Childrens Place Inc (NASDAQ:PLCE) price on Thursday, July 03, rose 1.24% above its previous day’s close as an upside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $4.89.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the close in the last trading session was $4.83, moving within a range at $4.8 and $4.97. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 1.828. Turning to its 52-week performance, $19.74 and $3.66 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, PLCE moved -17.68% over the past month.
Childrens Place Inc’s market cap currently stands at around $108.40 million, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for on 2025-Jun-06.
Turning to the stock’s technical picture we see that short term indicators suggest on average that PLCE is a 50% Sell. On the other hand, the stock is on average a 100% Sell as suggested by medium term indicators while long term indicators are putting the stock in 100% Sell category.
2 analyst(s) have given their forecast ratings for the stock on a scale of 1.00-5.00 for a strong buy to strong sell recommendation. A total of 1 analyst(s) rate the stock as a Hold, 0 recommend PLCE as a Buy and 0 give it an Overweight rating. Meanwhile, 0 analyst(s) rate the stock as Underweight and 1 say it is a Sell. As such, the average rating for the stock is Hold which could provide an opportunity for investors keen on increasing their holdings of the company’s stock.
PLCE’s current price about 9.73% and -7.28% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 51.67, while 7-day volatility ratio is 7.10% and 7.98% in the 30-day chart. Further, Childrens Place Inc (PLCE) has a beta value of 1.87. Analysts have given the company’s stock an average 52-week price target of $11, forecast between a low of $11 and high of $11. Looking at the price targets, the low is -124.95% off current price level while to achieve the yearly target high, price needs to move -124.95%. Nonetheless, investors will most likely welcome a -124.95% jump to $11 which is the analysts’ median price.
If we refocus on Childrens Place Inc (NASDAQ:PLCE), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 0.78 over the past 10 days and 783.51K over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 22.06 million shares.
The 67.20% of Childrens Place Inc’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 18.98% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 3.78 million on 2025-06-13, giving us a short ratio of 4.03. The data shows that as of 2025-06-13 short interest in Childrens Place Inc (PLCE) stood at 4534.0001999999995 of shares outstanding, with shares short rising to 3.15 million registered in 2025-05-15. Current price change has pushed the stock -35.66% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the PLCE stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
