Church & Dwight (NYSE:CHD) Releases FY 2025 Earnings Guidance

Key Points

• Church & Dwight has issued FY 2025 earnings guidance with earnings per share expected between 3.440-3.510, which is slightly below the analyst consensus estimate of 3.483.
• This quarter, the company reported an EPS of $0.94, surpassing expectations by $0.09, and has announced a quarterly dividend of $0.295 per share.
• Analysts are divided on the stock, with target prices ranging from $83.00 to $108.00, leading to an average price target of $104.38 with an overall rating of "Hold."

Church & Dwight (NYSE:CHD - Get Free Report) issued an update on its FY 2025 earnings guidance on Friday morning. The company provided earnings per share guidance of 3.440-3.510 for the period, compared to the consensus earnings per share estimate of 3.483. The company issued revenue guidance of -. Church & Dwight also updated its Q3 2025 guidance to 0.720-0.720 EPS.

Church & Dwight Stock Up 0.4%

Shares of NYSE:CHD traded up $0.34 during trading on Friday, hitting $94.11. The company's stock had a trading volume of 4,674,657 shares, compared to its average volume of 2,031,294. Church & Dwight has a fifty-two week low of $90.99 and a fifty-two week high of $116.46. The company has a market capitalization of $23.18 billion, a PE ratio of 44.39, a P/E/G ratio of 3.76 and a beta of 0.43. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.48, a quick ratio of 1.43 and a current ratio of 1.95. The business has a 50 day moving average price of $97.26 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $101.73.

Church & Dwight (NYSE:CHD - Get Free Report) last released its quarterly earnings results on Friday, August 1st. The company reported $0.94 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $0.85 by $0.09. The firm had revenue of $1.51 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.48 billion. Church & Dwight had a return on equity of 19.28% and a net margin of 9.52%. The business's revenue was down .3% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the company posted $0.93 earnings per share. As a group, research analysts expect that Church & Dwight will post 3.7 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Church & Dwight Dividend Announcement

The business also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Tuesday, September 2nd. Stockholders of record on Friday, August 15th will be issued a $0.295 dividend. This represents a $1.18 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 1.3%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, August 15th. Church & Dwight's payout ratio is 50.64%.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

CHD has been the topic of a number of recent research reports. Bank of America upgraded shares of Church & Dwight from a "neutral" rating to a "buy" rating and upped their target price for the company from $112.00 to $125.00 in a report on Tuesday, April 15th. Evercore ISI cut their target price on Church & Dwight from $106.00 to $102.00 and set an "in-line" rating on the stock in a research note on Friday, May 2nd. Barclays cut their price target on shares of Church & Dwight from $94.00 to $84.00 and set an "underweight" rating on the stock in a report on Friday, May 2nd. Rothschild & Co Redburn lowered shares of Church & Dwight from a "neutral" rating to a "sell" rating and set a $83.00 price target on the stock. in a research note on Monday, July 14th. Finally, Morgan Stanley lowered their price objective on shares of Church & Dwight from $110.00 to $100.00 and set an "equal weight" rating on the stock in a research note on Monday, May 5th. Four equities research analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, seven have assigned a hold rating and seven have assigned a buy rating to the company's stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the company has an average rating of "Hold" and an average price target of $104.38.

Insiders Place Their Bets

In other Church & Dwight news, Director Penry W. Price sold 14,660 shares of the business's stock in a transaction dated Thursday, May 8th. The shares were sold at an average price of $93.13, for a total value of $1,365,285.80. Following the completion of the transaction, the director directly owned 27,043 shares of the company's stock, valued at approximately $2,518,514.59. The trade was a 35.15% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is accessible through this hyperlink. Also, Director Ravichandra Krishnamu Saligram sold 14,660 shares of the business's stock in a transaction that occurred on Friday, May 30th. The stock was sold at an average price of $99.00, for a total transaction of $1,451,340.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the director owned 13,747 shares of the company's stock, valued at $1,360,953. This trade represents a 51.61% decrease in their position. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Insiders sold 50,575 shares of company stock worth $4,910,586 over the last ninety days. 2.00% of the stock is owned by insiders.

Hedge Funds Weigh In On Church & Dwight

An institutional investor recently raised its position in Church & Dwight stock. MIRAE ASSET GLOBAL ETFS HOLDINGS Ltd. increased its stake in shares of Church & Dwight Co., Inc. (NYSE:CHD - Free Report) by 4.1% during the first quarter, according to the company in its most recent disclosure with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The firm owned 24,274 shares of the company's stock after acquiring an additional 945 shares during the period. MIRAE ASSET GLOBAL ETFS HOLDINGS Ltd.'s holdings in Church & Dwight were worth $2,672,000 as of its most recent SEC filing. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 86.60% of the company's stock.

About Church & Dwight

Church & Dwight Co, Inc engages in the development, manufacture, and marketing of household, personal care, and specialty products. It operates through the following segments: Consumer Domestic, Consumer International, Specialty Products Division (SPD), and Corporate. The Consumer Domestic segment offers household products, such as laundry detergents, fabric softener sheets, cat litter, household cleaning products, and personal care products including antiperspirants, oral care products, depilatories, reproductive health products, oral analgesics, nasal saline moisturizers, and dietary supplements.