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