Carters Inc (NYSE:CRI) price on Thursday, July 03, fall -2.17% below its previous day’s close as a downside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $31.49.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the close in the last trading session was $32.19, moving within a range at $31.29 and $32.4. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 1.002 while the PE ratio in trailing twelve months stood at 6.97. Turning to its 52-week performance, $71.99 and $29.36 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, CRI moved -0.19% over the past month.
Carters Inc’s market cap currently stands at around $1.15 billion, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for on 2025-Apr-25. The company has a Forward Dividend ratio of 2.65, with its dividend yield at 8.42%. As such, investors might be keen on an upside in the stock’s price ahead of the scheduled earnings report.
Analysts have a consensus estimate of 563.24M for the company’s revenue for the quarter, with a low and high estimate of 553.83M and 570.36M respectively. The average forecast suggests down to a -0.21% growth in sales growth compared to quarterly growth in the same period last fiscal year. Wall Street analysts have also projected the company’s year-on-year revenue to grow to 2.79B, representing a -2.05% decline on that reported in the last financial year.
Turning to the stock’s technical picture we see that short term indicators suggest on average that CRI 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 CRI as a Buy and 1 give it an Overweight rating. Meanwhile, 0 analyst(s) rate the stock as Underweight and 0 say it is a Sell. As such, the average rating for the stock is Strong Buy which could provide an opportunity for investors keen on increasing their holdings of the company’s stock.
CRI’s current price about 0.98% and -4.09% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 48.81, while 7-day volatility ratio is 5.42% and 3.79% in the 30-day chart. Further, Carters Inc (CRI) has a beta value of 1.00. Analysts have given the company’s stock an average 52-week price target of $25, forecast between a low of $25 and high of $25. Looking at the price targets, the low is 20.61% off current price level while to achieve the yearly target high, price needs to move 20.61%. Nonetheless, investors will most likely welcome a 20.61% jump to $25 which is the analysts’ median price.
If we refocus on Carters Inc (NYSE:CRI), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 1.87 over the past 10 days and 1.72 million over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 36.24 million shares.
The 4.08% of Carters Inc’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 113.95% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 4.49 million on 2025-06-13, giving us a short ratio of 2.97. The data shows that as of 2025-06-13 short interest in Carters Inc (CRI) stood at 1613.9999 of shares outstanding, with shares short falling to 5.3 million registered in 2025-05-15. Current price change has pushed the stock -48.47% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the CRI stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
