Clorox (CLX) Stock Forecast, Price & News

13 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Clorox in the last twelve months. There are currently 7 sell ratings, 5 hold ratings and 1 buy rating for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "hold" CLX shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in CLX, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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13 brokerages have issued 12-month price targets for Clorox's stock. Their CLX share price forecasts range from $124.00 to $185.00. On average, they predict the company's share price to reach $148.54 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 6.3%.
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Clorox's stock was trading at $140.33 at the beginning of the year. Since then, CLX stock has increased by 13.0% and is now trading at $158.58.
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Clorox saw a decrease in short interest during the month of May. As of May 15th, there was short interest totaling 4,310,000 shares, a decrease of 16.8% from the April 30th total of 5,180,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 1,190,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 3.6 days. Currently, 3.5% of the shares of the stock are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, August 2nd 2023.
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The Clorox Company (NYSE:CLX) announced its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, May, 2nd. The company reported $1.51 EPS for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $1.22 by $0.29. The firm earned $1.92 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $1.82 billion. Clorox had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 114.67% and a net margin of 1.03%. The company's revenue was up 5.9% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the business posted $1.31 earnings per share.
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Clorox announced a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, February 14th. Investors of record on Wednesday, April 26th will be paid a dividend of $1.18 per share on Friday, May 12th. This represents a $4.72 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 2.98%. The ex-dividend date is Tuesday, April 25th.
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Clorox (NYSE:CLX) pays an annual dividend of $4.72 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 2.91%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 36 consecutive years, indicating the company has a strong committment to maintain and grow its dividend. The dividend payout ratio is 813.81%. Payout ratios above 75% are not desirable because they may not be sustainable. Based on EPS estimates, CLX will have a dividend payout ratio of 83.99% in the coming year. This indicates that the company may not be able to sustain their current dividend.
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Clorox issued an update on its FY 2023 earnings guidance on Wednesday, May, 3rd. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $4.35-$4.50 for the period, compared to the consensus EPS estimate of $4.30. The company issued revenue guidance of $7.18 billion-$7.25 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $7.12 billion.

17 employees have rated Clorox Chief Executive Officer Linda Rendle on Glassdoor.com. Linda Rendle has an approval rating of 94% among the company's employees. This puts Linda Rendle in the top 30% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

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Clorox trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "CLX."

Clorox's stock is owned by a number of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include BlackRock Inc. (7.65%), State Street Corp (7.08%), Geode Capital Management LLC (2.20%), Stifel Financial Corp (2.09%), FMR LLC (1.51%) and Federated Hermes Inc. (1.15%). Insiders that own company stock include A D David Mackay, Andrew J Mowery, Benno O Dorer, Denise Garner, Diego J Barral, Eric H Reynolds, Kevin B Jacobsen, Laura Stein and William S Bailey.
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Shares of CLX 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 CLX stock can currently be purchased for approximately $158.58.

Clorox (NYSE:CLX) has a market capitalization of $19.60 billion and generates $7.11 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $462 million in net income (profit) each year or $0.58 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 9,000 workers across the globe.

Clorox's mailing address is 1221 BROADWAY, OAKLAND CA, 94612. The official website for the company is www.thecloroxcompany.com. The company can be reached via phone at (510) 271-7000, via email at investorrelations@clorox.com, or via fax at 510-832-1463.