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KSS Kohl's Corporation

Consumer Cyclical

quality needs a look, fair valuation.

Quality
Weak
Valuation
Fair
Key signals
Top-quintile 6-month momentum
17.90
17.9 Close (USD) Loading candles…

Is Kohl's Corporation a buy? Fundamentals and valuation first

  • Quality is weaker than peers. Operating margin is only around the 43th percentile. TTM ROE is about 6.5%.

  • Valuation is middle-of-pack. TTM P/E is near the 55th percentile.

  • Recent volatility is moderate. 60-day annualized volatility is near the 61th percentile. Average 20-day dollar volume is about $71.3M.

  • Signals are active now. Top-quintile 6-month momentum currently holds; the tables below show what followed in this stock’s own history.

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Historical evidence

Signals active now

Each active condition is tested against this stock’s own history and benchmarked versus the S&P 500.

Top-quintile 6-month momentum

Active · now 84.11214953271028%

The stock ranks in the top 20% of the liquid US common-stock universe by 126-day adjusted return.

17 historical occurrences (since 2016-11-09)
Average forward return after Top-quintile 6-month momentum。20-day: Win 43.8%, Sample 16, Median -3.29%, Excess -0.96%, Beat mkt rate 43.8%；60-day: Win 43.8%, Sample 16, Median -3.11%, Excess -3.54%, Beat mkt rate 37.5%；120-day: Win 31.2%, Sample 16, Median -6.66%, Excess -8.06%, Beat mkt rate 25%

120 days after: historical avg -2.28%

20-day +0.01%
60-day -0.19%
120-day -2.28%
20-day
60-day
120-day
Win
43.8%
43.8%
31.2%
Sample
16
16
16
Median
-3.29%
-3.11%
-6.66%
Excess
-0.96%
-3.54%
-8.06%
Beat mkt rate
43.8%
37.5%
25%

Over 16 occurrences, 120-day forward avg declined 2.28%, lagged the market by 8.06 pts; win rate 31.2%.

Valuation regime and forward returns

Daily TTM P/E is converted into an expanding own-history percentile, then grouped into five valuation regimes. Forward returns use adjusted prices over the next 240 trading days.

PE percentile bandSample days240-day avg returnMedianWin rateAvg excess (vs index)
0-20 525+3.6% -32.2% 29% -21.6%
20-40 You are here239-17.2% -47.1% 33.9% -34%
40-60 39-10.7% -45.2% 41% -9%
60-80 18Insufficient data
80-100 133+65% +20.5% 51.9% +52.4%

Quarterly EPS is aligned by SEC filing date before it is forward-filled to daily prices. The expanding percentile uses only information available up to each day.

Current TTM P/E is about 7.72, placing it in the 26.9 own-history percentile, inside the 20-40 bucket.

Valuation × momentum analogs

Each historical day is grouped by own-history P/E tercile and 60-day momentum direction, then tested for the next 120-trading-day adjusted return.

Valuation
Momentum
Cheap (own-history bottom third)
Middle
Expensive (own-history top third)
60-day momentum up
-21.6%
Win rate 8% Excess -27.3%
162d
+12.7%
Win rate 44.9% Excess +8.1%
107d
+62.3%
Win rate 66.4% Excess +40.8%
116d
60-day momentum down
Now
+13.3%
Win rate 35.6% Excess +0.1%
595d
+17.4%
Win rate 73.3% Excess +14.2%
30d
+27%
Win rate 45.3% Excess +16%
64d

Currently in “Cheap (own-history bottom third) × 60-day momentum down”: across 595 historical days, 120-day forward avg gained 13.3%, win rate 35.6%, beat the market by 0.1%.

Days = trading days in this bucket; returns use adjusted prices, ex-costs. 60-day momentum: direction of this stock's price over the past 60 trading days.

Market-wide momentum baseline

Across 98,702 liquid US common-stock samples, top-quintile 6-month momentum was followed by an average 60-trading-day return of +6.12%, a 57.8% positive-return rate, and +2.76 percentage points of average excess return versus the S&P 500.

Baseline: weekly samples since 2016 where a liquid US common stock ranked in the top quintile by 126-trading-day momentum. Forward return is 60 trading days; excess return is versus S&P 500 (^GSPC).

Signals not active now

Inactive signals still show the stock-specific historical forward-return distribution for context.

52-week adjusted-price high

Pending

Adjusted close first reaches a 252-trading-day high; repeated hits within 20 days count once.

6 times historically; 60-day forward avg +3.97%, win rate 66.7%, beating the market by -0.3 pts on average.

Filed revenue acceleration

Pending

TTM revenue growth is at least 10% and improved versus the prior filed quarter; event date is the SEC filing date.

EPS surprise beat

Pending

Reported EPS beat consensus estimate by at least 5%; event date is the earnings-surprise timestamp.

30 times historically; 60-day forward avg +5.16%, win rate 44.4%, beating the market by +1.54 pts on average.

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Method and limits

  • Returns use us_price:adj_close, adjusted for splits and dividends where available.
  • Excess returns use world_index:^GSPC as the S&P 500 benchmark proxy.
  • Quarterly fundamentals are aligned to SEC filing dates before daily valuation studies.
  • The promoted universe starts from active NYSE/NASDAQ common stocks, then applies price and dollar-volume gates.
  • Snapshot-only tables such as analyst consensus, DCF, us_ratios, and us_key_metrics are intentionally excluded from historical evidence.
  • Overlapping event windows are descriptive distributions, not independent samples.

This page is for historical data analysis and education only. It is not investment advice. Backtests and historical return distributions do not predict future performance; evaluate risk independently before trading.