Growth
Hot Topic against its category
The biggest tracked US teen & young adult apparel 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 Q4 = 100.
| # | Chain | YoY share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
A
American Eagle
|
+0.8% |
| 2 |
B
Buckle
|
+1.4% |
| 3 |
H
Hot Topic
|
+8.7% |
| 4 |
H
Hollister Co.
|
-6.2% |
| 5 |
P
PacSun
|
-4.1% |
| 6 |
S
Spencer's
|
-2.6% |
| 7 |
Z
Zumiez
|
-5.0% |
| 8 |
A
Aéropostale
|
+3.3% |
| 9 |
G
Garage
|
- |
| 10 |
T
Tillys
|
+2.4% |
Share of tracked category spend, indexed
Store footprint
Store map
602 tracked Hot Topic locations across 50 US states.
Tracked stores by state
- California 80
- Texas 54
- Florida 36
- Pennsylvania 28
- Ohio 26
- New York 23
- Michigan 20
- Illinois 19
- Virginia 18
- Georgia 16
- New Jersey 16
- Washington 16
- Arizona 15
- Indiana 15
- North Carolina 15
- Colorado 14
- Maryland 12
- Missouri 11
- Minnesota 10
- Tennessee 10
- Wisconsin 9
- Connecticut 8
- Kentucky 8
- Massachusetts 8
- Nevada 8
- Oklahoma 8
- South Carolina 7
- Alabama 6
- Iowa 6
- Kansas 6
- Louisiana 6
- Mississippi 6
- New Mexico 6
- Oregon 6
- Utah 6
- West Virginia 6
- Arkansas 5
- Hawaii 5
- North Dakota 4
- New Hampshire 4
- Alaska 3
- Idaho 3
- Nebraska 3
- Delaware 2
- Maine 2
- Montana 2
- South Dakota 2
- Rhode Island 1
- Vermont 1
- Wyoming 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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