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Genesco Inc. (GCO)

NYSE / Consumer Cyclical / Apparel - Retail

Share price

37.42 USD Market dataClose of Oct 15, 2026

Market capitalisation

404.9M USD Market dataClose of Oct 15, 2026
Market data
Oct 15, 2026
Filed accounts
FY2026, filed Mar 25, 2026
Ratios computed
Oct 15, 2026
Filed years
14, FY2011 to FY2026
Four kinds of sourceSEC filingCompany statementMarket dataComputedWhat each means
SEC filingFiled with the SEC
Read from a statement the company filed with the SEC, with the form, fiscal year, filing date and accession beside it.
Company statementCompany statement
What the company says about itself in a filing: an 8-K item, the auditor, its own segment names.
Market dataMarket data
Prices, market value and what analysts publish, with the date they are as of.
ComputedComputed by ValueScreener
Worked out by us from the other three, with the inputs and the formula one press away. A score is a research output, not a rating or a recommendation.
Reading

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Overview

What the business is, what it costs, and how it reads on four questions.

Market dataSEC filingComputed

Four questions, at a glance

Quality

Return on equity

2.3% Computed

From the FY2026 filing

Read quality

Valuation

Price to earnings

29.23x Computed

FY2026 accounts, priced at the latest close

Read valuation

Cash generation

Free cash flow yield

21.1% Computed

FY2026 accounts, priced at the latest close

Read cash generation

Revenue and net income, as filed

FY2017 Revenue: 2.87B USDFY2017 Net income: 97.4M USDFY2018 Revenue: 2.91B USDFY2018 Net income: -111.8M USDFY2019 Revenue: 2.19B USDFY2019 Net income: -51.9M USDFY2020 Revenue: 2.20B USDFY2020 Net income: 61.4M USDFY2021 Revenue: 1.79B USDFY2021 Net income: -56.4M USDFY2022 Revenue: 2.42B USDFY2022 Net income: 114.8M USDFY2023 Revenue: 2.38B USDFY2023 Net income: 71.9M USDFY2024 Revenue: 2.32B USDFY2024 Net income: -16.8M USDFY2025 Revenue: 2.33B USDFY2025 Net income: -18.9M USDFY2026 Revenue: 2.44B USDFY2026 Net income: 13.3M USD
Revenue Net income10 filed fiscal years, from the annual reports; the table in Filings names each document.
Named tests met
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The business, and the score behind its five axes

The reading, in brief

Is it cheap

Price to earnings is 29.23x at the close of 2026-10-15 on FY2026 figures; the lines are 15.00x (Graham's defensive ceiling) and, by market convention, 10.00x, 25.00x and 40.00x, and this sits between 25.00x and 40.00x.

Today, against the Consumer Cyclical sector (302 companies), 29.23x sits at the 71st percentile; the middle half of that group runs from 12.87x to 31.26x.

Is it good

Return on equity was 2.3% in FY2026, in the band labelled "Likely below the cost of equity" (below 8.0%), on lines anchored on Damodaran's cost-of-capital data, suggesting returns on shareholders' money below the usual cost of equity.

Today, against the Consumer Cyclical sector (436 companies), 2.3% sits at the 42nd percentile; the middle half of that group runs from -19.6% to 16.9%.

Is it safe

Net debt to EBITDA was 5.89x in FY2026, in the band labelled "High, covenant territory" (4.00x and above), on lines set by credit-analyst convention, suggesting debt in the range lenders write covenants around.

Year by year against peers
Whether Genesco Inc.'s return on equity stayed above the median of the Consumer Cyclical sector, year by year. (FY2024 to FY2026, 3 fiscal years of Genesco Inc. with a comparable figure)
The direction
Which way Genesco Inc.'s return on equity has moved, and how steadily. (FY2017 to FY2026, 10 filed years of Genesco Inc.)
What could explain it
What in Genesco Inc.'s filed statements could explain the movements. (9 readings drawn from the statement lines Genesco Inc. filed)
What to check next
What to check next on Genesco Inc., and where in its filings. (4 questions for Genesco Inc.)
In one paragraph
One paragraph on Genesco Inc.'s returns, cash, balance sheet and price. (13 of sixteen figures read for Genesco Inc.)

These are GCO’s filed figures. The research desk says what they mean, against peers and its own years, with what to check next.

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What changed

The newest filing, what it moved, and when the next one is due.

SEC filingCompany statement

The newest accounts on file are the FY2026 annual report: 10-K, filed Mar 25, 2026, accession 0001193125-26-123492.

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Quality

The returns the business earns on its capital, and the margins behind them.

SEC filingComputed

Genesco Inc: returns on capital and margins, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Return on invested capital, after tax
Why n/a

The filed income tax is outside 0 to 100% of pre-tax income (a tax benefit on a profit, a charge on a loss, or a charge above the profit), which is a one-off in the tax line and not a rate operating profit was taxed at, so after-tax operating profit is not computed.

n/a ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Mar 25, 2026, 0001193125-26-123492
Return on equity2.3% ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Mar 25, 2026, 0001193125-26-123492
Return on capital employed, pre-tax1.7% ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Mar 25, 2026, 0001193125-26-123492
Return on assets0.9% ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Mar 25, 2026, 0001193125-26-123492
Gross margin46.3% ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Mar 25, 2026, 0001193125-26-123492
Operating margin0.7% ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Mar 25, 2026, 0001193125-26-123492
Net margin0.5% ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Mar 25, 2026, 0001193125-26-123492
GCO 0.5%
DBI -0.3%SFIX -0.9%CRI 3.2%CTRN 0.6%
-0.9%3.2%
Net margin: GCO against the 4 companies named under Valuation context, each as filed for its own latest year. Placement only: no average is drawn.

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Financial strength

What it owes against what it owns, and whether it can meet what falls due.

SEC filingComputedCompany statement

Genesco Inc: leverage, liquidity and distress, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Debt to equity0.92 ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Mar 25, 2026, 0001193125-26-123492
Current ratio1.64 ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Mar 25, 2026, 0001193125-26-123492
Quick ratio0.49 ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Mar 25, 2026, 0001193125-26-123492
Interest coverage
Why n/a

No interest expense is filed for this year, so coverage is not computed.

n/a ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Mar 25, 2026, 0001193125-26-123492
Altman Z-score2.55 ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2026 10-K, filed Mar 25, 2026, 0001193125-26-123492
Net debt416.0M ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Mar 25, 2026, 0001193125-26-123492
Total assets 1.39BTotal liabilities 825.9MShareholders' equity 567.0MOwnsOwes, and equity
Total assets Total liabilities Shareholders’ equity
The balance sheet, line by line

Financial health

What Genesco Inc owned and owed at the end of fiscal 2026, from the balance sheet it filed (10-K, filed Mar 25, 2026, 0001193125-26-123492).

Genesco Inc: balance sheet position
Total assets1.39B FiledFY2026 10-K, filed Mar 25, 2026
Total liabilities825.9M FiledFY2026 10-K, filed Mar 25, 2026
Shareholders' equity567.0M FiledFY2026 10-K, filed Mar 25, 2026
Cash105.4M FiledFY2026 10-K, filed Mar 25, 2026
Total debt521.4M FiledFY2026 10-K, filed Mar 25, 2026
Net debt416.0M
Current ratio1.64
Debt to equity0.92
  • Interest cover: FY2026: No interest expense is filed for this year, so coverage is not computed.

Read from the filed balance sheet for each year, with the income statement of the same year supplying operating profit where a ratio needs it. Nothing here is a view on whether this company is sound.

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Valuation context

What the market charges for it, against its own record and companies like it.

Market dataSEC filingComputed

Genesco Inc: what the market charges, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Price to earnings29.23x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2026 10-K, filed Mar 25, 2026, 0001193125-26-123492
P/E on trailing twelve months9.08x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · Trailing four quarters, each as known on the day; the quarterly filings are listed under Filings
Price to book0.70x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2026 10-K, filed Mar 25, 2026, 0001193125-26-123492
Price to sales0.16x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2026 10-K, filed Mar 25, 2026, 0001193125-26-123492
Enterprise value to EBIT46.99x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2026 10-K, filed Mar 25, 2026, 0001193125-26-123492
Enterprise value to EBITDA11.52x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2026 10-K, filed Mar 25, 2026, 0001193125-26-123492
Price to earnings over growth
Why n/a

We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

n/a ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2026 10-K, filed Mar 25, 2026, 0001193125-26-123492
Diluted earnings per share1.25 USD FiledFY2026 10-K, filed Mar 25, 2026, 0001193125-26-123492
Graham number39.21 USD ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Mar 25, 2026, 0001193125-26-123492

We publish no fair value or price target of our own. Value GCO on your own assumptions in the DCF workbench, starting from the filed figures.

Its own record, and companies like it

Valuation

What the market charges for Genesco Inc today, and the multiples it has carried. No value of ours: the figures are the filings’ and the market’s.

Genesco Inc: valuation
Share price37.42 USD
Market capitalisation404.9M USD
Enterprise value to EBITDA11.52x
Graham number39.21 USD
Diluted earnings per share, FY20261.25 USD

Price to earnings on trailing twelve months, a different basis from the fiscal-year P/E above, since Oct 3, 2016: low 1.50x, median 7.09x, high 120.55x, latest 9.08x. 1,142 trading days with a meaningful ratio, 1,380 more on a loss and left out. Each close over the trailing twelve months of earnings as known that day: a quarter counts from the day it was filed.

Companies like Genesco Inc

  1. Designer Brands Inc. (DBI)Market cap 328.2M USD
  2. Stitch Fix, Inc. (SFIX)Market cap 303.3M USD
  3. Carter's, Inc. (CRI)Market cap 1.20B USD
  4. Citi Trends, Inc. (CTRN)Market cap 416.5M USD

Same industry (Apparel - Retail) and size band (Small, 300M to 2B), nearest in market value, net margin and current ratio. Each of those counts equally, by how many of the companies considered sit between the two on it. Closest first: the order is likeness and nothing else.

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Cash generation

Whether profit arrives as cash, and what is paid back to shareholders.

SEC filingComputed

Genesco Inc: cash generation and what is paid out, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Free cash flow yield21.1% ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2026 10-K, filed Mar 25, 2026, 0001193125-26-123492
Free cash flow83.7M USD ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Mar 25, 2026, 0001193125-26-123492
Free cash flow margin3.4% ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Mar 25, 2026, 0001193125-26-123492
Dividend yield
Why n/a

We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

n/a ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2026 10-K, filed Mar 25, 2026, 0001193125-26-123492
Payout ratio
Why n/a

We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

n/a ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Mar 25, 2026, 0001193125-26-123492
FY2017 Free cash flow: 71.3M USDFY2017 Net income: 97.4M USDFY2018 Free cash flow: 36.7M USDFY2018 Net income: -111.8M USDFY2019 Free cash flow: 179.9M USDFY2019 Net income: -51.9M USDFY2020 Free cash flow: 87.4M USDFY2020 Net income: 61.4M USDFY2021 Free cash flow: 133.6M USDFY2021 Net income: -56.4M USDFY2022 Free cash flow: 186.0M USDFY2022 Net income: 114.8M USDFY2023 Free cash flow: -224.8M USDFY2023 Net income: 71.9M USDFY2024 Free cash flow: 34.5M USDFY2024 Net income: -16.8M USDFY2025 Free cash flow: 46.8M USDFY2025 Net income: -18.9M USDFY2026 Free cash flow: 83.7M USDFY2026 Net income: 13.3M USD
Free cash flow Net incomeProfit that arrives as cash stands level with net income; a gap year after year is worth reading about.

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Filings

Every figure, the year it is for and the document it was read from.

SEC filingMarket data

The filed figures

Computed from the accounts this company filed with the SEC and, in a ratio with a price in it, the last close, dated on this page. Every filed figure below carries the fiscal year and the filing date its accounts were read from, and every blank carries the reason it is blank. Nothing here is a view on this company.

Genesco Inc.: the eight ratios, with the fiscal year and filing date behind each.
FigureValueYearAs of
29.23xFY2026Oct 15, 2026
0.70xFY2026Oct 15, 2026
46.99xFY2026Oct 15, 2026
21.1%FY2026Oct 15, 2026
n/aFY2026Mar 25, 2026
n/a The filed income tax is outside 0 to 100% of pre-tax income (a tax benefit on a profit, a charge on a loss, or a charge above the profit), which is a one-off in the tax line and not a rate operating profit was taxed at, so after-tax operating profit is not computed.
n/aFY2026Oct 15, 2026
n/a The filed cash flow statement reports no dividend paid at all. That is not the same as a filed zero, and we will not read it as one.
0.92FY2026Mar 25, 2026
1.64FY2026Mar 25, 2026
0.16xFY2026Oct 15, 2026
n/aFY2026Oct 15, 2026
n/a This figure compares a year against the one before it, and we hold one filed year for this company.
2.55FY2026Oct 15, 2026
-2.97FY2026Mar 25, 2026
7/9FY2026Mar 25, 2026

The figures are computed from the accounts for fiscal 2026, the newest full year on file. 14 filed fiscal years on record, FY2011 to FY2026, from SEC EDGAR. Prices as of Oct 15, 2026. Ratios recomputed Oct 15, 2026. Two facts, because a recompute is not a fresh quote.

The year and the filing date name the statement each figure’s accounts are read from, and they stand even where the figure itself could not be computed: the line beneath a blank says what that statement did not carry. A figure’s name opens its formula and the filings behind it; a statement that names no SEC filing has no filing date, and reads n/a.

Ten years of filed figures, year by year

Ten years of filed figures

10 filed fiscal years, FY2017 to FY2026, read from the annual reports Genesco Inc filed with the SEC. Each year names its filing. Amounts in USD, as filed.

Genesco Inc: revenue, earnings, free cash flow and returns, by fiscal year, with the filing each year was read from
YearRevenueOperating incomeNet incomeEPS, dilutedFree cash flowOperating marginReturn on equityFiling
FY20262.44B17.3M13.3M1.2583.7M0.7%2.3%10-K, Mar 25, 20260001193125-26-123492
FY20252.33B13.9M-18.9M-1.7446.8M0.6%-3.5%10-K, Mar 26, 20250000950170-25-044864
FY20242.32B-13.5M-16.8M-1.5034.5M-0.6%-3.0%10-K, Mar 27, 20240000950170-24-036902
FY20232.38B93.2M71.9M5.66-224.8M3.9%11.8%10-K, Mar 22, 20230000950170-23-009103
FY20222.42B155.6M114.8M7.92186.0M6.4%19.1%10-K, Mar 23, 20220000950170-22-004397
FY20211.79B-107.2M-56.4M-3.97133.6M-6.0%-10.0%10-K, Mar 31, 20210001564590-21-016951
FY20202.20B83.3M61.4M3.9287.4M3.8%9.9%10-K, Mar 23, 20220000950170-22-004397
FY20192.19B81.8M-51.9M-2.66179.9M3.7%-7.0%10-K, Apr 3, 20190000018498-19-000016
FY20182.91B74.4M-111.8M-5.8036.7M2.6%-13.5%10-K, Apr 4, 20180000018498-18-000016
FY20172.87B107.8M97.4M4.8371.3M3.8%10.6%10-K, Mar 29, 20170000018498-17-000009
  • Revenue, compound annual growth FY2017 to FY2026: -1.8%
  • Earnings, compound annual growth FY2017 to FY2026: -19.9%
  • Earnings per share, compound annual growth FY2017 to FY2026: -13.9%
  • Free cash flow, compound annual growth FY2017 to FY2026: 1.8%

Every figure in this section is a line of a filed annual statement or a ratio of two of them. Nothing here is estimated or smoothed. Earnings per share filed before a share split are put on today's share count, and say so. Nothing here is a verdict on the company.

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Risks and guardrails

The accounting screens, the published tests, and the lines you can set to be told.

ComputedCompany statement

Genesco Inc: accounting screens and published tests, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Beneish M-score-2.97 ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Mar 25, 2026, 0001193125-26-123492
Piotroski F-score7/9 ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Mar 25, 2026, 0001193125-26-123492
Named tests met7 of 30 Computed
Beta1.84 ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026

The named tests

Of 30 tests value investors published: 7 met, 17 not met, 6 we could not complete. Counts, never a score: a single figure would have to decide that meeting one investor’s criteria and meeting another’s are worth the same.

Which tests, by name(all 30)
Meets
Deep value; Gross margin, turnover (Robert Novy-Marx); P/E times P/B (Benjamin Graham); Low P/S, rising earnings (James O'Shaughnessy); Book or below, low debt (Walter Schloss); Tangible book or below; Cheapest quarter on P/B (David Dreman)
Does not
Defensive investor (Benjamin Graham); Large cap, low P/E; Earnings yield and ROIC (Joel Greenblatt); High F-score, low P/B (Joseph Piotroski); Three forensic scores; Low PEG, low debt (Peter Lynch); High returns and growth; EV/EBITDA and coverage; Low beta, profitable; Near the 52-week low; Z-score and coverage (Edward Altman); Two thirds of NCAV (Benjamin Graham); High returns, low debt; Owner earnings yield; High return on tangibles; Cheapest quarter on P/E (David Dreman); Low P/E, growth, yield (John Neff)
Not measured
High yield, low payout; Dividends and buybacks; ROIC at or above WACC; Cash-covered dividend; Cash-flow yield and ROIC; Clean books, high ROIC. A test with a figure we could not read is incomplete, never met and never failed.
Figures we could not read(9)
  • Return on Invested Capital: The filed income tax is outside 0 to 100% of pre-tax income (a tax benefit on a profit, a charge on a loss, or a charge above the profit), which is a one-off in the tax line and not a rate operating profit was taxed at, so after-tax operating profit is not computed.
  • PEG Ratio: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Eps Growth 5Y: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Interest Coverage: No interest expense is filed for this year, so coverage is not computed.
  • Dividend Yield: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Payout Ratio: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • ROIC-WACC Spread: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Dividend Coverage Ratio: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Dividend Streak: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

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Declared positions

Whether anybody here owns this company.

Positions declared by Javier Sanz Alvarez: no holding in any company shown here, as of October 3, 2026.

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What this cannot tell you

  • 9 figures could not be read on this company, among them Return on Invested Capital, PEG Ratio, Eps Growth 5Y. Each blank in the table above names the rest, with its reason. 6 named tests come back incomplete because of them, which is neither met nor missed.

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