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Carter's, Inc.

CRI Consumer Cyclical Apparel Retail

Carter's, Inc.’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $2.9 billion, up 1.91% from fiscal 2024. In the quarter to June 2026, revenue grew 5.16%, EPS grew 28,600.0%, free cash flow grew 688.4% and total debt rose 13.9%, each against the same quarter a year earlier.

31.45 1.19 −3.65%
Market cap
$1.2B
P/E
5.9×
Fwd P/E
11.6×
Dividend yield
3.18%
F-score
5/9
Altman Z
2.60
Beneish M
−2.61
Dividend safety
42/100
Overview Business Profile Financial Analysis Income Statement Balance Sheet Cash Flow Metrics & Ratios 10-Q 10-K

Insider Decisions trades per month

Dec 25 Mar 26 Jun 26 Sep 26
Buy — — — — — — — — — — — —
Sell — — — — — — — — — — — —
Insider Ownership 2.17%

Capital & Financial Ratios $m

Market Cap 1,200.00
Revenue 2,979.89
Net Income 195.11
Free Cash Flow 293.01
Net Debt (85.76)
Current Ratio 2.47 (at or above 1.5: strong)
Debt/Equity 0.55
P/E ratio 5.89
Fwd P/E 11.60
P/S ratio 0.38
P/B ratio 1.09
Past 5Y EPS Growth 0.24%
This Y EPS Growth (6.90%) (below 0%: weak)
Next Y EPS Growth 9.96%
Next Y revenue growth 2.75%
Next 5Y EPS Growth 3.65%

Green and red mark values outside typical ranges. How we judge →

Valuation vs history

EV/Sales, ten years
EV/Sales is 0.5×, against a ten-year median of 1.2×; over the ten years it ranged from 0.5× in 2026 to 1.9× in 2017.
P/E against its own 10 years 0.59%
10-year low 10-year high
P/S against its own 10 years 2.69%
10-year low 10-year high
P/B against its own 10 years 1.22%
10-year low 10-year high
EV/Sales against its own 10 years 0.59%
10-year low 10-year high
EV/FCF against its own 10 years 8.96%
10-year low 10-year high

Dividends

Payout Ratio 0.19
Annual Dividend Rate 1.00
Annual Dividend Yield 3.18%
total individual payouts
2028 Powerpack
2027 Powerpack
2026 1.00
0.25
0.25
0.25
2025 1.55
0.80
0.25
0.25
0.25
2024 3.20
0.80
0.80
0.80
0.80
2023 3.00
0.75
0.75
0.75
0.75
2022 3.00
0.75
0.75
0.75
0.75
2021 1.40
0.40
0.40
0.60
2020 0.60
0.60
2019 2.00
0.50
0.50
0.50
0.50
2018 1.80
0.45
0.45
0.45
0.45
2017 1.48
0.37
0.37
0.37
0.37
2016 1.32
0.33
0.33
0.33
0.33
predictions special payouts not included in total or ratios

Assets vs Liabilities $m

2023 2024 2025 Q'26
Cash 351 413 487 654
Receivables 184 195 179 168
Inventory 537 502 545 578
Other — — — —
1,101 1,143 1,271 1,473
2023 2024 2025 Q'26
Payables 242 248 236 324
ST’ Debt — — — —
Other 134 130 134 140
512 509 506 596

Compound Annual Growth %

10y 5y 3y
Sales (0.39%) (0.85%) (3.37%)
Cash Flow (8.82%) (26.96%) 11.45%
Earnings (9.23%) (3.99%) (28.65%)
Book Value 0.56% (0.28%) 5.12%

Revenue $m

Mar Jun Sep Dec Year
’26 681 615 — — —
’25 630 585 758 925 2,898
’24 661 564 758 860 2,844
’23 696 600 792 858 2,946
’22 781 701 819 912 3,213
’21 787 746 891 1,062 3,486
’20 654 515 865 990 3,024
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

Operating Cash Flow $m

Mar Jun Sep Dec Year
’26 6 196 — — —
’25 (49) 40 (128) 259 122
’24 (26) 117 (80) 287 299
’23 42 167 (3) 323 529
’22 (164) 70 (124) 306 88
’21 (40) 89 (42) 261 268
’20 (14) 252 81 270 588
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

Free Cash Flow $m

Mar Jun Sep Dec Year
’26 (1) 190 — — —
’25 (59) 24 (144) 248 69
’24 (38) 105 (96) 271 243
’23 28 155 (20) 306 469
’22 (171) 62 (134) 292 48
’21 (51) 80 (50) 252 231
’20 (22) 243 73 262 556
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

EPS $

Mar Jun Sep Dec Year
’26 0.39 2.87 — — —
’25 0.43 0.01 0.32 1.76 2.53
’24 1.02 0.76 1.62 1.71 5.12
’23 0.95 0.64 1.78 2.90 6.24
’22 1.66 0.93 1.67 2.11 6.34
’21 1.96 1.62 1.93 2.31 7.81
’20 (1.82) 0.19 1.85 2.26 2.50
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

Target Price Range

Analyst price targets

Recommendation Rating

2.4
1Buy 2 3Hold 4 5Sell

Ten years at a glance Fiscal years to December

Group Line 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 Trend 2026e 2027e 2028e
Price, $
Price, $ Low 83.44 77.94 75.66 77.00 60.17 80.50 62.66 60.66 50.27 23.38

Analyst estimates 2026–2028

Powerpack
High 112.58 118.89 129.00 111.97 112.46 116.92 105.25 86.76 88.03 56.89
People
People Employees 18,300 21,200 21,245 20,300 18,000 15,900 15,500 15,230 15,350 15,400
Revenue/emp, $m 0.17 0.16 0.16 0.17 0.17 0.22 0.21 0.19 0.19 0.19
Income, $m
Income, $m Revenue 3,199 3,401 3,462 3,519 3,024 3,486 3,213 2,946 2,844 2,898
Gross margin, % 43.10 43.62 43.25 42.87 43.43 47.68 45.83 47.39 48.00 45.36
EBT 395 391 356 328 135 438 317 302 231 114
EBT margin, % 12.36 11.50 10.28 9.32 4.46 12.57 9.86 10.26 8.12 3.93
Net income 258 303 282 264 110 340 250 233 186 92
Depreciation 75 86 91 128 114 97 76 66 60 57
Per share, $
Per share, $ Revenue 64.08 71.45 75.00 79.26 69.94 81.36 82.75 80.50 80.06 81.86
Earnings 5.13 6.31 6.06 5.89 2.51 7.83 6.34 6.24 5.12 2.53
Cash flow 7.40 6.93 7.72 8.72 13.61 6.26 2.28 14.46 8.41 3.46
Capex (1.77) (4.79) (1.37) (1.37) (0.76) (0.87) (1.04) (1.64) (1.58) (1.52)
Free cash flow 5.63 2.14 6.35 7.35 12.85 5.39 1.24 12.83 6.83 1.94
Book value 15.79 18.02 18.83 19.82 21.69 22.17 20.51 23.10 24.06 26.13
Shares, m 50 48 46 44 43 43 39 37 36 35
Valuation, ×
Valuation, × P/E 16.85 18.56 13.38 18.47 37.78 12.89 11.74 12.03 10.60 12.87
P/S 1.36 1.65 1.09 1.38 1.35 1.24 0.90 0.94 0.68 0.40
P/B 5.51 6.54 4.33 5.52 4.34 4.57 3.65 3.26 2.25 1.24
EV/Sales 1.44 1.78 1.21 1.53 1.37 1.29 1.18 1.15 0.88 0.59
EV/FCF 19.31 61.61 31.17 32.08 10.42 62.01 (34.47) 10.94 29.74 (19.21)
Cash, $m
Cash, $m Operating cash flow 369 330 356 387 588 268 88 529 299 122
Capex (88) (228) (63) (61) (33) (37) (40) (60) (56) (54)
Free cash flow 281 102 293 327 556 231 48 469 243 69
Balance, $m
Balance, $m Working capital 779 689 716 632 1,153 1,182 660 589 634 765
Total debt 580 617 593 595 990 991 617 497 498 567
Net debt 281 439 423 380 (113) 7 405 146 85 80
Shareholders’ equity 788 857 869 880 938 950 796 845 855 925
Returns, %
Returns, % ROA 12.94 15.08 13.56 10.96 3.57 10.20 8.75 9.47 7.56 3.58
ROIC 24.90 20.23 18.93 18.44 14.38 32.45 19.73 20.39 16.94 8.95
ROE 30.74 36.81 32.42 30.16 12.07 35.55 28.21 27.80 21.39 10.06
Negative figures in brackets.

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Fiscal years to Dec 2025 · latest quarter Jun 2026

Charts ten years each

Carter's, Inc. vs peers in Apparel Retail (Q) = latest quarter vs a year earlier

Company Market cap P/E Fwd P/E Revenue growth (Q) EPS growth (Q) FCF growth (Q) Gross margin (Q) EBIT margin (Q) Compare
BOOT Boot Barn Holdings, Inc. $3.7B 15.3× 19.6× +17.75% (above 0%: growing) +32.00% (above 0%: growing) −22.73% (below 0%: shrinking) 40.42% 15.25% Compare
AEO American Eagle Outfitters, Inc. $3.0B 9.0× 9.6× +7.53% (above 0%: growing) +77.78% (above 0%: growing) +367.29% (above 0%: growing) 48.69% 15.32% Compare
BKE Buckle, Inc. (The) $2.4B 10.6× 10.5× +4.60% (above 0%: growing) −2.22% (below 0%: shrinking) −63.66% (below 0%: shrinking) 47.85% 17.45% Compare
CRI Carter's, Inc. $1.2B 5.9× 11.6× +5.16% (above 0%: growing) +28,600.00% (above 0%: growing) +688.36% (above 0%: growing) 67.04% 22.72%
CAL Caleres, Inc. $453.4M 8.6× 6.4× +5.61% (above 0%: growing) +760.00% (above 0%: growing) +118.94% (above 0%: growing) 54.78% 11.16% Compare
CTRN Citi Trends, Inc. $416.5M 54.7× 30.2× +10.95% (above 0%: growing) n/m −353.58% (below 0%: shrinking) 40.58% (0.81%) Compare
GCO Genesco Inc. $404.9M 9.2× 6.5× −2.95% (below 0%: shrinking) n/m −16.21% (below 0%: shrinking) 51.36% 0.68% Compare
SHOE Shoe Station Group Inc. $376.2M 15.5× 11.0× −7.21% (below 0%: shrinking) −67.14% (below 0%: shrinking) +197.41% (above 0%: growing) 31.87% 2.68% Compare
JILL J.Jill, Inc. $366.8M 13.5× 6.4× +0.55% (above 0%: growing) +62.32% (above 0%: growing) +165.10% (above 0%: growing) 76.85% 15.68% Compare
Median of peers $434.9M 12.0× 10.1× +5.11% +47.16% +51.37% 48.27% 13.21%

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Carter's, Inc. (CRI) key facts

  • Concern: Net income was $91.8 million, or $2.53 per share (basic), a net margin of 3.09%.
  • Strength: Carter's, Inc.’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $2.9 billion, up 1.91% from fiscal 2024.
  • Carter's, Inc. (CRI) is an Apparel Retail company in the Consumer Cyclical sector, listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
  • As of October 16, 2026, CRI traded at $31.45, a market capitalization of $1.2 billion.
  • At that price the stock trades at 5.9× trailing-twelve-month earnings and 0.4× sales; its P/E is higher than 1% of its own readings over the past ten years.
  • Carter's, Inc. pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share, a yield of 3.18%, with a payout ratio of 18.7%.
  • Return on equity was 10.1% and debt-to-equity 0.55.
  • Its Piotroski F-score is 5 out of 9 and its Altman Z-score is 2.60 (grey zone) for fiscal 2025.

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