The Bid & Ask

Quotations, Dispatches, and the Daily Tape

Thursday, August 13, 2026

Subject of the day

CARD.L

Concerning the House

Card Factory plc operates as a specialist retailer of cards, gifts, and celebration essentials in the United Kingdom, South Africa, Republic of Ireland, the United States, and internationally. It operates through four segments: Stores, Digital, Wholesale partnerships, and Printcraft. The company offers greeting cards and gifts through cardfactory stores, cardfactory online, and network of third-party retail partners; and personalised cards and gifts through online retailer, as well as manufacture and sell greeting cards and personalised gifts through its stores and digital businesses. It also provides printers; sells gift bags, tags, wrapping, packaging, and gifts; and operates as a property company. The company offers its products through various retail locations, as well as through its websites, such as cardfactory.co.uk and gettingpersonal.co.uk. Card Factory plc was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Wakefield, the United Kingdom.

United Kingdom · www.cardfactoryinvestors.com

Quotation

$75.40

+0.50 (+0.7%)

52w hi$110.53
52w lo$60.07
Vol531.55K
As ofAug 13
The Verdict

Hold

Our score -0.18

Short-0.29
Medium-0.30
Long+0.28

computed 2026-08-13

By the Numbers

Card Factory plc

Consumer Cyclical · Specialty Retail

Market cap$254.02M
Enterprise value$448.76M
Trailing P/E8.38x
Forward P/E5.29x
EV / EBITDA5.13x
P / S (ttm)0.44x
Profit margin5.4%
Return on equity8.9%
Revenue growth+8.6%
Earnings growth-31.5%
Debt / equity58.81
Risk Metrics
Beta vs SPX0.28
Corr SPX0.12
Annual vol38.6%
Annual ret-17.7%
Sharpe-0.46
Max DD-57.2%

Window: 504 trading days (491 obs)

Layer Breakdown
LayerRawContribution
Fundamental+0.46
Sector+0.01
Technical-0.12
Earnings+0.00
Sentiment+0.00

macro × 1.00 · 2026-08-13

Recent Sessions
DateOpenHighLowCloseVol
Aug 13$74.50$76.70$74.50$75.40531.55K
Aug 12$75.30$75.50$74.50$74.901.04M
Aug 11$75.20$76.90$74.00$74.70714.47K
Aug 10$76.50$76.50$74.50$75.10697.46K
Aug 7$78.00$78.00$75.40$76.30677.28K