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Children's Place (Children's Place) Financial Strength : 3 (As of Oct. 2023)


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What is Children's Place Financial Strength?

Children's Place has the Financial Strength Rank of 3. It displays poor financial strength and is likely in financial distress. Usually this is caused by too much debt for the company.

Warning Sign:

Children's Place Inc displays poor financial strength. Usually, this is caused by too much debt for the company.

GuruFocus Financial Strength Rank measures how strong a company's financial situation is. It is based on these factors:

1. The debt burden that the company has as measured by its Interest Coverage (current year). The higher, the better.
2. Debt to revenue ratio. The lower, the better.
3. Altman Z-Score.

Children's Place's Interest Coverage for the quarter that ended in Oct. 2023 was 5.73. Children's Place's debt to revenue ratio for the quarter that ended in Oct. 2023 was 0.29. As of today, Children's Place's Altman Z-Score is 1.27.


Competitive Comparison of Children's Place's Financial Strength

For the Apparel Retail subindustry, Children's Place's Financial Strength, along with its competitors' market caps and Financial Strength data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.


Children's Place's Financial Strength Distribution in the Retail - Cyclical Industry

For the Retail - Cyclical industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, Children's Place's Financial Strength distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Children's Place's Financial Strength falls into.



Children's Place Financial Strength Calculation

GuruFocus Financial Strength Rank measures how strong a company's financial situation is. It is based on these factors

A company ranks high with financial strength is likely to withstand any business slowdowns and recessions.

1. The debt burden that the company has as measured by its Interest Coverage (current year). The higher, the better.

Note: If both Interest Expense and Interest Income are empty, while Net Interest Income is negative, then use Net Interest Income as Interest Expense.

Interest Coverage is a ratio that determines how easily a company can pay interest expenses on outstanding debt. It is calculated by dividing a company's Operating Income (EBIT) by its Interest Expense:

Children's Place's Interest Expense for the months ended in Oct. 2023 was $-8 Mil. Its Operating Income for the months ended in Oct. 2023 was $46 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Oct. 2023 was $126 Mil.

Children's Place's Interest Coverage for the quarter that ended in Oct. 2023 is

Interest Coverage=-1*Operating Income (Q: Oct. 2023 )/Interest Expense (Q: Oct. 2023 )
=-1*45.55/-7.956
=5.73

The higher the ratio, the stronger the company's financial strength is.

2. Debt to revenue ratio. The lower, the better.

Children's Place's Debt to Revenue Ratio for the quarter that ended in Oct. 2023 is

Debt to Revenue Ratio=Total Debt (Q: Oct. 2023 ) / Revenue
=(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation) / Revenue
=(424.895 + 126.442) / 1920.936
=0.29

3. Altman Z-Score.

Z-Score model is an accurate forecaster of failure up to two years prior to distress. It can be considered the assessment of the distress of industrial corporations.

The zones of discrimination were as such:

When Z-Score is less than 1.81, it is in Distress Zones.
When Z-Score is greater than 2.99, it is in Safe Zones.
When Z-Score is between 1.81 and 2.99, it is in Grey Zones.

Children's Place has a Z-score of 1.27, indicating it is in Distress Zones. This implies bankrupcy possibility in the next two years.

Warning Sign:

Altman Z-score of 1.27 is in distress zone. This implies bankruptcy possibility in the next two years.

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.


Children's Place  (NAS:PLCE) Financial Strength Explanation

The maximum rank is 10. Companies with rank 7 or higher will be unlikely to fall into distressed situations. Companies with rank of 3 or less are likely in financial distress.

Children's Place has the Financial Strength Rank of 3. It displays poor financial strength and is likely in financial distress. Usually this is caused by too much debt for the company.


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Children's Place (Children's Place) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
500 Plaza Drive, Secaucus, NJ, USA, 07094
Children's Place Inc is pure-play children's specialty apparel retailer in North America. It design, contract to manufacture, sell at retail and wholesale, and license to sell, trend right, high quality merchandise predominantly at value prices, under proprietary The Children's Place, Place, Baby Place, Gymboree, Sugar & Jade, and PJ Place brand names.
Executives
Maegan Markee officer: BRAND PRESIDENT 500 PLAZA DRIVE, SECAUCUS NJ 07094
Alicia Enciso director 1721 VALLEY AVENUE, MCLEAN VA 22101
Jane T Elfers officer: President and CEO C/O THE CHILDRENS PLACE RETAIL STORES, 915 SECAUCUS ROAD, SECAUCUS NJ 07094
Wesley S Mcdonald director
Michael A Shaffer director C/O PHILLIPS-VAN HEUSEN CORPORATION, 200 MADISON AVENUE, NEW YORK NY 10016
Sheamus Toal officer: SVP, CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER 450 W. 33RD STREET, 5TH FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10001
John E. Bachman director 77 EXETER STREET, 1809, BOSTON MA 02116
Joseph A Alutto director 810 CURLEYS COURT, COLUMBUS OH 43235
Jared Shure officer: SVP, GEN COUNSEL & SECRETARY 500 PLAZA DRIVE, THE CHILDREN'S PLACE, SECAUCUS NJ 07094
Elizabeth J Boland director C/O BRIGHT HORIZONS FAMILY SOLUTIONS, 2 WELLS AVENUE, NEWTON MA 02459
Deborah Derby officer: CHIEF ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER TOYS R US INC, 225 SUMMIT AVE, MONTVALE NJ 07645
Katherine Kountze director 500 PLAZA DRIVE, C/O THE CHILDREN'S PLACE, SECAUCUS NJ 07094
Michael D Rinaldo officer: CHIEF ACCOUNTING OFFICER C/O TIFFANY & CO., 727 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK NY 10022
Leah Swan officer: CHIEF ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER 500 PLAZA DRIVE, C/O THE CHILDREN'S PLACE, INC., SECAUCUS NJ 07094
Robert F Helm officer: SVP, FINANCE & INV MGMT (CAO) 500 PLAZA DRIVE, THE CHILDREN'S PLACE, SECAUCUS NJ 07094

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