Card Factory (CARD) Share Price, News & Analysis

Company Overview

Card Factory plc operates as a specialist retailer of cards, gifts, and celebration essentials in the United Kingdom and internationally. It operates through five segments: Cardfactory Stores, Cardfactory Online, Getting Personal, Partnerships, and Printcraft. The company provides greeting cards, celebration accessories, and gifts through cardfactory stores, cardfactory online retails, and network of third-party retail partners; and personalised cards and gifts through online retailer, as well as manufactures and sells greeting cards and personalised gifts through its stores and online businesses. It also offers printers; and operates as a property company. The company offers its products through various retail locations, as well as through its websites, such as cardfactory.co.uk and gettingpersonal.co.uk. Card Factory plc was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Wakefield, the United Kingdom.

Key Stats

• Today's Range: 63 to 64.50
• 50-Day Range: 63.60 to 73.54
• 52-Week Range: 58.30 to 115.70
• Volume: 422,106 shs
• Average Volume: 2.11 million shs
• Market Capitalization: £219.20 million
• P/E Ratio: 7.15
• Dividend Yield: 7.78%
• Price Target: GBX 113.33
• Consensus Rating: Hold

Card Factory Stock Analysis - MarketRank™

Card Factory scored higher than 92% of companies evaluated by MarketBeat. Scores are calculated by averaging available category scores, with extra weight given to analysis and valuation.

Analyst's Opinion

• Score: 3.6 / 5
• Analyst Rating: Hold

Consensus Rating

Card Factory has received a consensus rating of Hold. The company's average rating score is 2.33, and is based on no strong buy ratings, 1 buy rating, 2 hold ratings, and no sell ratings.

Upside Potential

Card Factory has a consensus price target of GBX 113.33, representing about 78.2% upside from its current price of GBX 63.60.

Amount of Analyst Coverage

Card Factory has only been the subject of 2 research reports in the past 90 days.

Earnings and Valuation

• Score: 3.1 / 5
• Proj. Earnings Growth: N/A

Price to Earnings Ratio vs. the Market

The P/E ratio of Card Factory is 7.15, which means that it is trading at a less expensive P/E ratio than the market average P/E ratio of about 43.13.

Price to Earnings Ratio vs. Sector

The P/E ratio of Card Factory is 7.15, which means that it is trading at a less expensive P/E ratio than the Consumer Cyclical sector average P/E ratio of about 72.44.

Price to Earnings Growth Ratio

Card Factory has a PEG Ratio of 0.84. PEG Ratios below 1 indicate that a company could be undervalued.

Price to Book Value per Share Ratio

Card Factory has a P/B Ratio of 0.71. P/B Ratios below 1 indicate that a company could be undervalued with respect to its assets and liabilities.

Short Interest

• Score: N/A
• Short Interest Level: N/A

Short Interest

There is no current short interest data available for CARD.

Dividend

• Score: 2.5 / 5
• Dividend Strength: Moderate

Dividend Leadership

Card Factory is a leading dividend payer. It pays a dividend yield of 7.78%, putting its dividend yield in the top 25% of dividend-paying stocks.

Dividend Growth

Card Factory does not have a long track record of dividend growth.

Dividend Coverage

The dividend payout ratio of Card Factory is 55.06%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%.

News and Social Media

• Score: 1.8 / 5
• News Sentiment: -0.16

News Sentiment

Card Factory has a news sentiment score of -0.16. This score is calculated as an average of sentiment of articles about the company over the last seven days and ranges from 2 (good news) to -2 (bad news). This is a lower news sentiment than the 0.60 average news sentiment score of Consumer Cyclical companies.

News Coverage This Week

MarketBeat has tracked 2 news articles for Card Factory this week, compared to 1 article on an average week.

Search Interest

2 people have searched for CARD on MarketBeat in the last 30 days.

Company Ownership

• Score: 2.1 / 5
• Insider Trading: Selling Shares

Insider Buying vs. Insider Selling

In the past three months, Card Factory insiders have sold 2,665.70% more of their company's stock than they have bought. Specifically, they have bought £7,941.51 in company stock and sold £219,638.11 in company stock.

Percentage Held by Insiders

4.61% of the stock of Card Factory is held by insiders.

Percentage Held by Institutions

44.85% of the stock of Card Factory is held by institutions. High institutional ownership can be a signal of strong market trust in this company.

Company Calendar

• Last Earnings: 4/28/2026
• Today: 6/19/2026

Industry, Sector and Symbol

• Stock Exchange: LON
• Sector: Consumer Cyclical
• Industry: Specialty Retail
• Sub-Industry: N/A
• Current Symbol: LON:CARD
• CIK: N/A
• Web: www.cardfactoryinvestors.com
• Phone: 44 1924 839 150
• Fax: N/A
• Employees: 9,075
• Year Founded: N/A

Price Target and Rating

• Average Price Target for Card Factory: GBX 113.33
• High Price Target: GBX 150
• Low Price Target: GBX 80
• Potential Upside/Downside: +78.2%
• Consensus Rating: Hold
• Rating Score (0-4): 2.33
• Research Coverage: 3 Analysts

Profitability

• EPS (Trailing Twelve Months): GBX 8.90
• Trailing P/E Ratio: 7.15
• Forward P/E Ratio: 4.02
• P/E Growth: 0.84
• Net Income: £41.04 million
• Net Margins: 5.35%
• Pretax Margin: N/A
• Return on Equity: 9.00%
• Return on Assets: 7.54%

Debt

• Debt-to-Equity Ratio: 58.82
• Current Ratio: 0.89
• Quick Ratio: 0.20

Sales & Book Value

• Annual Sales: £582.70 million
• Price / Sales: 0.38
• Cash Flow: GBX 2.24 per share
• Price / Cash Flow: 28.44
• Book Value: GBX 90.12 per share
• Price / Book: 0.71

Miscellaneous

• Outstanding Shares: 344,659,000
• Free Float: N/A
• Market Cap: £219.20 million
• Optionable: Not Optionable
• Beta: 1.29