Carters Stock Price Prediction

CRI Stock  USD 26.07  0.22  0.84%   
The relative strength index (RSI) of Carters' share price is below 30 as of 16th of August 2025 suggesting that the stock is becoming oversold or undervalued. The main point of the Relative Strength Index (RSI) is to track how fast people are buying or selling Carters, making its price go up or down.

Momentum 26

 Sell Stretched

 
Oversold
 
Overbought
The successful prediction of Carters' future price could yield a significant profit. We analyze noise-free headlines and recent hype associated with Carters, which may create opportunities for some arbitrage if properly timed. Below are the key fundamental drivers impacting Carters' stock price prediction:
Quarterly Earnings Growth
(0.99)
EPS Estimate Next Quarter
0.7387
EPS Estimate Current Year
3.0219
EPS Estimate Next Year
2.4376
Wall Street Target Price
24.6
Using Carters hype-based prediction, you can estimate the value of Carters from the perspective of Carters response to recently generated media hype and the effects of current headlines on its competitors. We also analyze overall investor sentiment towards Carters using Carters' stock options and short interest. It helps to benchmark the overall future attitude of investors towards Carters using crowd psychology based on the activity and movement of Carters' stock price.

Carters Short Interest

A significant increase or decrease in Carters' short interest from the previous month could be a good indicator of investor sentiment towards Carters. Short interest can provide insight into the potential direction of Carters stock and how bullish or bearish investors feel about the market overall.
200 Day MA
42.063
Short Percent
0.175
Short Ratio
2.74
Shares Short Prior Month
M
50 Day MA
29.6254

Carters Hype to Price Pattern

Investor biases related to Carters' public news can be used to forecast risks associated with an investment in Carters. The trend in average sentiment can be used to explain how an investor holding Carters can time the market purely based on public headlines and social activities around Carters. Please note that most equities that are difficult to arbitrage are affected by market sentiment the most.
Some investors profit by finding stocks that are overvalued or undervalued based on market sentiment. The correlation of Carters' market sentiment to its price can help taders to make decisions based on the overall investors consensus about Carters.

Carters Implied Volatility

    
  0.59  
Carters' implied volatility exposes the market's sentiment of Carters stock's possible movements over time. However, it does not forecast the overall direction of its price. In a nutshell, if Carters' implied volatility is high, the market thinks the stock has potential for high price swings in either direction. On the other hand, the low implied volatility suggests that Carters stock will not fluctuate a lot when Carters' options are near their expiration.
The fear of missing out, i.e., FOMO, can cause potential investors in Carters to buy its stock at a price that has no basis in reality. In that case, they are not buying Carters because the equity is a good investment, but because they need to do something to avoid the feeling of missing out. On the other hand, investors will often sell stocks at prices well below their value during bear markets because they need to stop feeling the pain of losing money.

Carters after-hype prediction price

    
  USD 26.27  
There is no one specific way to measure market sentiment using hype analysis or a similar predictive technique. This prediction method should be used in combination with more fundamental and traditional techniques such as stock price forecasting, technical analysis, analysts consensus, earnings estimates, and various momentum models.

Prediction based on Rule 16 of the current Carters contract

Based on the Rule 16, the options market is currently suggesting that Carters will have an average daily up or down price movement of about 0.0369% per day over the life of the 2025-10-17 option contract. With Carters trading at USD 26.07, that is roughly USD 0.009613 . If you think that the market is fully incorporating Carters' daily price movement you should consider acquiring Carters options at the current volatility level of 0.59%. But if you have an opposite viewpoint you should avoid it and even consider selling them.
Check out Carters Basic Forecasting Models to cross-verify your projections.
For more detail on how to invest in Carters Stock please use our How to Invest in Carters guide.
Intrinsic
Valuation
LowRealHigh
20.3124.2828.25
Details
Naive
Forecast
LowNextHigh
24.8128.7832.75
Details
6 Analysts
Consensus
LowTargetHigh
26.3929.0032.19
Details
Earnings
Estimates (0)
LowProjected EPSHigh
0.710.760.78
Details

Carters After-Hype Price Prediction Density Analysis

As far as predicting the price of Carters at your current risk attitude, this probability distribution graph shows the chance that the prediction will fall between or within a specific range. We use this chart to confirm that your returns on investing in Carters or, for that matter, your successful expectations of its future price, cannot be replicated consistently. Please note, a large amount of money has been lost over the years by many investors who confused the symmetrical distributions of Stock prices, such as prices of Carters, with the unreliable approximations that try to describe financial returns.
   Next price density   
       Expected price to next headline  

Carters Estimiated After-Hype Price Volatility

In the context of predicting Carters' stock value on the day after the next significant headline, we show statistically significant boundaries of downside and upside scenarios based on Carters' historical news coverage. Carters' after-hype downside and upside margins for the prediction period are 22.30 and 30.24, respectively. We have considered Carters' daily market price in relation to the headlines to evaluate this method's predictive performance. Remember, however, there is no scientific proof or empirical evidence that news-based prediction models outperform traditional linear, nonlinear models or artificial intelligence models to provide accurate predictions consistently.
Current Value
26.07
26.27
After-hype Price
30.24
Upside
Carters is not too volatile at this time. Analysis and calculation of next after-hype price of Carters is based on 3 months time horizon.

Carters Stock Price Prediction Analysis

Have you ever been surprised when a price of a Company such as Carters is soaring high without any particular reason? This is usually happening because many institutional investors are aggressively trading Carters backward and forwards among themselves. Have you ever observed a lot of a particular company's price movement is driven by press releases or news about the company that has nothing to do with actual earnings? Usually, hype to individual companies acts as price momentum. If not enough favorable publicity is forthcoming, the Stock price eventually runs out of speed. So, the rule of thumb here is that as long as this news hype has nothing to do with immediate earnings, you should pay more attention to it. If you see this tendency with Carters, there might be something going there, and it might present an excellent short sale opportunity.
Expected ReturnPeriod VolatilityHype ElasticityRelated ElasticityNews DensityRelated DensityExpected Hype
  0.44 
3.97
  0.20 
  0.28 
9 Events / Month
4 Events / Month
In about 9 days
Latest traded priceExpected after-news pricePotential return on next major newsAverage after-hype volatility
26.07
26.27
0.77 
882.22  
Notes

Carters Hype Timeline

On the 16th of August 2025 Carters is traded for 26.07. The entity has historical hype elasticity of 0.2, and average elasticity to hype of competition of -0.28. Carters is projected to increase in value after the next headline, with the price projected to jump to 26.27 or above. The average volatility of media hype impact on the company the price is over 100%. The price growth on the next news is projected to be 0.77%, whereas the daily expected return is currently at -0.44%. The volatility of related hype on Carters is about 630.16%, with the expected price after the next announcement by competition of 25.79. The company reported the last year's revenue of 2.84 B. Total Income to common stockholders was 185.51 M with profit before taxes, overhead, and interest of 1.34 B. Considering the 90-day investment horizon the next projected press release will be in about 9 days.
Check out Carters Basic Forecasting Models to cross-verify your projections.
For more detail on how to invest in Carters Stock please use our How to Invest in Carters guide.

Carters Related Hype Analysis

Having access to credible news sources related to Carters' direct competition is more important than ever and may enhance your ability to predict Carters' future price movements. Getting to know how Carters' peers react to changing market sentiment, related social signals, and mainstream news is a great way to find investing opportunities and time the market. The summary table below summarizes the essential lagging indicators that can help you analyze how Carters may potentially react to the hype associated with one of its peers.

Carters Additional Predictive Modules

Most predictive techniques to examine Carters price help traders to determine how to time the market. We provide a combination of tools to recognize potential entry and exit points for Carters using various technical indicators. When you analyze Carters charts, please remember that the event formation may indicate an entry point for a short seller, and look at other indicators across different periods to confirm that a breakdown or reversion is likely to occur.

About Carters Predictive Indicators

The successful prediction of Carters stock price could yield a significant profit to investors. But is it possible? The efficient-market hypothesis suggests that all published stock prices of traded companies, such as Carters, already reflect all publicly available information. This academic statement is a fundamental principle of many financial and investing theories used today. However, the typical investor usually disagrees with a 'textbook' version of this hypothesis and continually tries to find mispriced stocks to increase returns. We use internally-developed statistical techniques to arrive at the intrinsic value of Carters based on analysis of Carters hews, social hype, general headline patterns, and widely used predictive technical indicators.
We also calculate exposure to Carters's market risk, different technical and fundamental indicators, relevant financial multiples and ratios, and then comparing them to Carters's related companies.
 2016 2022 2023 2025 (projected)
Dividend Yield0.01540.04080.06010.0428
Price To Sales Ratio1.350.90.680.94

Story Coverage note for Carters

The number of cover stories for Carters depends on current market conditions and Carters' risk-adjusted performance over time. The coverage that generates the most noise at a given time depends on the prevailing investment theme that Carters is classified under. However, while its typical story may have numerous social followers, the rapid visibility can also attract short-sellers, who usually are skeptical about Carters' long-term prospects. So, having above-average coverage will typically attract above-average short interest, leading to significant price volatility.

Carters Short Properties

Carters' future price predictability will typically decrease when Carters' long traders begin to feel the short-sellers pressure to drive the price lower. The predictive aspect of Carters often depends not only on the future outlook of the potential Carters' investors but also on the ongoing dynamics between investors with different trading styles. Because the market risk indicators may have small false signals, it is better to identify suitable times to hedge a portfolio using different long/short signals. Carters' indicators that are reflective of the short sentiment are summarized in the table below.
Common Stock Shares Outstanding35.5 M
Cash And Short Term Investments412.9 M

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