Designer Brands Inc.
Designer Brands Inc. (DBI) is listed on NYSE and classified in Footwear & Accessories, part of the Consumer Cyclical sector. It is headquartered in Columbus, United States and has 13,000 employees. The company is worth $334.86M and trades at 22.6x its earnings of the last twelve months; the median for its sector is 17.7x. Revenue was $2.89B in fiscal 2026, down 3.9% from the year before. It reported a net loss of $8.37M. The share price is 28.6% below its 52-week high of $9.17. It pays a dividend yielding 3.05%. 5 of the 38 superinvestors we track held it at the end of Q2 2026. The largest position belongs to Two Sigma (Two Sigma Investments), at $6.67M. In that quarter, 2 of them reduced the position. No open-market insider trades in it were filed over the last 30 days.
Written from the data on this page: SEC filings (13F, Form 4, annual reports) and market prices.
Year by year, from the annual reports; dividends from the payments themselves.
Bars are year-end balances; lines are what happened during the year.
Major managers that reported this stock in their latest 13F.
▼ -54.8% over 5Y.
today you would have $525.05▼ -47.5%
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
The last 17 closed years, each at that year’s closing price and reported numbers.
| Indicator | Median | 2026 | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year-end price | $6.19 | $7.43 | $5.34 | $8.85 | $9.78 | $14.21 | $7.65 | $15.74 | $24.70 | $21.41 | $22.65 | $23.86 | $37.30 | $42.73 | $32.85 | $22.10 | $19.55 | |
| P/E |
Seven formulas applied to the reported numbers, each with its assumption next to the result. None of them predicts a price.
Square root of 22.5 × earnings × book value. Blind to intangibles, so it undervalues software and brands.
Earnings growing 0.0% a year plus a 3.1% dividend yield. Growth capped at 25%.
Median P/E of 17.7 among peers in the sector.
Median P/E of 14.3 across this company’s own years on record.
Cash flow growing 5.0% a year for 10 years, discounted at 10%, then 2.5% forever.
Sector median of 10.3x operating profit, less net debt. Banks have no EBITDA.
Dividend growing 0.0% a year against a 10.2% required return, from the stock’s beta.
Companies of similar size in Consumer Cyclical, for comparison. The columns are the same ones above, in the same order.
| Stock | Price | P/E | P/B | Dividend yield | ROE | Market cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ECXECARX Holdings Inc. | $0.85 | — | — | 0.00% | — | $333.85M |
| ORBSEightco Holdings Inc. | $0.79 | — | 0.9x | 0.00% | -157.35% | $337.72M |
| JAKKJakks Pacific Inc | $29.54 | 20.8x | 1.4x | 3.39% | 6.67% | $338.09M |
| JILLJ.Jill, Inc. | $22.85 |
| 14.3x |
| — |
| — |
| 11.6x |
| 3.9x |
| 4.9x |
| — |
| 6.0x |
| — |
| 29.4x |
| 14.2x |
| 14.7x |
| 14.1x |
| 22.6x |
| 26.4x |
| 14.5x |
| 53.9x |
| — |
| P/S | 0.5x | 0.1x | 0.1x | 0.1x | 0.2x | 0.2x | 0.5x | 0.2x | 0.4x | 0.7x | 0.6x | 0.8x | 0.9x | 1.4x | 1.7x | 1.2x | 0.5x | 0.5x |
| P/B | 2.1x | 1.1x | 1.4x | 0.9x | 1.5x | 1.8x | — | — | — | — | — | — | 2.1x | 3.4x | 4.5x | 3.1x | 3.9x | 2.1x |
| EPS | -$0.17 | -$0.20 | $0.46 | $2.26 | $2.00 | -$6.77 | $1.27 | -$0.26 | $0.84 | $1.51 | $1.54 | $1.69 | $1.65 | $1.62 | $2.27 | $0.41 | -$0.62 |
| Dividend yield | 3.35% | 2.42% | 2.69% | 3.75% | 2.26% | 2.04% | — | 1.31% | 6.35% | 4.05% | 3.74% | 3.53% | 3.35% | 2.02% | 0.88% | 4.37% | 5.20% | — |
| Payout | 46.46% | — | — | 43.48% | 8.85% | 10.00% | — | 7.87% | — | 119.05% | 52.98% | 51.95% | 47.34% | 45.58% | 23.15% | 63.22% | 280.49% | — |
| Profit margin | 2.71% | -0.29% | -0.35% | 0.95% | 4.91% | 4.83% | -21.87% | 2.71% | -0.64% | 2.40% | 4.58% | 5.19% | 6.14% | 6.39% | 6.49% | 8.63% | 0.98% | -1.63% |
| ROE | 15.15% | -2.96% | -3.79% | 8.09% | 37.58% | 37.46% | — | — | — | — | — | — | 15.16% | 15.15% | 17.06% | 22.22% | 7.26% | -6.47% |
Median of the years shown; P/E years above 200x are left out.
The average of the method families that answered, not of the seven numbers: four of the seven start from the same earnings per share.
7 methods answered, across 4 families.
Room for errors in the reported numbers.
+49.9% from the average.
Models, not forecasts, and not investment advice. How each formula works →
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| 2.4x |
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| 20.78% |
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