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J. C. Penney

American department store chain
Organization department_store_chain Q920037

Facts

16 properties

Identity

Instance of
department store chain, business, public company, organization[2][3][4]
Official website
www.jcpenney.com[13]
Legal form
Delaware corporation[15]

Status and dates

Inception
1902[11]

Location

Headquarters location
Plano[7]
Country
United States[1]

Industry and activity

Industry
retail[10]

People

Founder
James Cash Penney, William McManus[5][6]
Chief executive officer
Marvin Ellison[8]
Director / manager
Ron Johnson[14]
More facts +6
Image harvest run
pdhero-20261109T032439Z
Image last checked license
CC BY-SA 3.0
Image unavailable reason
no_pd_license
Significant event
bankruptcy[12]
Social media followers
426k (426k–474k, n=4)[16][17][18][19]
Stock exchange
New York Stock Exchange[9]
🏷️ Also known as
en Penney's en Penny Co. en JCP en J. C. Penney en J.C. Penney en JCPenney en J.C. Penney Co. en J. C. Penney Co., Inc. en J. C. Penney Company Inc. en J. C. Penney Company, Inc. de JCPenney de J. C. Penney Company, Inc. fa جی سی پنی fr JCPenney it JCPenney ja J.C.ペニー ko J. C. 페니 zh 杰西潘尼
🔖 Identifiers · 35
ROR ID
01h30nm18
ISNI
0000000404385833
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 0000000404385833 GND (DNB) 0000 0001 0700 3464 edition 2026-09-30 · CC0 1.0 ↗
Legal Entity Identifier
5493001C62ZLWJXL4D02
VIAF cluster ID
265719216
Library of Congress Authorities ID
n50010794
GND ID
1087045096
GRID ID
grid.467428.b
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
JC Penney store, Aventura Mall (Aventura, Florida, 2006).jpg ↗
Central Index Key
0001166126
Comparably company ID
j-c-penney
Crunchbase organization ID
jcpenney-com
Described at URL
www.fundinguniverse.com
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Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
topic/JC-Penney-Corporation-Inc
Facebook username
jcp
Freebase ID
/m/026h1w
HAND ID
C3D5-B9D5-EE4B-8416-4D56
ISIN
US7081601061
Instagram username
jcpenney
J9U entity ID
987007322047105171
Libraries Australia ID
36093632
Location information URL
www.stores.jcpenney.com, www.jcpenney.com
Museum of Modern Art artist ID
41965
NDL Authority ID
00629202
OSM Name Suggestion Index ID
jcpenneyoptical-5b6831, jcpenney-592fe0
Open Funder Registry funder ID
100004766
PermID
4295904712
Philadelphia Museum of Art entity ID
42761
Pinterest username
jcpenney
Quora topic ID
JCPenney-1
Scilit organization ID
57887
Threads username
jcpenney
Topic's main category
Category:JCPenney
Vintage Fashion Guild label
penney-jc
X (Twitter) username
jcpenney
Yale LUX ID
group/703357cb-d2fc-4adf-9e6d-f91e2318fe26
📚 Sources · 1
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📈 SEC EDGAR
None Public · NYSE/NASDAQ
CIK 0001166126
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OpenAlex
Edition
20260927 · as of 2026-09-27
Licence
CC0 1.0
Credit
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not in the catalog
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🔗 Connections
Instance of 3
business, organization, public company
Employees / affiliates 2
Ellen DeGeneres, Ken Paxton
Country 1
United States
Director / manager 1
Ron Johnson
Founder 1
James Cash Penney
Headquarters location 1
Plano
Industry 1
retail
Legal form 1
Delaware corporation
Significant event 1
bankruptcy
Stock exchange 1
New York Stock Exchange
← Occupant 1
Roosevelt Field
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Financials

Self-reported XBRL data from 4 annual filings
Revenue
$11.17B
▼ 7.1% YoY FY2020
Net Income
-$268.00M
▼ 5.1% YoY FY2020
Assets
$7.99B
▲ 3.5% YoY FY2020
EPS (diluted)
$-0.84
▼ 3.7% YoY FY2020
$0.00$3.55B$7.10B$10.66B$14.21B FY2017: $12.92B · NI -$17.00M (-0.1% margin)FY2018: $12.87B · NI -$118.00M (-0.9% margin)FY2019: $12.02B · NI -$255.00M (-2.1% margin)FY2020: $11.17B · NI -$268.00M (-2.4% margin) '17'18'19'20
■ Revenue ■ Net Income
Source: SEC EDGAR · latest 10-K filed 2020-02-01 · accession 0001166126-20-000022

Related Entities

business Ellen DeGeneres New York Stock Exchange organization public company United States

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  12. [12] ↑ . edition.cnn.com. Retrieved . edition.cnn.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  15. [15] ↑ . Global LEI Index. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 22h ago · UKChris-wiki · 2026-11-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    "Added reference: OSM Name Suggestion Index ID: jcpenney-592fe0, Updated name-suggestion-index related claims, see https://nsi.guide for project details."
  2. 2d ago · Eihel · 2026-11-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    OSM Name Suggestion Index ID → jcpenneyoptical-5b6831, jcpenney-592fe0
    "Changed the item: QuickStatements 3.0 batch #64283"
  3. 11w ago · Trivialist · 2026-08-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Stock exchange → New York Stock Exchange
    Country → United States
    Logo image → JCPenney logo.svg, JCPenney logo (2019).svg, J. C. Penney Old Logo.svg
    Significant event → bankruptcy
    + 13 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Created claim: HAND ID: C3D5-B9D5-EE4B-8416-4D56, batch #269254"
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