Campbell Soup - CPB Stock Forecast, Price & News

10 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Campbell Soup in the last year. There are currently 3 sell ratings and 7 hold ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities 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 targets for Campbell Soup's stock. Their CPB share price forecasts range from $45.00 to $57.00. On average, they predict the company's share price to reach $51.09 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 1.6%.
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Campbell Soup's stock was trading at $56.75 at the start of the year. Since then, CPB shares have decreased by 8.5% and is now trading at $51.90.
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Campbell Soup saw a increase in short interest in December. As of December 15th, there was short interest totaling 16,020,000 shares, an increase of 28.8% from the November 30th total of 12,440,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 2,490,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 6.4 days. Currently, 8.1% of the company's stock are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, March 8th 2023.
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Campbell Soup (NYSE:CPB) released its earnings results on Wednesday, December, 7th. The company reported $1.02 EPS for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $0.86 by $0.16. The business earned $2.58 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $2.44 billion. Campbell Soup had a net margin of 8.91% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 26.43%. Campbell Soup's revenue was up 15.2% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the company earned $0.89 earnings per share.
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Campbell Soup declared a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, November 30th. Investors of record on Thursday, January 5th will be paid a dividend of $0.37 per share on Monday, January 30th. This represents a $1.48 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 2.85%. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, January 4th.
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Campbell Soup (NYSE:CPB) pays an annual dividend of $1.48 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 2.92%. The dividend payout ratio is 56.27%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, CPB will have a dividend payout ratio of 46.84% 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 of Directors has approved a stock repurchase plan on Wednesday, September 1st 2021, which permits the company to buyback $500,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization permits the company to buy up to 3.8% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock buyback plans are generally a sign that the company's management believes its shares are undervalued.

Campbell Soup updated its FY23 earnings guidance on Wednesday, December, 7th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $2.90-3.00 for the period, compared to the consensus EPS estimate of $2.91. The company issued revenue guidance of +7-9% yr/yr to $9.19-9.33 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $9.00 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.

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

Campbell Soup's stock is owned by many different institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Allspring Global Investments Holdings LLC (0.36%), RK Asset Management LLC (0.04%), Manning & Napier Group LLC (0.04%), Meyer Handelman Co. (0.04%), Sicart Associates LLC (0.03%) and Cyndeo Wealth Partners LLC (0.02%). 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 $51.90.

Campbell Soup (NYSE:CPB) has a market capitalization of $15.54 billion and generates $8.90 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $757 million in net income (profit) each year or $2.63 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.