Church & Dwight (CHD) Stock Forecast, Price & News

18 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Church & Dwight in the last twelve months. There are currently 3 sell ratings, 9 hold ratings and 6 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research 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 analysts have issued 1-year target prices for Church & Dwight's shares. Their CHD share price forecasts range from $78.00 to $105.00. On average, they anticipate the company's share price to reach $90.63 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 2.0%.
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Church & Dwight's stock was trading at $80.61 at the start of the year. Since then, CHD shares have increased by 14.7% and is now trading at $92.44.
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Church & Dwight saw a drop in short interest in the month of May. As of May 15th, there was short interest totaling 3,110,000 shares, a drop of 19.8% from the April 30th total of 3,880,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 1,380,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 2.3 days. Approximately 1.3% of the shares of the company are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Friday, August 4th 2023.
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Church & Dwight Co., Inc. (NYSE:CHD) posted its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, April, 27th. The company reported $0.85 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.76 by $0.09. The business earned $1.43 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.35 billion. Church & Dwight had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 20.49% and a net margin of 7.49%. The business's revenue was up 10.2% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm posted $0.83 earnings per share.
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Church & Dwight declared a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, April 26th. Stockholders of record on Monday, May 15th will be paid a dividend of $0.2725 per share on Thursday, June 1st. This represents a $1.09 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 1.18%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, May 12th.
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Church & Dwight (NYSE:CHD) pays an annual dividend of $1.09 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 1.16%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 28 consecutive years, indicating the company has a strong committment to maintain and grow its dividend. The dividend payout ratio is 65.27%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, CHD will have a dividend payout ratio of 32.34% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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Shares of Church & Dwight split before market open 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 declared that its board has approved a share buyback plan on Friday, October 29th 2021, which authorizes the company to buyback $1,000,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization authorizes the company to purchase up to 4.6% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares buyback plans are generally a sign that the company's board of directors believes its stock is undervalued.

Church & Dwight issued an update on its FY 2023 earnings guidance on Thursday, April, 27th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $3.03-$3.09 for the period, compared to the consensus earnings per share estimate of $3.06. The company issued revenue guidance of $5.70 billion-$5.75 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $5.69 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 trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "CHD."

Church & Dwight's stock is owned by a number of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include BlackRock Inc. (8.02%), State Street Corp (5.13%), Geode Capital Management LLC (2.16%), Allspring Global Investments Holdings LLC (2.06%), Stifel Financial Corp (1.72%) and Fundsmith Investment Services LTD. (1.34%). 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, Paul Richard Wood, Penry W Price, Ravichandra Krishnamu Saligram, Rene Hemsey, Richard A Dierker, Robert K Shearer, Steven J Katz and Steven P Cugine.
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Shares of CHD stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include WeBull, Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.
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One share of CHD stock can currently be purchased for approximately $92.44.

Church & Dwight (NYSE:CHD) has a market capitalization of $22.58 billion and generates $5.38 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $413.90 million in net income (profit) each year or $1.67 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 5,250 workers across the globe.

Church & Dwight's mailing address is 500 CHARLES EWING BOULEVARD, EWING NJ, 08628. The official website for the company is www.churchdwight.com. The company can be reached via phone at (609) 806-1200, via email at investor.relations@churchdwight.com, or via fax at 800-833-9532.