Church & Dwight Stock Price, News & Analysis (NYSE:CHD)

18 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Church & Dwight in the last twelve months. There are currently 2 sell ratings, 10 hold ratings and 6 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "hold" CHD shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in CHD, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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18 brokerages have issued 12-month price targets for Church & Dwight's stock. Their CHD share price targets range from $76.00 to $114.00. On average, they predict the company's share price to reach $95.25 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 2.5% from the stock's current price.
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Church & Dwight's stock was trading at $80.61 at the beginning of the year. Since then, CHD stock has increased by 15.3% and is now trading at $92.94.
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Church & Dwight saw a increase in short interest in November. As of November 15th, there was short interest totaling 6,130,000 shares, an increase of 30.7% from the October 31st total of 4,690,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 1,520,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 4.0 days.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Friday, February 2nd 2024.
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Church & Dwight Co., Inc. (NYSE:CHD) issued its earnings results on Friday, November, 3rd. The company reported $0.74 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $0.68 by $0.06. The firm had revenue of $1.46 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.44 billion. Church & Dwight had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 20.55% and a net margin of 7.57%. The business's revenue for the quarter was up 10.5% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the firm earned $0.76 earnings per share.
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Church & Dwight announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, November 1st. Investors of record on Wednesday, November 15th will be paid a dividend of $0.2725 per share on Friday, December 1st. This represents a $1.09 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.17%. The ex-dividend date is Tuesday, November 14th.
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Church & Dwight (NYSE:CHD) pays an annual dividend of $1.09 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 1.14%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 27 consecutive years, indicating the company has a strong committment to maintain and grow its dividend. The dividend payout ratio is 62.29%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, CHD will have a dividend payout ratio of 31.96% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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ETFs with the largest weight of Church & Dwight (NYSE:CHD) stock in their portfolio include BTD Capital Fund (DIP), Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight Consumer Staples ETF (RHS), Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight Consumer Staples ETF (RSPS), Natixis Vaughan Nelson Mid Cap ETF (VNMC), Invesco Zacks Mid-Cap ETF (CZA), Strategas Macro Thematic Opportunities ETF (SAMT), Vanguard U.S. Minimum Volatility ETF (VFMV) and First Trust Consumer Staples AlphaDEX Fund (FXG).

Church & Dwight shares split on Friday, September 2nd 2016. The 2-1 split was announced on Thursday, August 4th 2016. The newly minted shares were issued to shareholders after the closing bell on Thursday, September 1st 2016. An investor that had 100 shares of stock prior to the split would have 200 shares after the split.

Church & Dwight updated its fourth quarter earnings guidance on Friday, November, 3rd. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $0.63 for the period, compared to the consensus earnings per share estimate of $0.72. The company issued revenue guidance of +5% yr/yr to ~$1.51 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $1.52 billion.

98 employees have rated Church & Dwight Chief Executive Officer Matthew Farrell on Glassdoor.com. Matthew Farrell has an approval rating of 97% among the company's employees. This puts Matthew Farrell in the top 30% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

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Church & Dwight's stock is owned by a number of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA (3.33%), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (2.45%), Stifel Financial Corp (1.75%), Allspring Global Investments Holdings LLC (1.56%), Morgan Stanley (1.34%) and Northern Trust Corp (1.17%). Insiders that own company stock include Arthur B Winkleblack, Barry A Bruno, Bradley C Irwin, Britta Bomhard, James Craigie, Matthew Farrell, Maynadier Patrick D De, Michael Read, Paul Richard Wood, Penry W Price, Ravichandra Krishnamu Saligram, Rene Hemsey, Richard A Dierker, Robert K Shearer and Steven P Cugine.
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