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Shoe Station Group, Inc.SHOECompetitor analysis, valuation and peers

United States · USD·Consumer Discretionary›Apparel/Footwear Retail
Momentum neutral 41
Mkt cap
$395M
US dollars, full cap
Free float
66%
of shares outstanding
$/day
$10.0M
20-day average traded
Fwd P/E
13.2×
forward earnings
ROIC−WACC
-5.9 pp
WACC 8.7%
Hurdle
+5 pp
Req g minus delivered
Next earnings
12 days
18 Nov 2026
Close · USD$14.54
1D-4.2%
1W-0.8%
1M+11.3%
3M-9.8%
6M-18.9%
YTD-13.9%
1Y-18.5%
ATR %5.0%
Beta0.99
52w lowhigh32.7% off high

What Shoe Station does

Employees: 5,000

Shoe Station at a glance

Size Shoe Station (SHOE) is a United States Consumer Discretionary company (Apparel/Footwear Retail) with a market value of $395M, the 2866th largest of 3,117 United States companies the cockpit tracks. Shares closed at $14.54 on 6 Nov 2026.

Performance Over six months the shares fell 18.9%, against -4.0% for the median peer and -1.1% for the United States market (cap-weighted) — 6th lowest of 20 in its peer set.

Growth Revenue fell 4.1% over the last twelve months (peer median +5.6%); the operating margin is 2.9% (peer median 3.5%).

Valuation It trades at 13.2× forward earnings against a peer median of 12.4× (7th most expensive of 15).

Price implies For today's price to make sense, revenue must grow about 8% a year for seven years (Req g). Recent delivered growth is +3%, so the hurdle is +5 pp: the price needs faster growth than the company has been delivering — of companies that just grew 25–50% a year, 93.8% slowed down over the next four years.

Capital Return on invested capital runs 5.9 points below its cost of capital (8.7% WACC).

Short interest Short interest is 36.4% of the free float (15 Oct 2026).

Next results Next results expected around 18 Nov 2026 (exchange calendar; dates can move).

Relative performance

8010011 May 202611 Aug 20266 Nov 2026Peer median 99SHOE 85
Six months, rebased to 100: Shoe Station against the median of its 20 peers (local-currency closes).

Shoe Station financials

Reported figures in USD; fiscal year ends 2026-01-31. TTM = trailing twelve months.
TTMFY2025FY2024FY2023FY2022
Revenue$1.11B$1.14B$1.20B$1.18B$1.26B
Revenue growth—-6%+2%-7%—
Gross profit$381M$412M$429M$422M$468M
EBITDA$66.6M$101M$124M$124M$218M
Net income$24.3M$52.3M$73.8M$73.3M$110M
Free cash flow$66.5M$26.6M$69.5M$66.5M-$26.9M
Capital expenditure$35.3M$44.7M$33.2M$56.3M$77.3M
Total debt$355M$371M$368M$354M$343M

Quarterly statements and history in the cockpit →

Shoe Station competitor charts

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Performance: 6-month against 1-month return

-50%0%+50%-20%0%GCOCTRNSMCPUNI76060027623709SFIXLINDEX002356JILLDBIARVINDFASNSTYLEBAAZAABFRL8281DEBSRVRCSHOE6-month return →1-month return →
Up and to the right = strong over both horizons. Shoe Station is the large dot.

Fundamentals: revenue growth against valuation

0%+50%+100%10×20×30×GCOCTRNSMCPUNI7606CALJILLARVINDFASNSTYLEBAAZADEBSSHOERevenue growth (TTM) →Forward P/E →
Further right = faster growth; higher = more expensive. The dashed lines are the peer medians. Shoe Station is the large dot.

Capital: growth delivered against growth the price implies

-20%0%+20%+40%0%25%50%GCOCTRNSMCPUNI7606CAL3709SFIXDBIARVINDFASNRVRCSHOEGrowth delivered (Del g) →Growth the price implies (Req g, 7 yrs) →
Above the diagonal = the price needs more growth than the company has been delivering; below = the price already allows for a slowdown. Shoe Station is the large dot.

Shoe Station competitors and peer comparison

How Shoe Station compares with its peers

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.

Shoe Station against its 20 peers (data as of 6 Nov 2026)
MeasureSHOEPeer medianRank in peer set
1-month return+11.3%-0.1%3rd highest of 21
6-month return-18.9%-4.0%6th lowest of 20
Distance from 52-week high-32.7%-21.3%8th lowest of 21
Revenue growth (TTM)-4.1%+5.6%4th lowest of 21
Operating margin2.9%3.5%9th lowest of 20
Forward P/E13.2×12.4×7th most expensive of 15
Growth the price implies (Req g, 7 yrs)8.0%1.3%5th most demanding of 15
Growth delivered (Del g)+3.1%+5.8%4th lowest of 15
Hurdle (Req g minus delivered)+4.9 pp-8.6 pp4th most demanding of 15
ROIC minus cost of capital-5.9 pp-2.3 pp8th lowest of 20
EV / EBITDA9.3×6.7×4th most expensive of 13
Net debt / EBITDA3.4×2.8×9th most indebted of 19

Peer table

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size
CompanyMarketMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthOp. marginForward P/EReq gDelivered g
Shoe Station SHOEUnited States$395M-19%-4%3%13.2×8.0%+3.1%
Genesco GCOUnited States$390M+3%+3%1%11.6×14.5%+6.4%
Citi Trends CTRNUnited States$375M-3%+11%1%22.1×49.7%+0.9%
Purple Style Labs PERNIASPOP.NSIndia$417Mn/a+14%-14%n/an/an/a
Smcp SMCP.PAFrance$368M-17%-1%9%6.3×-6.7%+6.9%
Universal Store UNI.AXAustralia$425M+24%+13%17%14.1×4.0%+12.3%
United Arrows 7606.TJapan$426M-1%+8%6%10.1×-10.9%+6.2%
Jinfa Labi Maternity & Baby Articles 002762.SZChina$429M-4%+12%-14%n/an/an/a
Caleres CALUnited States$438M-6%+7%4%6.6×0.4%+5.4%
EEKA Fashion 3709.HKHong Kong$442M-20%-4%8%6.8×-19.3%+2.6%
Stitch Fix SFIXUnited States$346M-23%+6%-2%n/a10.2%-8.5%
Lindex LINDEX.HEFinland$456M+16%+4%7%12.4×-7.2%+3.8%
Shenzhen Pengfei Green Energy Development 002356.SZChina$458M-29%-23%n/an/an/an/a
J.Jill JILLUnited States$333M+70%-2%8%10.3×-5.4%+6.9%
Designer Brands DBIUnited States$329M-8%-1%3%12.5×2.3%+5.3%
Arvind Fashions ARVINDFASN.NSIndia$486M-25%+13%8%26.8×16.6%+22.5%
Baazar Style Retail STYLEBAAZA.NSIndia$314M-6%+35%5%33.4×n/an/a
Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail ABFRL.NSIndia$503M-42%-27%-8%n/an/an/a
XEBIO 8281.TJapan$298M+7%+3%1%n/a-4.4%+4.5%
boohoo DEBS.LUnited Kingdom$526M+46%+120%0%29.6×n/an/a
RVRC RVRC.STSweden$596M-1%+5%21%14.4×7.6%+17.6%

Questions

Which companies are Shoe Station's closest peers?
The cockpit's peer set: Genesco (GCO), Citi Trends (CTRN), Purple Style Labs (PERNIASPOP.NS), Smcp (SMCP.PA), Universal Store (UNI.AX), United Arrows (7606.T), Jinfa Labi Maternity & Baby Articles (002762.SZ), Caleres (CAL).
Is Shoe Station expensive compared with its peers?
On forward p/e it trades at 13.2× against a peer median of 12.4×, 7th most expensive of 15 in its peer set. For today's price to make sense, revenue must grow about 8% a year for seven years (Req g). Recent delivered growth is +3%, so the hurdle is +5 pp: the price needs faster growth than the company has been delivering — of companies that just grew 25–50% a year, 93.8% slowed down over the next four years.
How has Shoe Station stock performed?
Over six months to 6 Nov 2026 the shares returned -18.9% against -4.0% for the median peer; over one year -18.5%.

How these numbers are made. Returns are close-to-close in local currency. Revenue growth and margins are trailing twelve months. Req g is the revenue growth that today's enterprise value requires for seven years at the company's own cost of capital; Delivered g is what it actually grew; the gap is the hurdle (honest precision about ±8 points, so read the ranking more than the decimal). No fair values, price targets or analyst ratings are shown, by design. Method and validation.