Church & Dwight - CHD Stock Forecast, Price & News

18 Wall Street equities 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 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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18 brokers have issued 12-month target prices for Church & Dwight's stock. Their CHD share price forecasts range from $73.00 to $100.00. On average, they expect the company's share price to reach $87.88 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 1.2% from the stock's current price.
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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 7.7% and is now trading at $86.84.
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Church & Dwight saw a increase in short interest in March. As of March 15th, there was short interest totaling 4,460,000 shares, an increase of 26.7% from the February 28th total of 3,520,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 1,330,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 3.4 days. Currently, 1.8% of the company's shares are sold short.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, April 27th 2023.
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Church & Dwight Co., Inc. (NYSE:CHD) posted its quarterly earnings data on Friday, February, 3rd. The company reported $0.62 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.60 by $0.02. The business had revenue of $1.44 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $1.40 billion. Church & Dwight had a net margin of 7.70% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 20.70%. The business's revenue was up 4.9% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the business posted $0.64 earnings per share.
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Church & Dwight declared a quarterly dividend on Friday, February 3rd. Stockholders of record on Wednesday, February 15th will be paid a dividend of $0.2725 per share on Wednesday, March 1st. This represents a $1.09 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 1.26%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Tuesday, February 14th. 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 $1.09 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 1.27%. 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 64.88%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, CHD will have a dividend payout ratio of 32.63% 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 on the morning of 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 authorizes the company to buyback $1,000,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization authorizes 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 board of directors believes its stock is undervalued.

Church & Dwight issued an update on its FY 2023 earnings guidance on Friday, February, 3rd. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $2.97-$3.09 for the period, compared to the consensus earnings per share 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 variety of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Fundsmith LLP (3.46%), Moneta Group Investment Advisors LLC (2.74%), Allspring Global Investments Holdings LLC (2.13%), Geode Capital Management LLC (2.12%), Neuberger Berman Group LLC (1.39%) and Morgan Stanley (1.29%). 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 $86.84.

Church & Dwight (NYSE:CHD) has a market capitalization of $21.19 billion and generates $5.38 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $413.90 million in net income (profit) each year or $1.68 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.