Church & Dwight - CHD Stock Forecast, Price & News

16 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Church & Dwight in the last twelve months. There are currently 4 sell ratings, 5 hold ratings and 7 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities 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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16 equities research analysts have issued 12-month price objectives for Church & Dwight's shares. Their CHD share price forecasts range from $73.00 to $100.00. On average, they expect the company's stock price to reach $88.07 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 8.5% from the stock's current price.
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Church & Dwight's stock was trading at $80.61 on January 1st, 2023. Since then, CHD stock has increased by 0.7% and is now trading at $81.17.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Friday, February 3rd 2023.
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Church & Dwight will be holding an earnings conference call on Friday, February 3rd at 1:00 PM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link.

Church & Dwight Co., Inc. (NYSE:CHD) posted its quarterly earnings results on Friday, February, 3rd. The company reported $0.62 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.60 by $0.02. The company had revenue of $1.44 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $1.40 billion. Church & Dwight had a net margin of 13.88% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 21.23%. The firm's revenue was up 4.9% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the company posted $0.64 EPS.

Church & Dwight announced a quarterly dividend on Friday, February 3rd. Shareholders of record on Wednesday, February 15th will be given a dividend of $0.2725 per share on Wednesday, March 1st. This represents a $1.09 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.34%. This is a positive change from the stock's previous quarterly dividend of $0.26.
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Church & Dwight (NYSE:CHD) pays an annual dividend of $1.05 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 1.29%. 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 35.12%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, CHD will have a dividend payout ratio of 33.98% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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Church & Dwight's stock 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 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 declared that its board has approved a share buyback plan on Friday, October 29th 2021, which allows the company to buyback $1,000,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization allows the company to buy up to 4.6% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares buyback plans are usually a sign that the company's board believes its shares are undervalued.

Church & Dwight updated its FY 2023 earnings guidance on Friday, February, 3rd. The company provided EPS guidance of $2.97-$3.09 for the period, compared to the consensus EPS estimate of $3.09. The company issued revenue guidance of $5.64 billion-$5.75 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $5.60 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 institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Allspring Global Investments Holdings LLC (2.13%), Bank Julius Baer & Co. Ltd Zurich (0.92%), ProShare Advisors LLC (0.92%), Reik & CO. LLC (0.62%), Congress Asset Management Co. MA (0.51%) and Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc. (0.33%). Insiders that own company stock include Arthur B Winkleblack, Barry A Bruno, Bradley C Irwin, Britta Bomhard, James Craigie, Judy A Zagorski, Matthew Farrell, Maynadier Patrick D De, 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 $81.17.

Church & Dwight (NYSE:CHD) has a market capitalization of $19.79 billion and generates $5.19 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $827.50 million in net income (profit) each year or $2.99 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.