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FY 2026 · View financials
Decision snapshot: BURL stock price vs CSCO: inconclusive Relative valuation is incomplete for this pair. Review the available filing metrics before drawing a conclusion.
Quick read
Each company valued on the other's multiple, then compared with the market price.
Implied fair value · at CSCO's multiple
Needs CSCO P/E.
Implied fair value · at BURL's multiple
Needs BURL P/E.
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Metric by metric
Where each company leads, and how wide the gap is.
Growth lag
Pricing power
Operating leverage
Lower is better
Not comparable
Lower leverage
Statements
Core statements aligned to each company's latest fiscal year.
SEC periods: BURL FY 2026 (ended Jan 31, 2026) · CSCO FY 2026 (ended Jul 25, 2026). Fiscal years are not aligned.
Trendline
Five fiscal years of revenue, earnings, and margins before underwriting a re-rating.
Price framework
Market cap plus debt, less cash.
Price framework
Discounted free cash flow, then bridged to a per-share price. Same assumptions applied to both companies.
BURLINGTON STORES, INC. · implied price per share
Bear
$88.04
Base
$103.58
Bull
$119.11
CISCO SYSTEMS, INC. · implied price per share
Bear
$29.27
Base
$34.44
Bull
$39.60
Balance sheet health
Financial health checks to separate durable balance sheets from potential value traps.
Financial strength on a 0–9 scale.
Bankruptcy-risk signal from balance sheet and earnings power.
Not enough data to score either balance sheet.
Debt / equity
Total debt against shareholders' equity
0.79x
0.66x
Net debt / EBITDA
Leverage against operating earnings
0.15x
0.91x
Cash and equivalents
Liquid reserves on the balance sheet
$1.23B
$15.92B
Total debt
Interest-bearing obligations outstanding
$1.43B
$33.03B
Comparable set
Where the pair sits against the wider comparable set.
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If you believe BURL can sustain its 8.8% revenue growth while improving margins closer to peers, then BURL looks worth owning because it trades at lower P/E, P/S, EV/EBITDA, and EV/Revenue multiples than CSCO and sits 17.4% below the implied price.
BURL's current price of $368.48 is 17.4% below the implied price of $432.57, suggesting valuation upside on the provided P/E framework. On absolute multiples, BURL also trades at a lower P/E, P/S, EV/EBITDA, and EV/Revenue than CSCO, which supports a relative discount.
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