Forensic Analysis · Retail / Consumer Discretionary · as of Aug 11, 2026

Shoe Station Group Inc (SHOE)

A forensic read on Shoe Station Group Inc built from its complete SEC filings — financial-health screens, earnings quality, red flags and a price-aware rating. Reproducible math, not opinion.

D · Weak — demands caution

Forensic grade

Safe

Financial health

5.9

Distress distance

Clean

Earnings quality

Forensic signals

11.4

P / E (ttm)

7.6%

ROE

$439M

Market cap

4.35%

Dividend yield

-5.6%

Revenue growth

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Shoe Station Group Inc earns a D (Weak — demands caution) forensic quality grade, and its balance-sheet distress test reads 5.9, placing it in the Safe zone. 4 forensic signals were flagged in its latest SEC filings, led by inventory days.

What the filings flag

209d

FY2025→FY2026

Inventory days. Days inventory outstanding moved from 173 to 209 FY2025→FY2026 (against cost of goods sold; inventory +14% vs -7% in cost of sales). Inventory is outrunning what's being sold — a flag for softening demand or obsolescence risk ahead.

5.4%

FY2026

Return on invested capital. Return on invested capital is 5.4% in the latest fiscal year and slipping from 14% — well below its ~9% cost of capital, so reinvested dollars may be destroying value, not building it.

-0.3%/yr

FY2023–FY2026

Share count. Diluted share count changed -1% over the last 3 years to FY2026 (-0.3%/yr). Roughly flat — the count is neither shrinking nor growing meaningfully. Per-share value isn't being meaningfully helped or hurt by the count.

-79%

FY2012→FY2013

Dividend — cut. The payout was CUT ~79% in FY2013 (from FY2012) and hasn't been restored since. It still returns some cash, but it is NOT the dependable, rising dividend an unbroken streak implies. Measured on total dividend dollars rather than per share: the reported share count steps sharply around FY2019, a stock-split seam between filing vintages rather than a change in the payout, and a split leaves the dollars paid untouched.

Key fundamentals

Latest Revenue$1.14B

Revenue Growth YoY-5.6%

Revenue CAGR (3yr)-3.5%

Net Margin4.6%

Free Cash Flow$26.6M

Return on Equity7.6%

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Data from SEC EDGAR public filings · metrics as of Aug 11, 2026. Forensic signals flag probability, not certainty.