Caleres
Caleres' revenue rose 1.3% to $2.8 billion in fiscal 2025. Its operating margin was 0.2%, down from 5.5% a year earlier. Free cash flow was $39 million, down 28.8%. It paid out $14 million in dividends and buybacks, 37% of free cash flow. The diluted share count fell 3.0%.
Operating margin is operating income as a share of revenue. Free cash flow is cash from operations minus capital spending. Return on capital is after-tax operating income as a share of the money invested in the business: debt plus equity, minus cash. Market cap is the last closing share price times the latest diluted share count, so it is approximate. P/E is the last close divided by diluted earnings per share over the last four quarters, or the latest fiscal year where the quarters aren't available; there is none when the company made a loss.
Charts show fiscal years, from the 10-K filings.
What Caleres does
Caleres is a global footwear company, founded in 1878 as Brown Shoe Company. It runs shoe stores and e-commerce sites, and it designs, sources, makes and distributes footwear for all ages. Women's footwear makes up the largest share of its net sales, followed by men's, children's, and clothing and accessories.
It reports two segments. Famous Footwear is a family retailer with 821 stores at the end of 2025 plus two websites, selling mainly brand-name footwear from makers such as Nike, Skechers, adidas, Crocs and Converse, along with some company-owned and licensed brands.
Brand Portfolio designs, sources and sells branded, licensed and private-label footwear, wholesale to online retailers, national chains, department stores and others, and through its own stores and websites. Its brands include Sam Edelman, Naturalizer, Allen Edmonds and Stuart Weitzman. At the end of 2025 it had 81 stores in the United States, four in Canada and 103 in East and Southeast Asia, and franchise partners ran 148 international branded stores.
Its biggest risks, as it describes them
- U.S. and international trade policy, including tariffs and trade restrictions.
- Weaker consumer demand, inflation and supply chain disruptions.
- Failing to anticipate fashion trends and consumer preferences.
- Loss of major branded suppliers, or sales lost through customer concentration.
- Heavy competition and pricing pressure, and swings in currency rates that raise costs.
Income statement
From fiscal 2016 to 2024, earnings per share grew 9.3% a year and net income 6.3% a year, as buybacks cut the share count by 21%. Caleres then lost money in fiscal 2025.
Returns on capital
Balance sheet
Five years at a glance
| Fiscal year end | FY21 | FY22 | FY23 | FY24 | FY25 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash and short-term investments | 30 | 34 | 21 | 30 | 30 |
| Debt incl. finance leases | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Net debt (negative means net cash) | −30 | −34 | −21 | −30 | −30 |
| Net debt to EBITDA | −0.1x | −0.1x | −0.1x | −0.1x | −0.5x |
| Debt to equity | 0.0x | 0.0x | 0.0x | 0.0x | 0.0x |
| Interest coverage | 10.1x | 17.1x | 9.9x | 11.5x | 0.4x |
| Current ratio | 0.8x | 0.9x | 1.1x | 1.1x | 1.0x |
| Quick ratio | 0.2x | 0.3x | 0.3x | 0.4x | 0.3x |
Cash flow
Projections
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Insider trades
No officer, director or 10% owner of Caleres reported buying or selling its shares on the open market between November 7, 2025 and November 6, 2026.
Indicators
Four widely used measures, worked out from the company's filings. The cutoffs are the ones their authors or users go by, not a verdict of ours.
| Indicator | FY23 | FY24 | FY25 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Piotroski F-score | 6 of 9 | 5 of 9 | 3 of 9 |
| Rule of 40 | 0.4% | −1.3% | 2.7% |
| Altman Z'' | 2.11 | 2.06 | 1.25 |
| Accruals ratio | −1.6% | 0.1% | −5.7% |
The nine F-score tests
| Test | FY23 | FY24 | FY25 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Net income is positive | Pass | Pass | Fail |
| Cash from operations is positive | Pass | Pass | Pass |
| Return on assets rose | Fail | Fail | Fail |
| Cash from operations exceeds net income | Pass | Fail | Pass |
| Debt fell relative to assets | Fail | Fail | Fail |
| Current ratio rose | Pass | Pass | Fail |
| Share count didn't rise | Pass | Pass | Pass |
| Gross margin rose | Pass | Pass | Fail |
| Revenue rose relative to assets | Fail | Fail | Fail |
| F-score | 6 of 9 | 5 of 9 | 3 of 9 |
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| Caleres | FY25 | 1.3% | 0.2% | 1.4% | 0.9% | −0.5x | 3 | |
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10 years of figures
| Fiscal year | FY16 | FY17 | FY18 | FY19 | FY20 | FY21 | FY22 | FY23 | FY24 | FY25 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Income statement | ||||||||||
| Revenue | 91 | 85 | 86 | 2,922 | 2,117 | 2,778 | 2,968 | 2,817 | 2,723 | 2,758 |
| Revenue growth | −8.8% | −6.9% | 0.5% | 3,316.5% | −27.5% | 31.2% | 6.9% | −5.1% | −3.4% | 1.3% |
| Gross profit | 1,062 | 1,169 | 1,156 | 1,184 | 787 | 1,227 | 1,285 | 1,263 | 1,222 | 1,185 |
| Research and development | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Operating income | 96 | 128 | 0 | 104 | −486 | 206 | 214 | 194 | 150 | 6 |
| Net income | 66 | 87 | −5 | 63 | −439 | 137 | 182 | 171 | 107 | −7 |
| Diluted EPS (US$) | 1.52 | 2.02 | −0.13 | 1.53 | −11.80 | 3.56 | 4.92 | 4.80 | 3.09 | −0.21 |
| Diluted shares (millions) | 42 | 42 | 42 | 40 | 37 | 37 | 35 | 34 | 34 | 32 |
| Cash flow | ||||||||||
| Cash from operations | 184 | 191 | 130 | 171 | 126 | 168 | 126 | 200 | 105 | 103 |
| Capital expenditure | 50 | 45 | 62 | 44 | 17 | 18 | 56 | 45 | 49 | 64 |
| Free cash flow | 133 | 147 | 67 | 126 | 110 | 150 | 70 | 156 | 55 | 39 |
| Dividends paid | 12 | 12 | 12 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 9 |
| Share buybacks | 23 | 6 | 44 | 33 | 23 | 17 | 63 | 17 | 65 | 5 |
| Acquisitions | 260 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 109 |
| Stock-based compensation | 8 | 11 | 14 | 10 | 8 | 12 | 17 | 15 | 15 | 12 |
| Balance sheet at fiscal year end | ||||||||||
| Cash and short-term investments | 55 | 64 | 30 | 45 | 88 | 30 | 34 | 21 | 30 | 30 |
| Debt incl. finance leases | 197 | 198 | 198 | 198 | 199 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total assets | 1,475 | 1,489 | 1,839 | 2,432 | 1,867 | 1,844 | 1,836 | 1,805 | 1,895 | 1,966 |
| Total liabilities | 861 | 770 | 1,203 | 1,783 | 1,663 | 1,520 | 1,410 | 1,237 | 1,289 | 1,357 |
| Shareholders' equity | 613 | 718 | 634 | 646 | 200 | 319 | 421 | 561 | 599 | 602 |
| Margins and ratios | ||||||||||
| Gross margin | 1,161.7% | 1,372.9% | 1,352.2% | 40.5% | 37.2% | 44.2% | 43.3% | 44.8% | 44.9% | 43.0% |
| Operating margin | 105.0% | 150.0% | 0.5% | 3.5% | −22.9% | 7.4% | 7.2% | 6.9% | 5.5% | 0.2% |
| Net margin | 71.8% | 102.4% | −6.4% | 2.1% | −20.7% | 4.9% | 6.1% | 6.1% | 3.9% | −0.2% |
| Free cash flow margin | 145.6% | 172.3% | 78.5% | 4.3% | 5.2% | 5.4% | 2.4% | 5.5% | 2.0% | 1.4% |
| Rule of 40 (growth + FCF margin) | 136.8% | 165.4% | 78.9% | 3,320.8% | −22.4% | 36.6% | 9.2% | 0.4% | −1.3% | 2.7% |
| Return on capital | 9.1% | 11.3% | 0.0% | 10.2% | −68.7% | 49.5% | 52.7% | 39.3% | 21.0% | 0.9% |
| Return on equity | 10.8% | 13.1% | −0.8% | 9.8% | −103.8% | 52.8% | 49.2% | 34.9% | 18.5% | −1.1% |
| Return on assets | 4.7% | 5.9% | −0.3% | 2.9% | −20.4% | 7.4% | 9.9% | 9.4% | 5.8% | −0.3% |
| Net debt to EBITDA | 0.9x | 0.7x | 2.7x | 0.9x | — | −0.1x | −0.1x | −0.1x | −0.1x | −0.5x |