KOHL’S CORP

The business, in plain English

KOHL’S CORP booked $15.5B of revenue in FY2026 in the Consumer Discretionary sector and kept 40.6% of it as gross profit — a solid-margin business by that measure. After every other cost, 1.8% of each revenue dollar reached the bottom line.

Across the filed record, revenue shrank from $16.5B (FY2008) to $15.5B (FY2026) — about −0.3% a year compounded over 18 years.

It earned 10.5% on invested capital in the latest filed year, FY2026. Across the full 19-year measurable filed record, median ROIC was 14.3%. Over the v3 recent window (10 measurable filed years), median ROIC was 11.2%. The Returns on Capital filter above scores it 41/100.

The balance sheet carried $1.4B of total debt in FY2026 against $600M of owner earnings — roughly 2.4 years of owner earnings to retire it all. Balance-Sheet Safety scores it 92/100.

Put together: Balance-Sheet Safety is the strongest of the five filters (92/100) and Business Trend the weakest (20/100), which is how KSS lands at 53/100 — a Shallow moat.

This breakdown is generated from the filed numbers and sub-scores above — no outside narrative, no estimates. Where a filing doesn’t disclose an input, the sentence that would need it is omitted instead of guessed.