Apparel Brands

What sits inside the portfolios

Toggle the house. Coach dwarfs Kate Spade. Old Navy dwarfs Athleta. Anthropologie is still larger than Nuuly. HEYDUDE is the small, shrinking brand inside Crocs.
Tapestry FY2026PVH FY2025Gap FY2025Urban Outfitters FY2026Capri FY2026 continuing opsCrocs CY2025
CoachKate SpadeStuart Weitzman residual

Reported gross margin

Tapestry 77.8% and Ralph Lauren 69.9% are luxury economics. Gap 40.8% and Urban Outfitters ~36% are specialty retail. Crocs 58.3% already shows a tariff bridge.

Gross margin versus operating margin

Tapestry GAAP GM 77.8% and operating margin 23.9%. Gap GM 40.8% and operating margin 7.3%. Abercrombie 61.5% is merchandise GM (occupancy in selling). Capri operating margin is omitted: 0.7% is after-tax continuing ops.
Gross marginGAAP operating / IBIT

Operating margin

Tapestry 23.9%, Ralph Lauren 14.5%, Abercrombie 13.3%. PVH 2.6% is IBIT after $480M of impairments. Crocs 3.7% is after $738M of HEYDUDE impairments. Capri is omitted.

SG&A as a share of sales

Tapestry, Ralph Lauren, PVH, and Capri run 50 to 57% SG&A against high gross margin. American Eagle 26.8% and Urban Outfitters 26.1% keep occupancy in cost of sales. Gap and Abercrombie are omitted from this comparison.

Year-end inventory days

Computed as year-end inventory divided by the year's COGS, times 365. Not average inventory. Tapestry 170 days, Ralph Lauren 151, Gap 89, Urban Outfitters 65. Birkenstock manufactures and sits at 300 days.
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