NASDAQ:PLCEChildrens Place Stock Price, Forecast & News

Childrens Place's stock was trading at $37.41 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, PLCE stock has increased by 11.0% and is now trading at $41.54. View which stocks have been most impacted by Coronavirus.

11 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Childrens Place in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 5 hold ratings and 5 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View analyst ratings for Childrens Place.

Childrens Place is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, June 11th 2020. View our earnings forecast for Childrens Place.

Childrens Place will be holding an earnings conference call on Thursday, June 11th at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

Childrens Place Inc (NASDAQ:PLCE) posted its earnings results on Tuesday, March, 17th. The company reported $1.85 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the Zacks' consensus estimate of $1.57 by $0.28. The company had revenue of $513 million for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $510.69 million. Childrens Place had a return on equity of 32.90% and a net margin of 3.92%. Childrens Place's revenue was down 3.3% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the firm earned $1.10 EPS. View Childrens Place's earnings history.

Childrens Place declared a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, December 11th. Investors 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 yield of 5.39%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, December 13th. View Childrens Place's dividend history.

Childrens Place issued an update on its first quarter 2020 Pre-Market earnings guidance on Monday, May, 18th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of for the period. The company issued revenue guidance of $254-254 million, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $328.13 million.

11 Wall Street analysts have issued 12 month price objectives for Childrens Place's shares. Their forecasts range from $30.00 to $102.00. On average, they expect Childrens Place's stock price to reach $48.73 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 17.3% from the stock's current price. View analysts' price targets for Childrens Place.

Press coverage about PLCE stock has trended negative this week, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. The research firm rates the sentiment of press coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Childrens Place earned a media sentiment score of -2.6 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news coverage about the company a news buzz of 9.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is extremely likely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the near term. View the latest news aboutChildrens Place.

Childrens Place saw a drop in short interest during the month of April. As of April 30th, there was short interest totaling 5,970,000 shares, a drop of 14.1% from the April 15th total of 6,950,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 1,078,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 5.5 days. Currently, 43.0% of the shares of the company are short sold. View Childrens Place's Current Options Chain.

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

Childrens Place's stock is owned by many different retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include BlackRock Inc. (15.02%), Morgan Stanley (6.28%), Morgan Stanley (6.28%), State Street Corp (4.04%), Prentice Capital Management LP (3.01%) and Invesco Ltd. (2.63%). 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 Wellington Management Group LLP, Bank of New York Mellon Corp, BlackRock Inc., Balyasny Asset Management LLC, Squarepoint Ops LLC, Emerald Mutual Fund Advisers Trust, Emerald Advisers LLC, and Public Sector Pension Investment Board. View insider buying and selling activity for Childrens Place.

PLCE stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Morgan Stanley, Morgan Stanley, Maverick Capital Ltd., Maverick Capital Ltd., Prentice Capital Management LP, Engine Capital Management LP, Deutsche Bank AG, and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. 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 activity 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 $41.54.

Childrens Place has a market capitalization of $602.70 million and generates $1.87 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $73.30 million in net income (profit) each year or $5.36 on an earnings per share basis. Childrens Place employs 17,300 workers across the globe.

The official website for Childrens Place is 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]