Burlington Stores Historical PE Ratio
This BURL historical PE ratio page, which was last updated 5/20/2026, presents historical price to earnings information for Burlington Stores under both the TTM method and
the annualized method, and presented in both tabular and graphical format for ease of study.
BURL Historical PE Ratio Notes
— Burlington Stores, Inc. (BURL) operates as a major off-price retailer in the United States, focusing on offering branded apparel, footwear, accessories, home goods, and other merchandise at significant discounts compared to traditional department and specialty stores. As a “treasure hunt” shopping destination, Burlington generates sales from value-conscious consumers seeking quality products at lower prices, which has historically enabled the company to achieve steady revenue growth and resist economic slowdowns more than full-price retailers. This business model directly impacts BURL’s historical price-to-earnings (PE) ratio: during periods of economic uncertainty or consumer belt-tightening, investors may assign Burlington a higher PE ratio, anticipating resilient earnings. Conversely, in times when consumer spending surges and competition from e-commerce or other discount retailers intensifies, the market might compress BURL’s PE ratio due to concerns over margin pressure and future growth. As you review BURL’s historical price, earnings, and PE ratio charts, keep in mind that the company’s sector, its proven ability to perform in volatile retail environments, and broader macro trends have traditionally influenced how investors value its earnings stream.
How should the BURL historical PE ratio be determined?
Realizing that PE stands for Price to Earnings ratio, we need two values to compute it: stock price and earnings per share. The stock price at any given date is a known historical value, but what about the earnings number to use?
✔️Accepted answer:
There are a number of different approaches when it comes to calculating a historical PE ratio for a company like Burlington Stores. We like to take our measurements on each of the past quarterly earnings reports. That only leaves the question of whether the earnings number at that quarterly report should be used on an annualized basis, or some other method. We approach this question using three different methods, on this BURL Historical PE Ratio page.
What is the average historical PE for BURL based on annualized quarterly earnings?
As we look back through earnings history, what is the resulting PE calculation if at each measurement period we use that quarter's earnings result annualized?
✔️Accepted answer:
The BURL historical PE ratio using the annualized quarterly earnings method works out to 41.1.
What is the average historical PE for BURL based on trailing twelve month earnings?
As we look back through earnings history, what is the resulting PE calculation if at each measurement period we use the trailing twelve months combined earnings result in the calculation?
✔️Accepted answer:
The BURL historical PE ratio using the TTM earnings method works out to 34.2.
What is the average historical PE for BURL based on median TTM earnings?
As we look back through earnings history, what is the resulting PE calculation if at each measurement period we use the median earnings over the trailing twelve months and annualize that median result in the calculation?
✔️Accepted answer:
The BURL historical PE ratio using the annualized median TTM earnings method works out to 7.04.
On this page we presented the
BURL Historical PE Ratio information for Burlington Stores' stock.
The average BURL historical PE based on using the annualized quarterly earnings result at each measurement period (for the "E" in the PE calculation; and the closing price on earnings date as the "P") is 41.1. Meanwhile, using the trailing twelve month (TTM) quarterly earnings result as our method of calculation the "E" value at each measurement period, the average BURL historical PE based on this TTM earnings result method is 34.2. Note: any PE calculations involving negative earnings were discarded as not meaningful.
Let's now compare this BURL historical PE result, against the recent PE: when this page was posted on 5/19/2026, the most recent closing price for BURL had been 286.10, and the most recent quarterly earnings result, annualized, was 19.96. Meanwhile, the most recent TTM earnings summed to 10.11. From these numbers, we calculate the recent BURL PE on 5/19/2026 based on annualized quarterly EPS was 14.3. Based on BURL's history, that recent PE is low relative to the historical average, with the recent PE 65.2% lower than the historical average PE across our data set for Burlington Stores. Looking at the recent BURL PE on 5/19/2026 based on TTM EPS, we calculate the ratio at 28.3. Based on BURL's history, that recent PE is low relative to the historical average, with the recent PE 17.3% lower than the average PE across our Burlington Stores data set with TTM EPS used in the calculation at each period.
Another interesting BURL historical PE Ratio calculation we look at is to take the
median earnings per share of the last four quarters for BURL, and then annualize the resulting value... with that annualized number then being used in the PE calculation. To walk through this math for BURL, we start with the past four EPS numbers and we first sort them from lowest to highest: 1.60, 1.72, 1.80, and 4.99. We then toss out the highest and lowest result, and then take the average of those two middle numbers — 1.72 and 1.80 — which gives us the median of 1.76. Basically the way to think about this 1.76 number is this: for the trailing four earnings reports, 1.76 marks the "middle ground" number where BURL has reported a value
higher than 1.76 half the time, and has reported a value
lower than 1.76 half the time. Annualizing that median value then gets us to 7.04/share, which we use as the denominator in our next PE calculation. With 286.10 as the numerator (as of 5/19/2026), the calculation is then 286.10 / 7.04 =
40.6 as the BURL PE ratio as of 5/19/2026, based on that annualized median value we calculated.
For self directed investors doing their due diligence on BURL or any other given stock, valuation analysis for BURL
can greatly benefit from studying the past earnings and resulting PE calculations. This exercise can help inform an analysis
as to whether the past earnings trajectory and current versus historical PE ratios justify the current stock value.
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Burlington Stores PE history or the past PE information for any stock in our coverage universe.
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