NASDAQ:PLCE - Childrens Place Stock Price, Forecast & News

Childrens Place trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "PLCE."

Childrens Place announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, December 11th. Stockholders of record on Monday, December 16th will be given a dividend of $0.56 per share on Friday, December 27th. This represents a $2.24 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 3.63%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, December 13th. View Childrens Place's Dividend History.

Childrens Place declared that its Board of Directors has approved a share repurchase plan on Tuesday, March 20th 2018, which allows the company to buyback $250,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization allows the company to reacquire shares of its stock through open market purchases. Shares buyback plans are typically an indication that the company's board of directors believes its shares are undervalued.

Childrens Place Inc (NASDAQ:PLCE) announced its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, December, 11th. The company reported $3.03 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $3.02 by $0.01. The business earned $524.80 million during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $534.09 million. Childrens Place had a return on equity of 26.84% and a net margin of 3.23%. The company's quarterly revenue was up .4% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the firm earned $3.07 earnings per share. View Childrens Place's Earnings History.

Childrens Place is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Monday, March 2nd 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Childrens Place.

Childrens Place updated its FY 2019 Pre-Market earnings guidance on Wednesday, December, 11th. The company provided EPS guidance of $5.00-5.20 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus EPS estimate of $5.62. The company issued revenue guidance of $$1.862-1.867 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $$1.92 billion.

11 brokers have issued 12-month price targets for Childrens Place's shares. Their forecasts range from $45.00 to $106.00. On average, they anticipate Childrens Place's share price to reach $76.73 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 24.3% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Childrens Place.

11 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Childrens Place in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 3 hold ratings and 7 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Childrens Place.

Media coverage about PLCE stock has been trending very negative this week, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. InfoTrie identifies negative and positive media coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Childrens Place earned a media sentiment score of -3.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media stories about the company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent media coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the immediate future. View News Stories for Childrens Place.

Childrens Place saw a decline in short interest in the month of January. As of January 31st, there was short interest totalling 6,990,000 shares, a decline of 7.7% from the January 15th total of 7,570,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 924,500 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 7.6 days. Currently, 48.4% of the company's shares are short sold. View Childrens Place's Current Options Chain.

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Childrens Place's stock is owned by a number of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include FMR LLC (14.13%), Royce & Associates LP (4.95%), Ceredex Value Advisors LLC (4.39%), Westwood Holdings Group Inc. (4.09%), State Street Corp (3.56%) and Bank of New York Mellon Corp (3.27%). Company insiders that own Childrens Place stock include Anurup Pruthi, Claudia Lima-Guinehut, Jane T Elfers, John E Bachman, Michael Scarpa, Norman S Matthews and Robert F Helm. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Childrens Place.

PLCE stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, FMR LLC, Stifel Financial Corp, Maverick Capital Ltd., Ceredex Value Advisors LLC, Bank of New York Mellon Corp, Man Group plc and Emerald Mutual Fund Advisers Trust. Company insiders that have sold Childrens Place company stock in the last year include Claudia Lima-Guinehut and Robert F Helm. View Insider Buying and Selling for Childrens Place.

PLCE stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Prentice Capital Management LP, Russell Investments Group Ltd., Royce & Associates LP, Point72 Asset Management L.P., Hotchkis & Wiley Capital Management LLC, Smith Graham & Co. Investment Advisors LP, Cooper Creek Partners Management LLC and Westwood Holdings Group Inc.. Company insiders that have bought Childrens Place stock in the last two years include Jane T Elfers, John E Bachman, Michael Scarpa and Norman S Matthews. View Insider Buying and Selling for Childrens Place.

Shares of PLCE can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of PLCE stock can currently be purchased for approximately $61.74.

Childrens Place has a market capitalization of $930.11 million and generates $1.94 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $100.96 million in net income (profit) each year or $6.75 on an earnings per share basis. Childrens Place employs 18,700 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Childrens Place.

The official website for Childrens Place is http://www.childrensplace.com/.

Childrens Place's mailing address is 500 Plaza Drive, Secaucus NJ, 07094. The company can be reached via phone at 201-558-2400 or via email at [email protected]