PLCE vs. ZUMZ, GCO, CTRN, DBI, TLYS, CATO, TJX, ROST, URBN, and ANF
Should you be buying Children's Place stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Children's Place include Zumiez (ZUMZ), Genesco (GCO), Citi Trends (CTRN), Designer Brands (DBI), Tilly's (TLYS), Cato (CATO), TJX Companies (TJX), Ross Stores (ROST), Urban Outfitters (URBN), and Abercrombie & Fitch (ANF). These companies are all part of the "apparel retail" industry.
Children's Place vs.
Children's Place (NASDAQ:PLCE) and Zumiez (NASDAQ:ZUMZ) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment and risk.
Zumiez has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Children's Place. Zumiez is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Children's Place, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Zumiez has a net margin of -5.60% compared to Children's Place's net margin of -12.47%. Zumiez's return on equity of -2.67% beat Children's Place's return on equity.
Children's Place presently has a consensus target price of $8.33, suggesting a potential downside of 7.61%. Zumiez has a consensus target price of $22.00, suggesting a potential upside of 44.36%. Given Zumiez's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Zumiez is more favorable than Children's Place.
Children's Place has a beta of 2.47, indicating that its share price is 147% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Zumiez has a beta of 1.23, indicating that its share price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500.
95.4% of Zumiez shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.7% of Children's Place shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 20.3% of Zumiez shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Zumiez had 11 more articles in the media than Children's Place. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for Zumiez and 5 mentions for Children's Place. Zumiez's average media sentiment score of 1.01 beat Children's Place's score of 0.29 indicating that Zumiez is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Children's Place received 109 more outperform votes than Zumiez when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.96% of users gave Children's Place an outperform vote while only 47.84% of users gave Zumiez an outperform vote.
Summary
Zumiez beats Children's Place on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:PLCE) was last updated on 3/25/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
