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Designer Brands (DBI) Return on Equity (2016 - 2025)

Designer Brands (DBI) has disclosed Return on Equity for 15 consecutive years, with 0.09% as the latest value for Q4 2025.

  • On a quarterly basis, Return on Equity fell 8.0% to 0.09% in Q4 2025 year-over-year; TTM through Nov 2025 was 0.09%, a 8.0% decrease, with the full-year FY2025 number at 0.03%, down 11.0% from a year prior.
  • Return on Equity was 0.09% for Q4 2025 at Designer Brands, up from 0.11% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Return on Equity ranged from a high of 0.43% in Q3 2022 to a low of 1.59% in Q1 2021.
  • A 5-year average of 0.02% and a median of 0.03% in 2021 define the central range for Return on Equity.
  • Peak YoY movement for Return on Equity: crashed -172bps in 2021, then surged 198bps in 2022.
  • Designer Brands' Return on Equity stood at 0.02% in 2021, then soared by 1960bps to 0.35% in 2022, then crashed by -31bps to 0.25% in 2023, then tumbled by -102bps to 0.0% in 2024, then crashed by -1901bps to 0.09% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for DBI's Return on Equity are 0.09% (Q4 2025), 0.11% (Q3 2025), and 0.1% (Q2 2025).