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NASDAQ · RETAIL-FAMILY CLOTHING STORES · SMALL CAP

Childrens Place, Inc. PLCE

18 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only
$1.2B
▼ 12.8% YoY
$-88.3M
$-9.3M

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In brief

What this company does

The Children's Place, Inc. designs, contracts to manufacture, and sells apparel, accessories and footwear predominantly at value prices, primarily under its proprietary brands "The Children's Place" and "Gymboree". As of January 31, 2026, it had a total of 498 stores in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. In the United States, it owns and operates a 700,000 square foot distribution center in Alabama, which supports its retail store operations, e-commerce, and wholesale operations both in the United States and in Canada. As of January 31, 2026, it had approximately 7,800 employees, approximately 1,430 of whom were based at its corporate offices and distribution centers. It has one U.S. wholesale customer that individually accounted for more than 10% of its net sales. It reports segment data based on geography: The Children's Place U.S. and The Children's Place International. The Children's Place was founded in 1969 and became publicly traded on the Nasdaq Global Select Market in 1997.

Written from the business description in THE CHILDREN'S PLACE, INC.'s annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 10 April 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth

USD 1.2B
Revenue, FY2025 · full 18-year series below
Revenue $B Net income $B
FY2025 · Revenue 1.2 · Net income -0.1
1B2B
2008201120142017202020232025
Compound annual growth
−10.9%
−4.5%
−3.5%
−2.1%
−83.5%
−51.4%
−43.7%
−29.4%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs

Revenue compounded at −4.5% a year over the five years to FY2025.

Compound annual rates per period — left blank where that exact year isn't on file, the series crosses a loss, or (per-share rows) a split falls inside the window.

Profitability

−7 cents
lost on every revenue dollar
Operating margin Net margin
FY2025 · Operating -4.7% · Net -7.3%
5%10%-5%-10%
200820162025
ROE
FY2022 · ROE -0.6%
50%100%-50%
200820162025
Three returns, three denominators.
Return on equityNot applicable: equity was zero or negative in this period, so return on equity has no meaning.
Gross margin29.9%
Operating margin-4.7%
Net margin-7.3%
EBITDA·

Return on equity has no reading this year — return on capital employed, just below, still does: -22%.

Cash & shareholders

USD 422,000.00
returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks
Free cash flow $M
FY2025 · FCF -9.3
100M200M-50M-100M
200820162025
Net buybacks $M Dividends $M
FY2025 · Dividends · · Net buybacks 0.4
150M300MDividendsNet buybacks
2008201120142017202020232025
Dividends paid·
Net buybacksUSD 422,000.00
Share of profit-0.5%
Consecutive raises·

USD 422,000.00 in buybacks went back to shareholders in a year without profit.

Total assetsUSD 670.3M
EquityUSD -54.2M
CashUSD 5.5M
Gross debtUSD 131.1M
Net debtUSD 125.6M
Current ratio1.03×

Equity was zero or negative — liabilities equaled or exceeded assets. No ratio is shown.

The 18-year record

18 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD

EPS, diluted, dividend per share and shares outstanding are shown without shading, and a vertical line marks the year the share count changed — the series crosses a large, unexplained change in share count, so the years on either side are not on a comparable scale.

row low → row highnegative—not applicable◌not available in our data
PLCE, 18-year financial record
Metric 202520242023202220212020201920182017201620152014201320122011201020092008
Revenue $B1.21.41.61.71.91.51.91.91.91.81.71.81.81.81.71.71.61.6
Operating income $B−0.1−0.0−0.1−0.00.3−0.20.10.10.20.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.1
EBITDA $B◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌
Income tax $B−0.00.00.0−0.00.1−0.10.00.00.10.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.0
Net income $B−0.1−0.1−0.2−0.00.2−0.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.1
Free cash flow $B−0.0−0.10.1−0.10.1−0.10.10.10.20.20.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.2
EPS, diluted $−4.01−4.53−12.34−0.0912.59−9.594.68◌◌◌◌◌◌2.612.902.893.082.79
Dividend / sh $◌◌◌◌◌◌◌2.24◌◌0.200.15◌◌◌◌◌◌
Payout %—−3−0−00−048333314212000————
ROE %———−0.6117.4−85.426.725.617.520.010.49.48.610.212.113.315.515.0
Shares out B0.020.010.010.010.010.010.010.020.020.020.020.020.020.020.020.030.03◌

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Provenance

Company facts, as filed

How we verify · 0 failures in 82 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 18 of the 18 fiscal years we could check. Four checks were skipped: the balance sheet is not tagged before 2009. One check was skipped: EPS is not tagged before 2008. One check was skipped: revenue is not tagged before 2008.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquidityCurrency consistency0 failures
ActivityRetail-Family Clothing Stores
Listed onNASDAQ
Incorporated innot stated in the filings
Fiscal year endsJanuary 31
SEC categorysmaller reporting company
Data on record since2008

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