NYSE:CPB - Campbell Soup Stock Price, News, & Analysis

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

Campbell Soup announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, September 26th. Investors of record on Friday, October 12th will be given a dividend of $0.35 per share on Monday, October 29th. This represents a $1.40 annualized dividend and a yield of 3.57%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, October 11th. View Campbell Soup's Dividend History.

Campbell Soup declared that its board has approved a share buyback plan on Tuesday, December 19th 2017, which permits the company to repurchase outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization permits the company to repurchase shares of its stock through open market purchases. Shares repurchase plans are often a sign that the company's board believes its stock is undervalued.

Campbell Soup (NYSE:CPB) posted its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, August, 30th. The company reported $0.25 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.24 by $0.01. The company earned $2.22 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $2.24 billion. Campbell Soup had a net margin of 3.01% and a return on equity of 53.88%. Campbell Soup's quarterly revenue was up 33.4% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the company posted $0.52 EPS. View Campbell Soup's Earnings History.

Campbell Soup is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, November 20th 2018. View Earnings Estimates for Campbell Soup.

Campbell Soup updated its FY19 earnings guidance on Thursday, August, 30th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $2.45-2.53 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus estimate of $2.69. The company issued revenue guidance of $9.975-10.1 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $10.26 billion.

16 equities research analysts have issued 1-year price objectives for Campbell Soup's shares. Their predictions range from $31.00 to $57.00. On average, they anticipate Campbell Soup's share price to reach $39.2857 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 0.3% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Campbell Soup.

16 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Campbell Soup in the last year. There are currently 10 sell ratings, 4 hold ratings and 2 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Campbell Soup.

Press coverage about CPB stock has trended somewhat positive recently, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. The research group rates the sentiment of press coverage by analyzing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Campbell Soup earned a daily sentiment score of 0.6 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned press coverage about the company a news buzz of 7.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is likely to have an effect on the company's share price in the near term.

Campbell Soup saw a decrease in short interest in the month of October. As of October 31st, there was short interest totalling 29,451,462 shares, a decrease of 9.9% from the October 15th total of 32,703,664 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 3,600,548 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 8.2 days. Currently, 17.1% of the company's stock are sold short. View Campbell Soup's Current Options Chain.

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Campbell Soup's stock is owned by a variety of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Third Point LLC (5.99%), BlackRock Inc. (4.78%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (2.09%), Beutel Goodman & Co Ltd. (0.94%), Tobam (0.43%) and LSV Asset Management (0.43%). Company insiders that own Campbell Soup stock include Bennett Dorrance, Carlos Barroso, Charles R Perrin, Edward Carolan, Luca Mignini, Maria Teresa Hilado and Randall W Larrimore. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Campbell Soup.

CPB stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including FMR LLC, LSV Asset Management, AXA, First Trust Advisors LP, Bank of New York Mellon Corp, Bank of Montreal Can, American International Group Inc. and BlackRock Inc.. Company insiders that have sold Campbell Soup company stock in the last year include Carlos Barroso, Edward Carolan and Randall W Larrimore. View Insider Buying and Selling for Campbell Soup.

CPB stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Third Point LLC, Ontario Teachers Pension Plan Board, Symons Capital Management Inc., Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc., Tobam, Manning & Napier Group LLC, Nisa Investment Advisors LLC and Creative Planning. Company insiders that have bought Campbell Soup stock in the last two years include Bennett Dorrance, Luca Mignini and Maria Teresa Hilado. View Insider Buying and Selling for Campbell Soup.

Shares of CPB can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of CPB stock can currently be purchased for approximately $39.17.

Campbell Soup has a market capitalization of $11.72 billion and generates $8.69 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $261 million in net income (profit) each year or $2.87 on an earnings per share basis. Campbell Soup employs 23,000 workers across the globe.

The official website for Campbell Soup is http://www.campbellsoupcompany.com.

Campbell Soup's mailing address is 1 CAMPBELL PL, CAMDEN NJ, 08103. The company can be reached via phone at 856-342-4800 or via email at [email protected]