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Children's Place (PLCE) Competitors

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$7.74 +0.63 (+8.86%)
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PLCE vs. TPR, SCVL, CAL, ZUMZ, GCO, CTRN, DBI, CATO, TLYS, and TJX

Should you be buying Children's Place stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Children's Place include Tapestry (TPR), Shoe Carnival (SCVL), Caleres (CAL), Zumiez (ZUMZ), Genesco (GCO), Citi Trends (CTRN), Designer Brands (DBI), Cato (CATO), Tilly's (TLYS), and TJX Companies (TJX).

Children's Place vs. Its Competitors

Tapestry (NYSE:TPR) and Children's Place (NASDAQ:PLCE) are both retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk and dividends.

Tapestry has a beta of 1.57, indicating that its stock price is 57% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Children's Place has a beta of 2.26, indicating that its stock price is 126% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Tapestry presently has a consensus target price of $108.42, suggesting a potential downside of 4.89%. Children's Place has a consensus target price of $7.00, suggesting a potential downside of 9.56%. Given Tapestry's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Tapestry is more favorable than Children's Place.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Tapestry
0 Sell rating(s)
5 Hold rating(s)
17 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.77
Children's Place
1 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
1.50

Tapestry has a net margin of 2.61% compared to Children's Place's net margin of -2.04%. Tapestry's return on equity of 68.02% beat Children's Place's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Tapestry2.61% 68.02% 13.01%
Children's Place -2.04%-10.32%-2.45%

Tapestry has higher revenue and earnings than Children's Place. Children's Place is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Tapestry, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Tapestry$7.01B3.37$183.20M$0.63180.94
Children's Place$1.39B0.12-$57.82M-$0.86-9.00

In the previous week, Tapestry had 21 more articles in the media than Children's Place. MarketBeat recorded 29 mentions for Tapestry and 8 mentions for Children's Place. Children's Place's average media sentiment score of 1.26 beat Tapestry's score of 1.15 indicating that Children's Place is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Tapestry
18 Very Positive mention(s)
3 Positive mention(s)
7 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Children's Place
3 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

90.8% of Tapestry shares are held by institutional investors. 1.3% of Tapestry shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Children's Place shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Tapestry beats Children's Place on 14 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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PLCE vs. The Competition

MetricChildren's PlaceRETAIL IndustryRetail SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$157.61M$8.19B$26.74B$10.30B
Dividend YieldN/A3.06%172.56%4.82%
P/E Ratio-9.0021.9919.2727.10
Price / Sales0.121.199.10133.24
Price / Cash2.0217.9916.8530.18
Price / Book-1.663.555.086.69
Net Income-$57.82M$368.88M$911.72M$276.55M
7 Day Performance3.06%-1.29%-1.30%-0.40%
1 Month Performance10.89%-4.72%-1.93%6.53%
1 Year Performance-44.95%-4.46%12.76%41.04%

Children's Place Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
PLCE
Children's Place
0.4959 of 5 stars
$7.74
+8.9%
$7.00
-9.6%
-43.6%$157.61M$1.39B-9.007,900Positive News
TPR
Tapestry
3.8333 of 5 stars
$115.56
+0.6%
$108.42
-6.2%
+151.8%$23.79B$7.01B183.4319,000Positive News
Gap Up
SCVL
Shoe Carnival
3.9725 of 5 stars
$21.41
-3.7%
N/A-50.0%$608.50M$1.15B9.435,500
CAL
Caleres
3.6751 of 5 stars
$13.94
-2.5%
$14.00
+0.4%
-61.3%$483.95M$2.72B7.979,400
ZUMZ
Zumiez
1.2871 of 5 stars
$20.63
+3.0%
$18.00
-12.7%
-7.9%$343.41M$889.20M-2,060.948,700Analyst Upgrade
Gap Up
GCO
Genesco
4.3263 of 5 stars
$29.20
-3.3%
$30.00
+2.7%
+0.3%$326.02M$2.33B-11.9718,000Analyst Upgrade
Gap Up
CTRN
Citi Trends
0.7498 of 5 stars
$31.68
-2.6%
$39.50
+24.7%
+85.7%$270.02M$753.08M-15.844,600Gap Up
DBI
Designer Brands
4.1115 of 5 stars
$3.50
-2.8%
$4.00
+14.3%
-44.4%$178.36M$3.01B-5.0014,000Gap Up
CATO
Cato
0.6678 of 5 stars
$4.33
-5.4%
N/A-24.7%$90.35M$649.81M-4.297,000
TLYS
Tilly's
3.5474 of 5 stars
$1.96
-1.7%
$2.25
+15.0%
-64.1%$60.64M$569.45M-1.295,619Positive News
TJX
TJX Companies
4.4588 of 5 stars
$143.32
+1.4%
$147.63
+3.0%
+24.3%$157.29B$56.36B32.65364,000Positive News

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This page (NASDAQ:PLCE) was last updated on 10/14/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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