Trends · data through September 2026

Teen & Young Adult Apparel in the United States

Iceflower tracks 5,138 stores from 28 teen & young adult apparel chains in the United States. Hurley grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Malibu Shirts and Justice.

Rankings come from real card and bank transactions across a panel of 130M+ US and EU consumers. We publish relative growth and rankings, never revenue figures. About the data

Tracked chains
28
Tracked stores
5,138
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked teen & young adult apparel chains

Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. Hurley and Malibu Shirts sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 H Hurley logo Hurley ▲1 +13.5%
2 M Malibu Shirts - +11.6%
3 J Justice logo Justice ▲3 +11.1%
4 H Hot Topic logo Hot Topic ▲2 +8.7%
5 A Aéropostale logo Aéropostale - +3.3%
6 T Tillys logo Tillys - +2.4%
7 B Buckle logo Buckle - +1.4%
8 A Abercrombie & Fitch logo Abercrombie & Fitch ▲1 +1.4%
9 A American Eagle logo American Eagle - +0.8%
10 S Spencer's logo Spencer's - -2.6%
11 P PacSun logo PacSun ▼1 -4.1%
12 Z Zumiez logo Zumiez - -5.0%
13 H Hollister Co. logo Hollister Co. ▼1 -6.2%
14 C Coastal Edge logo Coastal Edge - -7.0%
15 C Cotton On logo Cotton On ▲1 -11.1%
  • American Eagle
  • Buckle
  • Hot Topic
  • Hollister Co.
  • PacSun
  • Spencer's
  • Zumiez
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

5,138 tracked store locations in the United States. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • American Eagle (750)
  • Buckle (451)
  • Hot Topic (602)
  • Hollister Co. (283)
  • PacSun (314)
  • Spencer's (657)
  • Zumiez (554)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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