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Designer Brands Inc. (DBI)

As-reported financials and SEC filings for Designer Brands Inc. The latest annual period is FY2025. The latest reported quarter is Q2 FY2026. Financial statements come straight from the company’s EDGAR filings; valuation figures such as P/E and market cap use market data.

About Designer Brands Inc.

Designer Brands Inc. operates as a designer, producer, and retailer of footwear and accessories through two main segments: Retail and Brand Portfolio. The Retail segment runs stores and e-commerce sites under banners such as DSW Designer Shoe Warehouse, The Shoe Co., and Rubino, serving customers in the U.S. and Canada with a variety of footwear and accessories. The Brand Portfolio segment designs and sources exclusive and licensed brands, including Vince Camuto, Keds, and Topo, selling wholesale to retailers and directly to consumers online.

Snapshot

Revenue
$2.89B
Revenue growth (YoY)
-3.9%
Net income
$-8.4M
Diluted EPS
$-0.17
Gross margin
—
Operating margin
1.7%
Net margin
-0.3%
FCF margin
2.7%
ROE
-3.0%
net income / fiscal-year-end equity
P/E
n/m
not meaningful: a reported loss in the fiscal year or the trailing twelve months
Market cap
$299.6M
Long-term debt / equity
1.53×
non-current term debt only

Fundamentals are from SEC filings for FY2025, the latest annual period (ended January 31, 2026). P/E and market cap are derived from stored market prices, last retrieved on a rolling basis and typically within the past week.

What changed at Designer Brands

  • Revenue fell 3.9% to $2.9B in FY2025, after a 2.1% decline the year before.
  • Operating margin is 1.7% in FY2025, -4.8 pp against 6.4% in FY2021.
  • Most recent quarter Q2 FY2026: revenue $731M, down 1.2% from Q2 FY2025.
  • Free cash flow was $78M in FY2025, 2.7% of revenue.
  • Net loss narrowed to $8M in FY2025, from $11M in FY2024.

Computed from the as-reported figures in the statements below. A change we cannot state from filed figures is left out rather than estimated.

Peer comparison

Where Designer Brands’s fundamentals sit among the 410 Consumer Discretionary companies. Each figure is ranked only against peers that report it, from lowest (left) to highest (right).

Operating margin1.7%
38th percentile of 348
Net margin-0.3%
31st percentile of 384
FCF margin2.7%
40th percentile of 358
Revenue growth (YoY)-3.9%
25th percentile of 401
ROE-3.0%
31st percentile of 349
Long-term debt / equity1.53×
81st percentile of 236
Short interest7.99d
86th percentile of 408

No reported insider purchases (code P) in the last 90 days; 3 insider sales totaling $271,120. For context, about 15% of companies in the universe saw any reported insider purchase (code P) in the same window. Browse insider activity →

Percentiles describe where a figure sits among sector peers reporting it (100th = highest). They are position within a peer group, not a rating, and not investment advice. Short interest ranking uses days to cover from FINRA Consolidated Short Interest data; FINRA is the owner and source of that data, included at no additional charge.

Institutional ownership

Held by 6 quant / multi-strat books among the superinvestors we track; no conviction manager currently reports a position.

Conviction investors
0
+6 quant / multi-strat
Initiated / added
2
1 new, 1 added
Reduced / exited
5
4 trimmed, 1 exited
Combined position
$13.3M
reported long value
InvestorAs ofPosition valueSharesChange
Two Sigma InvestmentsquantQ2 2026$6.7M1.1MReduced
D. E. ShawquantQ2 2026$2.9M505.9KReduced
Renaissance TechnologiesquantQ2 2026$1.5M252.4KReduced
Citadel AdvisorsquantQ2 2026$1.0M175.6KAdded
AQR Capital ManagementquantQ2 2026$958,064164.3KReduced
Point72 Asset ManagementquantQ2 2026$249,36142.8KNew

No longer held by: Gotham Asset Management (as of Q2 2026)

From quarterly Form 13F filings, which can be up to 45 days delayed. Long US-listed positions only: excludes short positions, options, cash, bonds, and non-US holdings, so this is not a manager’s complete portfolio. Counts are of the investors we track, not all institutions. Not investment advice.

Recent insider activity

Non-derivative buys and sells (codes P/S) reported by officers, directors and 10% owners on SEC Form 4.

Buys (90d)
0
code P
Bought (90d)
—
code P value
Sells (90d)
3
$271K
Reported activity
Net selling
by $ value, 90d
Trade dateInsiderTypeSharesPriceValue
2026-09-17
filed 2026-09-21
Harvey L. SonnenbergDirectorSell24.0K$6.15$148K
2026-09-14
filed 2026-09-15
Mark HaleySVP, Controller & PAOSell17.7K$6.37$113K
2026-09-11
filed 2026-09-15
Mark HaleySVP, Controller & PAOSell1.8K$6.01$11K
2026-06-10
filed 2026-06-12
Mary TurnerEVP;Pres DesignerBrands CanadaSell34.7K$7.00$243K

Reported non-derivative purchases and sales (codes P/S), which may be open-market or private. Excludes option exercises, grants, and shares withheld for taxes. Dates shown are the trade date; a Form 4 can be filed days to years later. A sale can be routine (e.g. a pre-set 10b5-1 plan), so read individual transactions in context. From SEC Form 4. Not investment advice.

Short interest

Total shares sold short as of each twice-monthly FINRA settlement. Rising short interest means more investors are positioned against the stock; days to cover estimates how many trading days of average volume that position represents.

Shares short
5.6M
settled 2026-09-30
Change vs prior
+4.7%
vs previous settlement
Days to cover
7.99
at avg daily volume
Avg daily volume
701.0K
FINRA reported
SettlementShares shortChangeDays to cover
2026-09-305.6M+4.7%7.99
2026-09-155.4M+3.8%5.89
2026-08-315.2M-3.1%10.67
2026-08-145.3M-3.3%14.14
2026-07-315.5M+0.6%12.97
2026-07-155.5M+0.0%8.91
2026-06-305.5M+4.6%6.25
2026-06-155.2M-25.3%5.05

Source: FINRA Consolidated Short Interest. FINRA is the owner and source of the FINRA-supplied data, which is included at no additional charge for your own personal or professional use; republishing or redistributing it is not permitted. Settlement dates are shown; FINRA publishes each settlement about nine business days later, so the latest figure can be two to four weeks old. Not presented as a percentage of float. No FINRA endorsement of this product is implied. Not investment advice.

Income statement (as reported)

 FY2025FY2024FY2023FY2022FY2021
Revenue$2.89B$3.01B$3.07B$3.32B$3.20B
Gross profit—————
Operating income$47.8M$34.9M$72.4M$187.4M$205.2M
Net income$-8.4M$-10.5M$29.1M$162.7M$154.5M
Diluted EPS$-0.17$-0.20$0.46$2.26$2.00

Figures as reported to the SEC. Underlined values link to the filing they came from; dotted values are calculated by us from reported figures; “adj” means restated for a stock split (tap or hover a figure to see how it was calculated or what was filed). Full details: where the numbers come from.

Balance sheet (as reported)

Figures as reported to the SEC. Underlined values link to the filing they came from; dotted values are calculated by us from reported figures; “adj” means restated for a stock split (tap or hover a figure to see how it was calculated or what was filed). Full details: where the numbers come from.

Cash flow (as reported)

 FY2025FY2024FY2023FY2022FY2021
Operating cash flow$109.9M$82.2M$162.4M$201.4M$171.4M
Capital expenditure$31.6M$50.9M$55.0M$55.0M$33.0M
Free cash flow

Figures as reported to the SEC. Underlined values link to the filing they came from; dotted values are calculated by us from reported figures; “adj” means restated for a stock split (tap or hover a figure to see how it was calculated or what was filed). Full details: where the numbers come from.

Quarterly trend

QuarterRevenueRevenue YoYNet incomeDiluted EPS
Q2 FY2026$730.6M-1.2%$17.6M$0.31
Q1 FY2026$696.4M1.4%$1.2M$0.02
Q4 FY20250.0%
Q3 FY2025$752.4M-3.2%$18.2M$0.35
Q2 FY2025$739.8M-4.2%$10.5M$0.21
Q1 FY2025$686.9M-8.0%$-17.8M$-0.37
Q4 FY2024-5.4%
Q3 FY2024$777.2M-1.2%$13.0M$0.24

Latest 8 quarters, from company XBRL filings on SEC EDGAR. A dotted underline marks a fourth-quarter figure we calculated from the full year and the first nine months. Revenue YoY is our calculation too: each quarter against the same quarter a year earlier.

Company facts

ExchangeNYSE
SectorConsumer Discretionary
SIC industryRetail-Shoe Stores
Latest annual periodFY2025 (ended January 31, 2026)
Latest reported quarterQ2 FY2026 (ended August 1, 2026)
Oldest indexed filing2019
SEC CIK1319947

Selected SEC filings

10-Q2026-09-10
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10-Q2026-06-09
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8-K2026-09-10
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8-K2026-06-18
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8-K2026-06-11
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8-K2026-06-09
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Data sourced from SEC EDGAR. Figures are as-reported and may be unaudited or restated; verify against the source filing before relying on them. Informational only. Not investment advice.