Carters Inc (NYSE: CRI) Emerges As Guiding Light For Investors

Carters Inc (NYSE:CRI) currently has a daily average trading volume of 1.85M but it saw 1688728 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 1.18B USD, the company’s current market price of $32.36 came rising about 0.72 while comparing to the previous closing price of $32.13. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $71.99 and as low as $31.46.

The company’s shares got several price updates from the analyst firms in past one month and most recent of them is from the Wells Fargo which downgraded the stock as “Underweight” in its note to investors issued on April 30, 2025, recommending a price target of $25 for it. Citigroup issued its recommendations for the stock as it upgraded the price target for the stock is $50.

Over the week, CRI’s stock price is moving -10.83% down while it is -13.17% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is -40.28% down and over the past year, the stock is showing a downside performance of -52.14%.

The company is expected to be releasing its next quarterly report in June, for which analysts forecasted an EPS of 0.36 while estimate for next year EPS is 3.4. In next quarter, company is expected to be making quarterly sales of $737.11M as analysts are expecting the sales for current fiscal year at $2.79B and seeing the company making $2.76B in sales next year. Moreover, analysts are in estimates of $563.24M for current-quarter revenue.

Currently, Carters Inc’s total number of outstanding shares is 36.24M with 3.14% of that held by the insiders while 116.57% of its common stock has been owned by the institutions. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 8.66% and return on equity (ROE) at 18.91%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 7.16 while having a 12.27 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 1.02. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 1.38 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 0.42. Its return on asset (ROA) is 6.92% on average.