Carter's Inc. (CRI)

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Carter's Inc.'s filings since 2017 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

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Carter's Inc.'s 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $3.2 billion in fiscal 2016 to $2.9 billion in fiscal 2026, down 1.1% a year; it rose in 5 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 19% from fiscal 2019 to fiscal 2024; net income was positive in 10 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2026-01-03, Carter's Inc.'s diluted share count shrank about 3.0% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 46% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 0 sales and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-09-30 (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2026-01-03, Carter's Inc. earned about 10 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 51 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 64 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 0.3% over the year (the filed statements).

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Carter's Inc.'s standing among 19 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $2.9 billion in fiscal 2026 ranks in the bottom 39% by size; a net margin of 3.2% ranks in the top 50%; revenue growth of -3.4% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 29% (its annual reports).

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Carter's Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is John, Sharon Price (CEO & President, as filed), filing under that title since 2026-06-17, 5 months (bottom 32% of its family); the 19 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 4.5 years (bottom 45%); 9 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 19 people in charge now (top 45%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

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Carter's Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2026): cash of $487 million against debt of $567 million leaves -3.1% of its assets as net cash, bottom 34% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 2.4% of revenue (bottom 39%); a gross margin of 45.4% (bottom 45%) (its annual report).

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Carter's Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2026: revenue grew -3.4% a year over the last three filed years against -1.1% over all 10, slowing (top 29% of its family); the newest year grew 1.9% (top 39%); capital spending grew 10% a year (top 44%) (its annual reports). Carter's Inc. reported 3 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Retail at $1.5 billion (51%), Wholesale at $1.0 billion (35%), International at $431 million (15%); 2 of 3 grew against the year before (its annual report).

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Carter's Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $2.9 billion in fiscal 2026 came in 8.3% above the $2.7 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 21% of its family); net income of $92 million against a prior three-year average of $223 million (bottom 21%); a net margin of 3.2% against 7.4% before (bottom 21%) (its annual reports).