In the last trading session, 6.46 million Childrens Place Inc (NASDAQ:PLCE) shares changed hands as the company’s beta touched 1.88. With the company’s per share price at $6.94 changed hands at $1.72 or 32.95% during last session, the market valuation stood at $153.85M. PLCE’s last price was a discount, traded about -184.44% off its 52-week high of $19.74. The share price had its 52-week low at $3.66, which suggests the last value was 47.26% up since then. When we look at Childrens Place Inc’s average trading volume, we note the 10-day average is 0.99 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 728.87K.
Analysts gave the Childrens Place Inc (PLCE) stock a consensus recommendation rating of Hold, calculated at a mean rating of 3.00. If we narrow down to specifics, the data shows that 1 out of 2 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, with a further 0 assigning it an Overweight rating. Of the remaining, 1 recommended PLCE as a Hold, 0 felt it is a Buy and 0 rated the stock as Underweight.
Childrens Place Inc (NASDAQ:PLCE) trade information
Instantly PLCE was in green as seen at the end of in last trading. With action 37.70%, the performance over the past five days has been green. The company’s shares are showing year-to-date downside of -9.40%, with the 5-day performance at 37.70% in the green. However, in the 30-day time frame, Childrens Place Inc (NASDAQ:PLCE) is 78.41% up. Looking at the short shares, we see there were 3.63 million shares sold at short interest cover period of 2.92 days.
The consensus price target for the stock as assigned by Wall Street analysts is 10, meaning bulls need an upside of 30.6% from its current market value. According to analyst projections, PLCE’s forecast low is 7 with 48 as the target high. To hit the forecast high, the stock’s price needs a -591.64% plunge from its current level, while the stock would need to soar -0.86% for it to hit the projected low.
The 2025 estimates are for Childrens Place Inc earnings to decrease by -59.76%, but the outlook for the next 5-year period is at 34.50% per year.
PLCE Dividends
Childrens Place Inc is expected to release its next quarterly earnings report on 2025-Jun-06. During the past 5 years, the average dividend yield was 2.11 per year.
Childrens Place Inc (NASDAQ:PLCE)’s Major holders
If we look at who the major shareholders are, we find that insiders hold 4.51% of Childrens Place Inc shares while 81.52% of the shares are in the hands of institutional holders. The share float percentage for the stock currently stands at 85.37%. There are 81.52% institutions holding the Childrens Place Inc stock share, with MITHAQ CAPITAL SPC the top institutional holder. As of 2024-06-30, the company held 54.8214% of the shares, roughly 7.0 million PLCE shares worth $55.71 million.
VANGUARD GROUP INC holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares, with 2.9202% or 0.37 million shares worth $3.04 million as of 2024-06-30.
Among Mutual Funds, the top two as of Mar 31, 2025 were VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Extended Market Index Fund and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund . With 191.07 shares estimated at $1.33 million under it, the former controlled 0.86% of total outstanding shares. On the other hand, VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund held about 0.70% of the shares, roughly 154.48 shares worth around $1.07 million.
