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

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

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 annualized dividend and a yield of 3.52%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, December 13th. View Childrens Place's Dividend History.

Childrens Place declared that its board has initiated a stock buyback plan on Tuesday, March 20th 2018, which permits the company to repurchase $250,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization permits the company to buy shares of its stock through open market purchases. Shares repurchase plans are generally a sign that the company's management believes its shares are undervalued.

Childrens Place Inc (NASDAQ:PLCE) posted its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, December, 11th. The company reported $3.03 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $3.02 by $0.01. The firm earned $524.80 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $534.09 million. Childrens Place had a net margin of 3.23% and a return on equity of 26.84%. The company's revenue for the quarter was up .4% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the company posted $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 earnings per share 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.

10 Wall Street analysts have issued 1 year target prices for Childrens Place's shares. Their forecasts range from $45.00 to $106.00. On average, they anticipate Childrens Place's stock price to reach $75.70 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 18.9% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Childrens Place.

10 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 6 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Childrens Place.

Headlines about PLCE stock have been trending somewhat positive on Friday, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. InfoTrie rates the sentiment of news coverage by analyzing more than six thousand blog and news 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 news impact score of 1.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news stories about the company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the immediate future. View News Stories for Childrens Place.

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Childrens Place's stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Peregrine Capital Management LLC (1.57%), Smith Graham & Co. Investment Advisors LP (1.17%), Skyline Asset Management LP (0.99%), State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.08%), Sciencast Management LP (0.05%) and Cerebellum GP LLC (0.04%). 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 Peregrine Capital Management LLC, Louisiana State Employees Retirement System, Sciencast Management LP, State of Alaska Department of Revenue and OLD National Bancorp IN. 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 Smith Graham & Co. Investment Advisors LP, Skyline Asset Management LP and Cerebellum GP LLC. 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 $63.66.

Childrens Place has a market capitalization of $959.04 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]