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FY 2025 · View financials
Decision snapshot: BURL stock price vs FTNT: 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 FTNT's multiple
Needs FTNT 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) · FTNT FY 2025 (ended Dec 31, 2025). Fiscal years are not aligned.
Trendline
Six 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
FORTINET, INC. · implied price per share
Bear
$26.80
Base
$31.53
Bull
$36.26
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
0.81x
Net debt / EBITDA
Leverage against operating earnings
0.15x
-0.92x
Cash and equivalents
Liquid reserves on the balance sheet
$1.23B
$3.27B
Total debt
Interest-bearing obligations outstanding
$1.43B
$996.30M
Comparable set
Where the pair sits against the wider comparable set.
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If you believe BURL can sustain strong growth and materially expand margins beyond the current 8.8% revenue growth and 5.3% net margin, then hold or add because the implied P/E valuation points to upside; otherwise, the richer operating profile of FTNT and BURL’s weak DCF range argue for caution.
BURL trades at 38.7x P/E versus FTNT at 66.0x, but the higher-multiple FTNT also delivers materially stronger growth and margins, making the relative valuation gap look less compelling for BURL. The model’s implied price of $627.31 is far above the current $368.09, yet that upside is inconsistent with the much lower DCF range of $90.50-$122.45 and only modest distance to the historical band.
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