Carter's, Inc.
boothcheck covers Carter's, Inc. (CRI) but does not put one priced-in number on it: here the defensible answer is the evidence rather than a point estimate. boothcheck publishes no house fair value, target price, or buy/sell rating. Narrative composed July 25, 2026.
• Carter's is the largest seller of baby clothes in the United States, holding ⟦approximately 21% in the zero to two-year-old baby market⟧ and reaching parents three ways at once: its own stores, its own websites, and exclusive lines carried by Amazon, Target and Walmart [Source: FY2025 Form 10-K]. • Tariffs are the live problem, adding roughly 50 million dollars to cost of goods sold in the first quarter of fiscal 2026 alone, a quarter in which the entire company produced 28.4 million dollars o
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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: 2026-08-20 (items 7.01, 9.01); 2026-07-31 (items 2.02, 9.01); 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).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Dates link to the filing on EDGAR. Nothing here is investment advice.
Model solve date: 2026-Q2
Narrative composed: July 25, 2026
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