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

PLCE POWR Grades

• PLCE scores best on the Quality dimension, with a Quality rank ahead of 97.43% of US stocks.
• PLCE's strongest trending metric is Growth; it's been moving up over the last 163 days.
• PLCE ranks lowest in Stability; there it ranks in the 9th percentile.

PLCE Stock Summary

• The capital turnover (annual revenue relative to shareholder's equity) for PLCE is 8.46 -- better than 96.48% of US stocks.
• PLCE's current price/earnings ratio is 5.91, which is higher than just 9.33% of US stocks with positive earnings.
• Over the past twelve months, PLCE has reported earnings growth of -225.62%, putting it ahead of just 8.68% of US stocks in our set.
• If you're looking for stocks that are quantitatively similar to Childrens Place Inc, a group of peers worth examining would be DUOT, MCFT, RCII, CVGW, and WNC.
• PLCE's SEC filings can be seen here. And to visit Childrens Place Inc's official 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

Its 5 year revenue growth rate is now at -1.54%.
• Its 2 year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at -20.38%.
• The 3 year revenue growth rate now stands at 9.99%.

Over the past 67 months, PLCE's revenue has gone up $140,195,000.

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
2021-09-30	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
2020-06-30	1,661.946	71.403	-94.161

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.