Growth Metrics

Ross Stores (ROST) Gross Margin (2016 - 2025)

Ross Stores (ROST) has 17 years of Gross Margin data on record, last reported at 28.0% in Q4 2025.

  • For Q4 2025, Gross Margin fell 33.0% year-over-year to 28.0%; the TTM value through Nov 2025 reached 27.55%, down 45.0%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 27.78%, 41.0% up from the prior year.
  • Gross Margin reached 28.0% in Q4 2025 per ROST's latest filing, up from 27.62% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, Gross Margin topped out at 29.18% in Q2 2021 and bottomed at 24.7% in Q1 2023.
  • Average Gross Margin over 5 years is 27.11%, with a median of 27.48% recorded in 2024.
  • Peak YoY movement for Gross Margin: skyrocketed 3175bps in 2021, then crashed -319bps in 2022.
  • A 5-year view of Gross Margin shows it stood at 27.29% in 2021, then decreased by -8bps to 25.0% in 2022, then grew by 11bps to 27.63% in 2023, then rose by 3bps to 28.34% in 2024, then dropped by -1bps to 28.0% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant database, its latest 3 readings for Gross Margin were 28.0% in Q4 2025, 27.62% in Q3 2025, and 28.16% in Q2 2025.