Campbell Soup Stock Price, News & Analysis (NYSE:CPB)

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

Campbell Soup declared a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, September 25th. Investors of record on Thursday, October 10th will be paid a dividend of $0.35 per share on Monday, October 28th. This represents a $1.40 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 3.00%. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, October 9th. View Campbell Soup's Dividend History.

Campbell Soup announced that its Board of Directors has initiated a stock repurchase program on Tuesday, December 19th 2017, which permits the company to repurchase shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization permits the company to repurchase shares of its stock through open market purchases. Shares repurchase programs are often an indication that the company's management believes its shares are undervalued.

Campbell Soup (NYSE:CPB) announced its earnings results on Friday, August, 30th. The company reported $0.49 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.41 by $0.08. The business earned $2.02 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.98 billion. Campbell Soup had a net margin of 2.25% and a return on equity of 62.59%. The company's revenue for the quarter was up 1.6% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last year, the company posted $0.25 EPS. View Campbell Soup's Earnings History.

Campbell Soup is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, November 19th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Campbell Soup.

Campbell Soup updated its FY20 earnings guidance on Friday, August, 30th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $2.50-2.55 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus EPS estimate of $2.57.

10 Wall Street analysts have issued 12-month price objectives for Campbell Soup's stock. Their predictions range from $36.00 to $50.00. On average, they expect Campbell Soup's share price to reach $42.20 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 9.5%. View Analyst Price Targets for Campbell Soup.

10 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Campbell Soup in the last year. There are currently 4 sell ratings, 5 hold ratings and 1 buy rating for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Campbell Soup.

Press coverage about CPB stock has trended very negative this week, InfoTrie reports. The research firm rates the sentiment of media coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Campbell Soup earned a media sentiment score of -3.3 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news headlines about the company a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is extremely likely to have an impact on the company's share price in the near future. View News Stories for Campbell Soup.

Campbell Soup saw a decrease in short interest in the month of September. As of September 30th, there was short interest totalling 19,030,000 shares, a decrease of 10.7% from the August 30th total of 21,300,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 2,120,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 9.0 days. Currently, 11.0% of the shares of the company are sold short. View Campbell Soup's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Campbell Soup include Conagra Brands (CAG), Beyond Meat (BYND), Flowers Foods (FLO), Tate & Lyle (TATYY), Nomad Foods (NOMD), Hain Celestial Group (HAIN), Simply Good Foods (SMPL), B&G Foods (BGS), Zivo Bioscience (ZIVO), Amira Nature Foods (ANFI) and TDH (PETZ).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Campbell Soup investors own include AT&T (T), General Electric (GE), Intel (INTC), Exxon Mobil (XOM), Ford Motor (F), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), Verizon Communications (VZ), Pfizer (PFE), Procter & Gamble (PG) and CVS Health (CVS).

Campbell Soup's stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Wealthfront Advisers LLC (0.01%), Pacer Advisors Inc. (0.01%), State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.01%), City Holding Co. (0.01%), Trilogy Capital Inc. (0.01%) and Thomasville National Bank (0.01%). Company insiders that own Campbell Soup stock include Adam G Ciongoli, Carlos Barroso, Edward Carolan, Luca Mignini, Maria Teresa Hilado, Randall W Larrimore, Robert Furbee and Stanley Polomski. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Campbell Soup.

CPB stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including State of Alaska Department of Revenue, Fox Run Management L.L.C., Pennsylvania Trust Co, North Star Investment Management Corp., Crossmark Global Holdings Inc., Berkshire Asset Management LLC PA, NuWave Investment Management LLC and Town & Country Bank & Trust CO dba First Bankers Trust CO. Company insiders that have sold Campbell Soup company stock in the last year include Adam G Ciongoli, Randall W Larrimore, Robert Furbee and Stanley Polomski. View Insider Buying and Selling for Campbell Soup.

CPB stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including XR Securities LLC, Contravisory Investment Management Inc., Pacer Advisors Inc., Wealthfront Advisers LLC, Cypress Capital Group, Thomasville National Bank, City Holding Co. and Trilogy Capital Inc.. Company insiders that have bought Campbell Soup stock in the last two years include 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, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of CPB stock can currently be purchased for approximately $46.61.

Campbell Soup has a market capitalization of $14.04 billion and generates $8.11 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $211 million in net income (profit) each year or $2.30 on an earnings per share basis. Campbell Soup employs 19,000 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Campbell Soup.

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]