Church & Dwight - CHD Stock Forecast, Price & News

16 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Church & Dwight in the last twelve months. There are currently 5 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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16 Wall Street analysts have issued 1-year target prices for Church & Dwight's shares. Their CHD share price forecasts range from $73.00 to $100.00. On average, they anticipate the company's share price to reach $88.93 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 22.6% 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 stock has decreased by 29.3% and is now trading at $72.51.
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Church & Dwight saw a increase in short interest in September. As of September 15th, there was short interest totaling 4,160,000 shares, an increase of 18.9% from the August 31st total of 3,500,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 1,510,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 2.8 days. Currently, 1.7% 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, October 28th 2022.
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Church & Dwight will be holding an earnings conference call on Friday, October 28th at 10:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link.

Church & Dwight Co., Inc. (NYSE:CHD) issued its earnings results on Friday, July, 29th. The company reported $0.76 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.71 by $0.05. The firm 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%. The business's quarterly revenue was up 4.2% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the business posted $0.76 EPS.
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Church & Dwight announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, July 27th. Stockholders 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 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 1.45%. 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 1.43%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 26 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 32.51% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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Church & Dwight shares split before market open on Friday, September 2nd 2016. The 2-1 split was announced on Thursday, August 4th 2016. The newly created shares were distributed to shareholders after the market closes 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 stock repurchase plan on Friday, October 29th 2021, which allows the company to repurchase $1,000,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization allows the company to repurchase up to 4.6% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase plans are usually a sign that the company's management believes its shares are undervalued.

Church & Dwight updated its third quarter 2022 earnings guidance on Wednesday, October, 5th. The company provided EPS guidance of $0.65-$0.65 for the period, compared to the consensus EPS estimate of $0.66. The company issued revenue guidance of $1.30 billion-$1.30 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $1.35 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 Keel Point LLC (0.02%), Burns J W & Co. Inc. NY (0.01%), First Hawaiian Bank (0.01%), First Financial Bank Trust Division (0.00%) and LVM Capital Management Ltd. MI (0.00%). 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, Robert K Shearer, Steven J Katz and Steven P Cugine.
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One share of CHD stock can currently be purchased for approximately $72.51.

Church & Dwight (NYSE:CHD) has a market capitalization of $17.61 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'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.