Carter's sets October 30 date for third-quarter 2026 results
Key Facts
Carter's set Friday, October 30, as the date for announcing its fiscal 2026 third-quarter results before the market opens, according to an investor relations statement. The company said it would discuss the results and provide a business update on a call at 8:30 a.m. Eastern time that day. The upcoming announcement therefore concerns the date results will be released, not results already published. By contrast, the available information does not support describing Franklin Financial as having reported third-quarter results. The company's investor relations page lists its second-quarter earnings release, published on July 24, with no third-quarter release as of the date of research.
Carter's approaches the announcement after forecasting third-quarter net sales of about $750 million, adjusted operating income of about $50 million and adjusted diluted earnings per share of about $0.85, according to its outlook published with second-quarter results. For comparison, the company reported fiscal 2025 third-quarter sales of $758 million, adjusted operating income of $39 million and adjusted diluted earnings per share of $0.74. These figures put forecast sales below the year-earlier period, while expected operating income and earnings per share are above their previous levels. The upcoming results will allow actual performance to be compared with these estimates and the prior third quarter's figures. The company said the management call will also include a business update, alongside a discussion of the results.
In the background to the comparison, Carter's chief executive said fiscal 2025 third-quarter performance reflected continued improvement in demand for its U.S. retail business. The CEO added that the company delivered positive comparable sales and improved pricing for the second consecutive quarter. However, higher product costs, including the impact of tariffs, and additional investments weighed on profitability that quarter. Those remarks provide context for the figures the company will report on October 30, while the available facts contain no more recent details on how those factors affected 2026 results. The management call is scheduled for 8:30 a.m. Eastern time on the announcement date.
For Franklin Financial, its latest published results show net income of $6.6 million, or $1.47 per diluted share, in the second quarter of 2026. The company said net income rose 11.9% from the same period in 2025, when it was $5.9 million, or $1.32 per diluted share. The company's assets totaled $2.335 billion on June 30, 2026, compared with $2.239 billion at the end of 2025, an increase of 4.3%. These figures cover the second quarter and the asset position at the end of June; they are not third-quarter results. The July 24 release is therefore the latest earnings statement shown on the investor relations page in the available information.
Franklin Financial's third-quarter 2025 results provide an additional performance benchmark: net income then was $5.4 million, or $1.19 per diluted share. That was up 26.9% from the third quarter of 2024, which recorded $4.2 million, or $0.95 per diluted share, but down 9.4% from second-quarter 2025 net income of $5.9 million. The comparison shows that year-over-year and quarter-over-quarter performance moved in different directions during that period. The available information includes no newer figures for the third quarter of 2026 to make a similar comparison this time. The date of any new results remains unspecified in the facts provided.
As for distributions, a Franklin Financial disclosure announced a cash dividend payable on November 25, 2026, to shareholders of record at the close of business on November 6. The disclosure concerns a fourth-quarter dividend, not a third-quarter results announcement as the earlier wording of the news report stated. The facts provided do not give the dividend amount, so it cannot be specified here. In trading on October 26, the company's shares closed at $64.1, while Carter's shares closed at $31.81, according to EL7 data. The two prices provide a closing snapshot for that day and do not establish a link between either stock's movement and any Franklin Financial earnings announcement.