# Retail Store Dashboard

Model a small-format retail chain from stores and customer traffic through basket growth, category margins, inventory working capital, EBITDA, unlevered cash flow, and enterprise value.

- Canonical: https://finamodel.com/excel-dashboard/retail-store
- Excel download: https://finamodel.com/templates/retail-store.xlsx

## About this dashboard

The Retail Store Dashboard brings store count, transactions, same-store-sales growth, revenue per store, margins, inventory turns and enterprise value into one view. A revenue-to-net-income waterfall connects the top line with the earnings result, giving operators and investors a starting point for reviewing a retail chain's performance.

The seven-year supporting model separates existing-store growth from openings and closures. Traffic and conversion drive transactions, while average basket and merchandise mix shape revenue. Category margins, shrinkage, labour and occupancy costs flow into four-wall store EBITDA. Corporate SG&A is shown separately before consolidated EBITDA, keeping location economics distinct from the costs of running the wider business.

Use the dashboard to review expansion plans, store productivity and profitability alongside cash requirements. Supporting schedules account for inventory, supplier terms, maintenance capex and new-store build-out costs. The valuation then connects those operating assumptions to enterprise value, equity value and value per share, allowing the forecast and investment case to be discussed together.

## What's included

- Store, traffic, basket, and rollout assumptions
- Three-category merchandise mix, margins, and shrinkage
- Operations and revenue build by store-year
- Four-wall and consolidated EBITDA P&L
- Inventory working-capital and unlevered FCF bridge
- DCF valuation with enterprise and per-share value

## Frequently asked questions

### How does the model separate comps from new stores?

Same-store-sales growth compounds the average basket through a separate index, while new-store growth changes the store count and average-store base. Traffic per store and conversion drive transactions, allowing rollout and comp assumptions to be flexed independently through revenue and profit.

### How is retail inventory reflected in cash flow?

Inventory equals COGS multiplied by days inventory outstanding divided by 365, and payables use COGS multiplied by days payable divided by 365. Net working capital is inventory less payables, with its change charged in the FCF bridge as COGS grows.

### What does the Dashboard show?

The Dashboard reports stores, transactions, same-store-sales growth, revenue per store, gross margin, EBITDA margin, inventory turns, and enterprise value. It also includes a revenue-to-net-income waterfall, giving operators and lenders a compact view of operating and valuation outputs.

### Why are store EBITDA and consolidated EBITDA separate?

Store EBITDA measures four-wall economics after gross profit, store labour, occupancy, other store opex, and marketing. Consolidated EBITDA then deducts corporate SG&A, so the model keeps site-level profitability distinct from head-office operating leverage.

### How is enterprise value calculated?

The Valuation sheet discounts explicit unlevered free cash flow and a Gordon-growth terminal value at the WACC to calculate enterprise value. Net debt bridges to equity value, shares outstanding produce value per share, and implied EV/EBITDA provides a valuation check.

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