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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-25-078585"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BURL"
cik: "0001579298"
company_name: "Burlington Stores, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-05-29T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-20T05:50:31.540819+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.8
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Burlington Stores Q1 sales +6%, comps flat; adjusted EPS $1.67 beats guidance; maintains FY outlook

## Summary
- Q1 total sales up 6% to $2.5B; comparable store sales flat; net income $101M ($1.58 diluted EPS).
- Adjusted EPS $1.67, up 18% YoY, ahead of guidance; adjusted EBIT margin +30bps, also ahead.
- FY 2025 adjusted EPS guidance reaffirmed at $8.70-$9.30; Q2 adjusted EPS guided $1.20-$1.30.
- Board authorized additional $500M share repurchase through May 2027; Q1 repurchased 445K shares for $105M.
- CEO notes tariff uncertainty but confident offsets exist to achieve original guidance.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-25-078585
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BURL
- cik: 0001579298
- company_name: Burlington Stores, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-05-29T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.8
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1579298/000095017025078585/0000950170-25-078585-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1579298/000095017025078585/burl-20250529.htm

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