Growth
Hot Topic against its category
The biggest tracked US clothing stores chains by card spend, with year-over-year growth of category share. Share means a chain's slice of tracked category spend. It can decline while the chain's own sales grow. The chart tracks Hot Topic's share of the category quarter by quarter, indexed to 2024 Q1 = 100.
| # | Chain | YoY share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
R
Ross Dress for Less
|
+7.6% |
| 2 |
B
Burlington
|
+2.5% |
| 3 |
O
Old Navy
|
0.0% |
| 4 |
A
American Eagle
|
-10.1% |
| 5 |
V
Victoria's Secret
|
+3.7% |
| 6 |
L
lululemon
|
+7.9% |
| 7 |
H
H&M
|
-8.8% |
| 8 |
Z
Zara
|
-0.9% |
| 9 |
M
Men's Wearhouse
|
-2.9% |
| 10 |
D
dd's DISCOUNTS
|
- |
| 16 |
H
Hot Topic
|
+0.9% |
Share of tracked category spend, indexed
Store footprint
Store map
437 tracked Hot Topic locations across 44 US states.
Tracked stores by state
- California 51
- Texas 44
- Florida 31
- Pennsylvania 24
- Ohio 20
- Illinois 16
- Virginia 16
- Michigan 15
- North Carolina 15
- New Jersey 15
- Arizona 14
- Georgia 14
- Indiana 14
- Colorado 13
- New York 13
- Washington 12
- Maryland 11
- Tennessee 9
- Kentucky 7
- Nevada 7
- Alabama 6
- Utah 6
- Wisconsin 6
- Missouri 5
- Oregon 5
- South Carolina 5
- Iowa 4
- Kansas 4
- New Mexico 4
- Oklahoma 4
- Connecticut 3
- Hawaii 3
- Idaho 3
- Alaska 2
- Arkansas 2
- Delaware 2
- Louisiana 2
- Maine 2
- Mississippi 2
- West Virginia 2
- Minnesota 1
- Nebraska 1
- Rhode Island 1
- Vermont 1
Customer overlap
Who shops at Hot Topic
Tracked chains Hot Topic customers also buy from more than a similarly active shopper would, indexed to the strongest overlap (100). From real card transactions.
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