.81B | $1.93B | $1.77B | $1.84B |
| Net income | $839M | $849M | $1.17B | $1.05B | $1.04B |
| Free cash flow | $238M | $399M | $509M | $940M | $558M |
| Capital expenditure | $1.35B | $1.14B | $803M | $587M | $407M |
| Total debt | $7.96B | $7.75B | $4.49B | $4.26B | $4.21B |
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| Company | Market cap | 6M return | Revenue growth | Op. margin | Forward P/E | Req g |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dick's Sporting Goods DKS | $12.5B | -35% | +54% | 6% | 11.8× | 8.7% |
| Academy Sports and Outdoors ASO | $4.14B | +24% | +4% | 10% | 9.9× | -1.2% |
| JD Sports Fashion JD..L | $6.03B | +37% | +2% | 7% | 9.0× | 1.4% |
| Genesco GCO | $390M | +3% | +3% | 1% | 11.6× | 14.5% |
Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size. This is the same default set the interactive Competitor Analysis opens with.
| Measure | DKS | Peer median | Rank in peer set |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1-month return | +4.6% | +6.3% | 10th lowest of 21 |
| 6-month return | -34.6% | +20.9% | lowest of 21 |
| Distance from 52-week high | -42.4% | -12.7% | lowest of 21 |
| Revenue growth (TTM) | +53.5% | +5.1% | highest of 21 |
| Operating margin | 6.4% | 4.8% | 8th highest of 21 |
| Forward P/E | 11.8× | 17.8× | 6th cheapest of 21 |
| Growth the price implies (Req g, 7 yrs) | 8.7% | 5.9% | 7th most demanding of 17 |
| Growth delivered (Del g) | +12.4% | +7.4% | 3rd highest of 17 |
| Hurdle (Req g minus delivered) | -3.8 pp | -1.9 pp | 8th least demanding of 17 |
| ROIC minus cost of capital | -0.0 pp | +5.0 pp | 8th lowest of 20 |
| EV / EBITDA | 10.0× | 11.4× | 7th cheapest of 17 |
| Net debt / EBITDA | 3.6× | 2.2× | 8th most indebted of 21 |
| Bond spread | 143 bp | 114 bp | 4th widest of 8 |
| Company | Market | Market cap | 6M return | Revenue growth | Op. margin | Forward P/E | Req g | Delivered g |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dick's Sporting Goods DKS | United States | $12.5B | -35% | +54% | 6% | 11.8× | 8.7% | +12.4% |
| Nitori 9843.T | Japan | $11.7B | +47% | 0% | 13% | 20.0× | 2.7% | +4.9% |
| BJ's Wholesale Club BJ | United States | $13.8B | +18% | +9% | 4% | 22.4× | -0.7% | +6.8% |
| Penske Automotive PAG | United States | $13.9B | +22% | +6% | 3% | 15.2× | 12.6% | +9.2% |
| Carrefour CA.PA | France | $11.1B | -21% | -8% | 3% | 8.4× | -1.2% | +3.1% |
| Wayfair W | United States | $15.3B | +69% | +8% | 2% | 29.6× | 47.7% | -2.5% |
| Sanrio 8136.T | Japan | $9.78B | +33% | +28% | 39% | 22.4× | 1.9% | +36.4% |
| Murphy USA MUSA | United States | $9.45B | -10% | +20% | 4% | 17.5× | -9.4% | +11.5% |
| Tractor Supply TSCO | United States | $18.9B | +20% | +4% | 9% | 18.0× | 4.1% | +7.9% |
| CarMax KMX | United States | $7.31B | +28% | +4% | 2% | 15.5× | 17.6% | +6.7% |
| Pepco Group BV PCO.WA | Poland | $7.18B | +58% | -42% | 15% | 16.8× | 4.6% | +4.5% |
| Lithia Motors LAD | United States | $6.68B | +5% | +1% | 4% | 8.0× | n/a | n/a |
| Kalyan Jewellers India KALYANKJIL.NS | India | $6.47B | +44% | +46% | 6% | 37.6× | n/a | n/a |
| Ultrapar Participacoes S.A. Sponsored ADR UGP | United States | $6.12B | -11% | +20% | 5% | 7.0× | -12.6% | +12.2% |
| AutoNation AN | United States | $5.88B | -11% | -2% | 5% | 8.3× | n/a | n/a |
| Ulta Beauty ULTA | United States | $27.6B | +24% | +11% | 13% | 21.1× | 7.1% | +15.0% |
| Frasers FRAS.L | United Kingdom | $5.64B | +44% | +8% | 7% | 9.1× | n/a | n/a |
| Rush Enterprises RUSHA | United States | $5.54B | +6% | -3% | 5% | 15.4× | 7.9% | +9.4% |
| Williams-Sonoma WSM | United States | $29.9B | +40% | +2% | 19% | 25.6× | 15.4% | +2.9% |
| PriceSmart PSMT | United States | $5.02B | +3% | +12% | 5% | 27.2× | 10.5% | +10.2% |
| Endeavour EDV.AX | Australia | $4.48B | +10% | +1% | 4% | 21.4× | 14.9% | +1.0% |
Dick's Sporting Goods has 5 bonds outstanding with $2.88B face value. The agencies rate it BBB; its bonds trade like BBB-. Weighted yield 6.37%, a spread of 143 bp over government bonds.