During the last session, The Children’s Place Inc. (NASDAQ:PLCE)’s traded shares were 1.69 million, with the beta value of the company hitting 1.99. At the end of the trading day, the stock’s price was $17.34, reflecting an intraday loss of -7.17% or -$1.34. The 52-week high for the PLCE share is $57.00, that puts it down -228.72 from that peak though still a striking -1.61% loss since the share price plummeted to a 52-week low of $17.62. The company’s market capitalization is $229.41M, and the average intraday trading volume over the past 10 days was 1.1 million shares, and the average trade volume was 638.70K shares over the past three months.

The Children’s Place Inc. (PLCE) received a consensus recommendation of an Overweight from analysts. That translates to a mean rating of 2.20. PLCE has a Sell rating from 0 analyst(s) out of 4 analysts who have looked at this stock. 2 analyst(s) recommend to Hold the stock while 0 suggest Overweight, and 2 recommend a Buy rating for it. 0 analyst(s) has rated the stock Underweight. Company’s earnings per share (EPS) for the current quarter are expected to be -$1.83.

The Children’s Place Inc. (NASDAQ:PLCE) trade information

The Children’s Place Inc. (PLCE) registered a -7.17% downside in the last session and has traded in the red over the past 5 sessions. The stock plummet -7.17% in intraday trading to $17.34 this Thursday, 05/25/23, hitting a weekly high. The stock’s 5-day price performance is -29.60%, and it has moved by -41.87% in 30 days. Based on these gigs, the overall price performance for the year is -57.15%. The short interest in The Children’s Place Inc. (NASDAQ:PLCE) is 2.95 million shares and it means that shorts have 5.22 day(s) to cover.

The consensus price target of analysts on Wall Street is $31.25, which implies an increase of 44.51% to the stock’s current value. The extremes of the forecast give a target low and a target high price of $20.00 and $43.00 respectively. As a result, PLCE is trading at a discount of -147.98% off the target high and -15.34% off the low.

The Children’s Place Inc. (PLCE) estimates and forecasts

Statistics show that The Children’s Place Inc. has outperformed its competitors in share price, compared to the industry in which it operates. The Children’s Place Inc. (PLCE) shares have gone down -58.22% during the last six months, with a year-to-date growth rate more than the industry average at 3,150.00% against 0.50. Yet analysts are ramping up their growth forecast for the fiscal year 2023. Revenue is predicted to shrink -274.30% this quarter and then drop -75.30% in the quarter after that. In the rating firms’ projections, revenue will decrease -2.50% compared to the previous financial year.

Revenue for the current quarter is expected to be $321.64 million as predicted by 3 analyst(s). Meanwhile, a consensus of 3 analyst(s) estimates revenue growth to $367.95 million by the end of Jul 2023. As per earnings report from last fiscal year’s results, sales for the corresponding quarters totaled $362.35 million and $380.88 million respectively. In this case, analysts expect current quarter sales to shrink by -11.20% and then drop by -3.40% in the coming quarter.

An analysis of the company’s performance over the past 5 years shows that the company’s earnings shrunk an estimated -15.00%. While earnings are projected to return -100.70% in 2023, the next five years will return -7.10% per annum.

PLCE Dividends

The Children’s Place Inc. is due to release its next quarterly earnings in June. However, it is important to remember that the dividend yield ratio is merely an indicator meant to only serve as guidance.

The Children’s Place Inc. (NASDAQ:PLCE)’s Major holders

The Children’s Place Inc. insiders own 6.34% of total outstanding shares while institutional holders control 106.44%, with the float percentage being 113.65%. Blackrock Inc. is the largest shareholder of the company, while 238 institutions own stock in it. As of Mar 30, 2023, the company held over 2.0 million shares (or 16.12% of all shares), a total value of $80.41 million in shares.

The next largest institutional holding, with 1.3 million shares, is of Franklin Resources, Inc.’s that is approximately 10.51% of outstanding shares. At the market price on Mar 30, 2023, these shares were valued at $52.44 million.

Also, the Mutual Funds coming in first place with the largest holdings of The Children’s Place Inc. (PLCE) shares are iShares Core S&P Smallcap ETF and Franklin Value Investors Trust-Franklin Small Cap Value. Data provided on Feb 27, 2023 indicates that iShares Core S&P Smallcap ETF owns about 0.99 million shares. This amounts to just over 8.01 percent of the company’s overall shares, with a $41.58 million market value. The same data shows that the other fund manager holds slightly less at 0.89 million, or about 7.14% of the stock, which is worth about $40.16 million.