Casey’s told the SEC it ran 2,959 stores as of July 31

NEW YORK — Sept. 8, 2026 — Casey’s General Stores operated 2,959 convenience stores in 19 states as of July 31, 2026, the company said in its Form 10-Q for the first quarter of fiscal 2027. That is 15 more doors than the 2,944 the fiscal 2026 Form 10-K counted as of April 30. The quarter’s roll-forward was nine new-store constructions, 12 acquisitions, and six closures or divestitures.

Those numbers are the company’s own words, signed and filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. They are not a gated ranking. They are not a broker’s marketed book. When a public c-store chain writes a store count into a 10-K or 10-Q, that sentence is the industry scoreboard.

What the year-end 10-K already disclosed

The fiscal 2026 annual report, for the year ended April 30, said Casey’s and its subsidiaries operated 2,944 stores, up from 2,904 a year earlier. The company added 40 new-store constructions, 40 acquisitions, and one prior acquisition opened, and closed 41. Approximately 71 percent of stores were in communities with fewer than 20,000 people. The 10-K said all but six locations sold fuel. About half the chain sat in Iowa, Missouri, and Illinois.

On June 9, President and CEO Darren Rebelez said fiscal 2026 inside same-store sales rose 4.2 percent, “led by strong performance in prepared foods and non-alcoholic beverages,” and that fuel gross profit increased 21 percent from the prior year. The same release said the company generated $15.2 million in renewable fuel credits in the fourth quarter, up $10.8 million from a year earlier. That is on-the-record commentary attached to a filed year.

Why the count belongs on a fuel desk

Store count without fuel mix is a vanity metric. Casey’s own 10-K already answered the mix question: all but six doors sell gallons. A net add of 15 stores in a quarter is a different machine than a net add of inside-only kiosks. The July 31 count is the baseline until the next 10-Q restates it. EIA’s weekly U.S. regular average for the week ended Aug. 31 was $4.071. Those 2,959 doors price against that print, not against a ranking PDF.

Same-store language in the June 9 release split the machines the way this desk reads them. Inside sales and fuel gallons are not one line. Inside same-store sales for the fourth quarter were up 5.5 percent, the company said, driven in prepared food by whole pizzas and appetizers and sides. Total fuel gallons sold in the quarter rose 3.6 percent. A chain that added doors and still grew same-store inside sales is a curb story. A chain that only added doors is a map story. Casey’s filed both.

What we attach

The 10-K store count, the 10-Q roll-forward, and the named executive’s sentence about fuel gross profit and inside same-store sales. We do not invent a door count a private banner has not disclosed. We do not treat a press-kit superlative as more authoritative than the sentence the company filed. Murphy USA and Alimentation Couche-Tard file the same forms. When those 10-Qs post a restated count, they go on the same board.

Source: Casey’s General Stores Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended April 30, 2026; Form 10-Q for the quarter ended July 31, 2026; and the June 9, 2026, earnings release on investor.caseys.com. EIA weekly retail averages, week ended Aug. 31, 2026.