Carter's, Inc.
Carter's, Inc. (CRI) has a dated report snapshot, but its current priced-in claim is temporarily suppressed because the live engine record is unavailable or has changed.
• Carter's is the largest US apparel company focused on babies and young children, holding what its filings describe as ⟦"a leading market share of approximately 9%"⟧ with particular strength in the zero-to-two-year-old segment. [Source: CRI FY2025 10-K, accession 0001060822-26-000016] • The defining number is the margin gap: operating margin fell to 5.0% in fiscal 2025 from 9.0% a year earlier, and the bet is whether that is a cyclical trough or a new lower baseline. • What to watch is leadersh
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265 institutional managers reported holding CRI in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. 44 opened new positions that quarter. Held by BlackRock, Vanguard Group, Dimensional Fund Advisors, among others. On the short side, 3.1M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 9% of shares outstanding (3.7 days of typical volume to cover).
Quarterly 13F filings arrive up to 45 days after quarter end, so the picture is never current (filed through 2026-05-29). Nothing here is investment advice.
CRI has cut its share count 18.3% over the past five years, spending $749.57M on repurchases. It pays a dividend, and has for 13 years running; the current rate is $1.55 a share annually. Cash returned over the past three years: $237.12M in dividends and $110.64M in repurchases.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
No open-market insider buys on file at CRI over the trailing three years. Absence is a fact about the company, not a signal. 23 officers and directors are on file.
Code P open-market purchases from SEC Form 4 filings, non-derivative, excluding scheduled 10b5-1 plans. Nothing here is investment advice.
CRI's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-04-29 | +1.2% | +4.1% |
| 2023-07-29 | +1.1% | -8.4% |
| 2023-10-28 | +0.2% | +16.4% |
| 2024-02-28 | +0.6% | -16.5% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
CRI's latest 8-K filings: 2026-05-14 (items 5.07, 7.01, 9.01); 2026-05-06 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2026-05-01 (items 2.02, 5.02, 7.01, 9.01); 2026-02-27 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2026-01-09 (items 2.02, 9.01).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Nothing here is investment advice.
Last analyzed: June 27, 2026
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