Children's Place, Inc. (PLCE)

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Children's Place, Inc.'s filings since 2017 show 6 warning events of 4 kinds: a bankruptcy or receivership notice (8-K item 1.03, the latest 2026-11-09); a debt default or acceleration notice (8-K item 2.04, the latest 2026-11-09); an auditor change (8-K item 4.01, 3 times, the latest 2024-08-16); a late-report notice (Form NT 10-K or NT 10-Q, the latest 2024-04-18) (its current reports).

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Children's Place, Inc.'s 7 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $1.9 billion in fiscal 2020 to $1.2 billion in fiscal 2026, down 7% a year; it rose in 1 of 6 years; the deepest fall was 37% from fiscal 2022 to fiscal 2026; net income was positive in 2 of 7 of those years (its annual reports).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2026-01-31, Children's Place, Inc.'s shareholders' equity was below zero, so the profit on it is not read, and gross profitability: its products earned about 54 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 108 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 72.6% over the year (the filed statements).

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Children's Place, Inc.'s standing among 10 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $1.2 billion in fiscal 2026 ranks in the bottom 25% by size; a net margin of -7.3% ranks in the bottom 15%; revenue growth of -10.9% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 5% (its annual reports).

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Children's Place, Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: no one files under a chief executive's title, so that part is not read; the 11 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 2.7 years (bottom 5%); 25 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 11 people in charge now (bottom 5%; 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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Children's Place, Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2026): cash of $5 million against no long-term debt tagged leaves 0.8% of its assets as net cash, bottom 15% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is -0.8% of revenue (bottom 15%); a gross margin of 29.9% (bottom 17%) (its annual report).

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Children's Place, Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2026: revenue grew -10.9% a year over the last three filed years against -7% over all 7, slowing (bottom 25% of its family); the newest year grew -12.8% (bottom 5%); capital spending grew -27.4% a year (bottom 5%) (its annual reports). Children's Place, Inc. reported 2 lines of business in fiscal 2025: The Childrens Place US at $1.3 billion, The Childrens Place International at $120 million. 0 of 2 grew in the latest filed year, and the largest line is 91% of revenue (its annual report).

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Children's Place, Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $1.2 billion in fiscal 2026 came in 3.3% below the $1.2 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 15% of its family); net income of $88 million against a prior three-year average of $71 million (bottom 15%); a net margin of -7.3% against -4.6% before (bottom 15%) (its annual reports).