NASDAQ:ROST - Ross Stores Stock Price, Price Target & More

Ross Stores trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "ROST."

Ross Stores announced a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, March 6th. Shareholders of record on Monday, March 19th will be paid a dividend of $0.225 per share on Friday, March 30th. This represents a $0.90 annualized dividend and a yield of 1.09%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, March 16th. This is a boost from Ross Stores's previous quarterly dividend of $0.16. View Ross Stores' Dividend History.

Ross Stores declared that its board has initiated a share repurchase program on Wednesday, March 7th 2018, which permits the company to repurchase $200,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization permits the company to reacquire shares of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase programs are generally an indication that the company's management believes its shares are undervalued.

Ross Stores (NASDAQ:ROST) released its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, March, 6th. The apparel retailer reported $0.98 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.93 by $0.05. The apparel retailer earned $4.07 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $3.95 billion. Ross Stores had a net margin of 9.64% and a return on equity of 44.53%. View Ross Stores' Earnings History.

Ross Stores is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, May, 24th 2018. View Earnings Estimates for Ross Stores.

Ross Stores updated its FY19 earnings guidance on Tuesday, March, 6th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $3.86-4.03 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus earnings per share estimate of $4.15. Ross Stores also updated its Q1 guidance to $1.03-1.07 EPS.

24 Wall Street analysts have issued 12-month target prices for Ross Stores' stock. Their predictions range from $64.00 to $95.00. On average, they anticipate Ross Stores' stock price to reach $82.6190 in the next twelve months. View Analyst Ratings for Ross Stores.

Ross Stores saw a drop in short interest during the month of April. As of April 30th, there was short interest totalling 3,379,629 shares, a drop of 39.8% from the April 13th total of 5,618,457 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 2,293,336 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 1.5 days. Currently, 0.9% of the company's stock are short sold.

Some companies that are related to Ross Stores include TJX Companies (TJX), Viacom (VIA), GAP (GPS), Nordstrom (JWN), Urban Outfitters (URBN), American Eagle Outfitters (AEO), The Children's Place (PLCE), Abercrombie & Fitch (ANF), Buckle (BKE), Lands' End (LE), Stein Mart (SMRT), Stage Stores (SSI) and Destination XL Group (DXLG).

News stories about ROST stock have trended somewhat positive recently, according to Accern Sentiment. Accern rates the sentiment of media coverage by reviewing more than twenty million blog and news sources in real-time. Accern ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative one to one, with scores nearest to one being the most favorable. Ross Stores earned a coverage optimism score of 0.06 on Accern's scale. They also gave news coverage about the apparel retailer an impact score of 44.99 out of 100, meaning that recent media coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the near future.

Ross Stores' stock is owned by a variety of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include BlackRock Inc. (7.01%), Principal Financial Group Inc. (1.86%), Franklin Resources Inc. (1.59%), Alecta Pensionsforsakring Omsesidigt (1.25%), Amundi Pioneer Asset Management Inc. (1.23%) and Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA (1.22%). Company insiders that own Ross Stores stock include Barbara Rentler, Bernard G Brautigan, Brian R Morrow, George Orban, Gregory L Quesnel, James S Fassio, John G Call, Lisa R Panattoni, Michael Balmuth, Michael J Bush, Michael J Hartshorn and Sharon D Garrett. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Ross Stores.

ROST stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Flossbach Von Storch AG, Amundi Pioneer Asset Management Inc., Old Mutual Global Investors UK Ltd., Element Capital Management LLC, Envestnet Asset Management Inc., Wells Fargo & Company MN, Todd Asset Management LLC and Prudential Financial Inc.. Company insiders that have sold Ross Stores company stock in the last year include Barbara Rentler, Bernard G Brautigan, Brian R Morrow, Lisa R Panattoni, Michael Balmuth, Michael J Hartshorn and Sharon D Garrett. View Insider Buying and Selling for Ross Stores.

ROST stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Rockefeller Capital Management L.P., American Century Companies Inc., Millennium Management LLC, Carillon Tower Advisers Inc., BlackRock Inc., Alecta Pensionsforsakring Omsesidigt, Great West Life Assurance Co. Can and Pendal Group Ltd. View Insider Buying and Selling for Ross Stores.

Shares of ROST can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of ROST stock can currently be purchased for approximately $82.47.

Ross Stores has a market capitalization of $31.23 billion and generates $14.13 billion in revenue each year. The apparel retailer earns $1.36 billion in net income (profit) each year or $3.34 on an earnings per share basis. Ross Stores employs 82,700 workers across the globe.

Ross Stores' mailing address is 5130 HACIENDA DRIVE, DUBLIN CA, 94568. The apparel retailer can be reached via phone at 925-965-4400 or via email at [email protected]