Campbell Soup (CPB) Stock Forecast, Price & News

10 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Campbell Soup in the last twelve months. There are currently 2 sell ratings and 8 hold ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "hold" CPB shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in CPB, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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10 analysts have issued 1 year price objectives for Campbell Soup's stock. Their CPB share price forecasts range from $45.00 to $57.00. On average, they predict the company's stock price to reach $51.92 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 12.6% from the stock's current price.
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Campbell Soup's stock was trading at $56.75 at the beginning of the year. Since then, CPB shares have decreased by 18.8% and is now trading at $46.09.
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Campbell Soup (NYSE:CPB) issued its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, June, 7th. The company reported $0.68 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.65 by $0.03. The firm had revenue of $2.23 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $2.23 billion. Campbell Soup had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 26.97% and a net margin of 8.86%. The firm's revenue was up 4.6% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company earned $0.70 earnings per share.
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Campbell Soup announced a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, May 23rd. Stockholders of record on Thursday, July 6th will be paid a dividend of $0.37 per share on Monday, July 31st. This represents a $1.48 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 3.21%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, July 5th.
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ETFs with the largest weight of Campbell Soup (NYSE:CPB) stock in their portfolio include Timothy Plan Market Neutral ETF (TPMN), First Trust Nasdaq Food & Beverage ETF (FTXG), Invesco Dynamic Food & Beverage ETF (PBJ), Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight Consumer Staples ETF (RHS), ASYMmetric Smart S&P 500 ETF (ASPY), Strategas Macro Thematic Opportunities ETF (SAMT), First Trust Consumer Staples AlphaDEX Fund (FXG) and Global X S&P 500 Quality Dividend ETF (QDIV).

Campbell Soup (NYSE:CPB) pays an annual dividend of $1.48 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 2.93%. The dividend payout ratio is 54.82%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, CPB will have a dividend payout ratio of 46.54% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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Campbell Soup declared that its board has authorized a share repurchase program on Wednesday, September 1st 2021, which permits the company to repurchase $500,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization permits the company to reacquire up to 3.8% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares repurchase programs are typically an indication that the company's management believes its shares are undervalued.

Campbell Soup issued an update on its FY 2023 earnings guidance on Wednesday, June, 7th. The company provided EPS guidance of $2.95-$3.00 for the period, compared to the consensus estimate of $3.01. The company issued revenue guidance of $9.29 billion-$9.42 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $9.37 billion.

94 employees have rated Campbell Soup Chief Executive Officer Mark Clouse on Glassdoor.com. Mark Clouse has an approval rating of 87% among the company's employees.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Campbell Soup investors own include AT&T (T), Intel (INTC), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), Pfizer (PFE), Cisco Systems (CSCO), CVS Health (CVS), Verizon Communications (VZ), General Electric (GE), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) and Procter & Gamble (PG).

Campbell Soup trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "CPB."

Campbell Soup's stock is owned by a variety of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include BlackRock Inc. (5.90%), State Street Corp (3.55%), Geode Capital Management LLC (1.46%), Renaissance Technologies LLC (1.18%), First Trust Advisors LP (0.77%) and Envestnet Asset Management Inc. (0.77%). Insiders that own company stock include Adam G Ciongoli, Anthony Sanzio, Craig Slavtcheff and Stanley Polomski.
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Shares of CPB 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 CPB stock can currently be purchased for approximately $46.09.

Campbell Soup (NYSE:CPB) has a market capitalization of $13.80 billion and generates $8.56 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $757 million in net income (profit) each year or $2.70 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 14,700 workers across the globe.

Campbell Soup's mailing address is 1 CAMPBELL PL, CAMDEN NJ, 08103. The official website for the company is www.campbellsoupcompany.com. The company can be reached via phone at (856) 342-4800, via email at ken_gosnell@campbellsoup.com, or via fax at 856-342-3878.