---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000745732-25-000007"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ROST"
cik: "0000745732"
company_name: "ROSS STORES, INC."
filed_at: "2025-03-04T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-25T16:22:26.324169+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Ross Stores Q4 EPS $1.79, sales $5.9B; guides Q1 EPS $1.33-$1.47; raises dividend 10%

## Summary
- Q4 EPS $1.79 (vs $1.82 prior 14-week period); net income $587M; sales $5.9B; comps +3%.
- Full-year fiscal 2024 EPS $6.32 (up from $5.56); net earnings $2.1B on sales $21.1B.
- One-time $0.14 EPS benefit from packaway facility sale in Q4 and full year.
- Raises quarterly dividend 10% to $0.405/share; payable March 31, 2025; record March 18, 2025.
- Guidance: Q1 comps -3% to flat, EPS $1.33-$1.47; FY comps -1% to +2%, EPS $5.95-$6.55 (ex $0.14 benefit).

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000745732-25-000007
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ROST
- cik: 0000745732
- company_name: ROSS STORES, INC.
- filed_at: 2025-03-04T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/745732/000074573225000007/0000745732-25-000007-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/745732/000074573225000007/rost-20250304.htm

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