Church & Dwight - CHD Stock Forecast, Price & News

15 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Church & Dwight in the last year. There are currently 4 sell ratings, 7 hold ratings and 4 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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15 brokerages have issued twelve-month price objectives for Church & Dwight's shares. Their CHD share price forecasts range from $76.00 to $118.00. On average, they predict the company's stock price to reach $94.79 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 8.1% from the stock's current price.
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Church & Dwight's stock was trading at $102.50 at the beginning of the year. Since then, CHD shares have decreased by 14.4% and is now trading at $87.70.
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Church & Dwight saw a increase in short interest during the month of July. As of July 31st, there was short interest totaling 4,730,000 shares, an increase of 14.0% from the July 15th total of 4,150,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 1,480,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 3.2 days. Currently, 2.0% of the company's shares are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Friday, November 4th 2022.
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Church & Dwight Co., Inc. (NYSE:CHD) announced its earnings results on Friday, July, 29th. The company reported $0.76 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.72 by $0.04. The company earned $1.33 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.34 billion. Church & Dwight had a net margin of 14.71% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 21.89%. Church & Dwight's quarterly revenue was up 4.2% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm earned $0.76 earnings per share.
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Church & Dwight declared a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, July 27th. Shareholders of record on Monday, August 15th will be paid a dividend of $0.2625 per share on Thursday, September 1st. This represents a $1.05 annualized dividend and a yield of 1.20%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, August 12th.
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Church & Dwight (NYSE:CHD) pays an annual dividend of $1.05 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 1.20%. 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 33.33%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, CHD will have a dividend payout ratio of 32.11% 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 announced that its Board of Directors has approved a share buyback program on Friday, October 29th 2021, which permits the company to buyback $1,000,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization permits the company to buy up to 4.6% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock buyback programs are typically an indication that the company's management believes its stock is undervalued.

Church & Dwight updated its third quarter 2022 earnings guidance on Friday, August, 5th. The company provided EPS guidance of $0.65-$0.65 for the period, compared to the consensus estimate of $0.86. The company issued revenue guidance of $1.34 billion-$1.36 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $1.41 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 many different institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Allspring Global Investments Holdings LLC (1.65%), WCM Investment Management LLC (1.64%), Northern Trust Corp (1.20%), Bank Julius Baer & Co. Ltd Zurich (0.92%), California Public Employees Retirement System (0.75%) and ProShare Advisors LLC (0.69%). Insiders that own company stock include Arthur B Winkleblack, Barry A Bruno, Bradley C Irwin, Britta Bomhard, James Craigie, Janet S Vergis, Judy A Zagorski, Matthew Farrell, Maynadier Patrick D De, Paul Richard Wood, Penry W Price, Ravichandra Krishnamu Saligram, Rene Hemsey, Richard A Dierker, Rick Spann, Robert D Leblanc, 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 $87.70.

Church & Dwight (NYSE:CHD) has a market capitalization of $21.30 billion and generates $5.19 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $827.50 million in net income (profit) each year or $3.15 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 5,100 workers across the globe.

Church & Dwight was founded in 1846.

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.