Children's Place Inc. (PLCE): Price and Financial Metrics

PLCE POWR Grades

• PLCE scores best on the Value dimension, with a Value rank ahead of 96.24% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for PLCE is in Value, which has been heading up over the past 179 days.
• PLCE's current lowest rank is in the Sentiment metric (where it is better than 5.38% of US stocks).

PLCE Stock Summary

• The capital turnover (annual revenue relative to shareholder's equity) for PLCE is 8.49 -- better than 96.27% of US stocks.
• PLCE's current price/earnings ratio is 3.92, which is higher than only 3.63% of US stocks with positive earnings.
• With a price/sales ratio of 0.38, Childrens Place Inc has a higher such ratio than merely 7.86% of stocks in our set.
• Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to Childrens Place Inc are MCFT, IMXI, HUBG, EPAC, and ASPU.
• Visit PLCE's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to www.childrensplace.com.

PLCE Valuation Summary

• PLCE's EV/EBIT ratio is 47.5; this is 184.43% higher than that of the median Consumer Cyclical stock.
• PLCE's price/sales ratio has moved down 0.3 over the prior 243 months.
• Over the past 243 months, PLCE's price/sales ratio has gone down 0.3.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for PLCE.

PLCE Growth Metrics

The 3 year cash and equivalents growth rate now stands at -62.18%.
• The 2 year cash and equivalents growth rate now stands at -20.38%.
• Its 5 year net income to common stockholders growth rate is now at -167.39%.

Over the past 70 months, PLCE's revenue has gone up $175,101,000.

The table below shows PLCE's growth in key financial areas (numbers in millions of US dollars).

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2021-12-31	1,915.364	133.276	187.171
2021-09-30	1,880.458	82.462	155.932
2021-06-30	1,747.804	44.19	90.384
2021-03-31	1,702.872	-11.828	19.65
2020-12-31	1,522.598	-35.717	-140.365
2020-09-30	1,562.721	26.605	-123.889

PLCE's Quality Factors

The “Quality” component of the POWR Ratings focuses on 31 different factors of a companies fundamentals and operational strength. Here are some key insights as we drill into the specifics of these quality attributes.

• PLCE has a Quality Grade of B, ranking ahead of 93.19% of graded US stocks.
• PLCE's asset turnover comes in at 1.519 -- ranking 76th of 165 Retail stocks.
• DBI, BBWI, and BBY are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with PLCE.

The table below shows PLCE's key quality metrics over time.