Carters is UNDERVALUED at 89.01 per share with modest projections ahead.
Macroaxis provides advice on Carters to complement and cross-verify current
analyst consensus on Carters. Our investment recommendation engine determines the company's potential to grow exclusively from the perspective of an investor's current risk tolerance and investing horizon.
What is the right price you would pay to acquire a share of Carters? For most investors, it would be the price that gives them a wide margin of safety to have minimal downside risk. In other words, most investors are always looking for undervalued stocks. Even if the
future performance is not entirely as expected, the loss of holding it is minimized, and the downside risk is negated. Please read more on our
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What is happening with Carters this year
Annual and quarterly reports issued by Carters are formal
financial statements that are published yearly and quarterly and sent to Carters stockholders. The reports show and break down the current year's ongoing operations and discuss plans for the upcoming year. Annual reports have been a requirement from the
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for businesses owned by the public since 1934.
Companies such as Carters often view their annual report as an effective marketing tool to disseminate their perspective on company
future earnings or innovations. With this in mind, many companies devote large sums of money to making their reports attractive and informative. In such instances, the annual report becomes a forum through which a company can communicate to the general public any number of topics that may or may not be directly related to the actual data published in the reports.
Carters Gross Profit
Carters Gross Profit growth is one of the most critical measures in evaluating the company. The Gross Profit growth rate is calculated simply by comparing Carters previous period's values with its current period's values. Each time period you're measuring should be of equal lengths the increase or decrease, in a company's Gross Profit between two periods. Here we show Carters Gross Profit growth over the last 10 years. Please check Carters'
gross profit and other
fundamental indicators for more details.
Is Carters a risky opportunity?
Let's check the volatility. Carters is looking slightly risky at this time. Whether you invest your money or manage your clients' funds, remember that it is easy to forget that behind Carters (NYSE:CRI) stock is an actual business venture. So, do not let stock picking become an abstract concept by ignoring the elementary risk calculations. locking in a share of a Carters stock makes you a part-owner of that company.
Carters Current Consensus
Here is the current trade recommendation based on an ongoing consensus estimate among financial analysis covering Carters. The Carters consensus assessment is calculated by taking the average estimates from all of the analysts covering Carters
| Strong Buy | 4 | 66.67 |
| Buy | 0 | 0.0 |
| Hold | 2 | 33.33 |
| Sell | 0 | 0.0 |
| Strong Sell | 0 | 0.0 |
Will Carters continue to go bananas?
Treynor ratio is down to 0.44. It may hint to a possible volatility drop. Carters currently demonstrates below-average downside deviation. It has Information Ratio of 0.02 and Jensen Alpha of 0.1. However, we advise investors to further question Carters expected returns to ensure all indicators are consistent with the current outlook about its relatively low value at risk. Understanding different market volatility trends often help investors to time the market. Properly using volatility indicators enable traders to measure Carters' stock risk against market volatility during both bullying and bearish trends. The higher level of volatility that comes with bear markets can directly impact Carters' stock price while adding stress to investors as they watch their shares' value plummet. This usually forces investors to rebalance their portfolios by buying different stocks as prices fall.
Our Final Takeaway
While some firms in the apparel retail industry are either recovering or due for a correction, Carters may not be performing as strong as the other in terms of long-term growth potentials. While some stockholders may not share our view we believe that the current risk-reward utility is not appealing enough to do any trading. Please use our equity advice module to run different scenarios to ensure your current risk level and investment horizon are fully reflective of your current investing preferences in regards to Carters.
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Rifka Kats is a Member of Macroaxis Editorial Board. Rifka writes about retail product and service companies from the perspective of a regular consumer and sophisticated investor at the same time. She is passionate about corporate ethics and equality in the workforce.
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