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, June 27th. Shareholders of record on Friday, July 13th will be given a dividend of $0.35 per share on Monday, July 30th. This represents a $1.40 annualized dividend and a yield of 3.33%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, July 12th. View Campbell Soup's Dividend History.

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

Campbell Soup (NYSE:CPB) issued its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, November, 21st. The company reported $0.92 earnings per share for the quarter, missing the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.97 by $0.05. The business had revenue of $2.16 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $2.17 billion. Campbell Soup had a return on equity of 56.59% and a net margin of 5.97%. The firm's revenue for the quarter was down 1.9% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the company posted $1.00 EPS. View Campbell Soup's Earnings History.

Campbell Soup is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, August, 30th 2018. View Earnings Estimates for Campbell Soup.

15 analysts have issued 12 month price targets for Campbell Soup's stock. Their forecasts range from $31.00 to $57.00. On average, they anticipate Campbell Soup's stock price to reach $40.3846 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 3.9%. View Analyst Price Targets for Campbell Soup.

15 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Campbell Soup in the last year. There are currently 9 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.

Campbell Soup saw a drop in short interest in the month of July. As of July 31st, there was short interest totalling 33,798,504 shares, a drop of 12.0% from the July 13th total of 38,408,955 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 2,877,226 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 11.7 days. Approximately 19.6% of the company's shares are sold short. View Campbell Soup's Current Options Chain.

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Headlines about CPB stock have trended somewhat positive recently, according to Accern Sentiment. Accern rates the sentiment of news coverage by monitoring more than twenty million news and blog sources. Accern ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative one to one, with scores closest to one being the most favorable. Campbell Soup earned a coverage optimism score of 0.11 on Accern's scale. They also assigned news stories about the company an impact score of 46.87 out of 100, indicating that recent news coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the next several days. View Recent Headlines for Campbell Soup.

Campbell Soup's stock is owned by a number of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include BlackRock Inc. (4.85%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (2.25%), Morgan Stanley (1.90%), Brandywine Managers LLC (1.87%), Third Point LLC (1.85%) and Schroder Investment Management Group (1.39%). Company insiders that own Campbell Soup stock include Bennett Dorrance, Carlos Barroso, Charles R Perrin, Edward Carolan, Jeff Dunn, Luca Mignini, Maria Teresa Hilado, Randall W Larrimore and William J O'shea. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Campbell Soup.

CPB stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Bank of New York Mellon Corp, State of Wisconsin Investment Board, Martingale Asset Management L P, Manning & Napier Group LLC, Schroder Investment Management Group, BB&T Securities LLC, Pinebridge Investments L.P. and ING Groep NV. Company insiders that have sold Campbell Soup company stock in the last year include Carlos Barroso, Charles R Perrin, Edward Carolan and Randall W Larrimore. View Insider Buying and Selling for Campbell Soup.

CPB stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Third Point LLC, Morgan Stanley, Brandywine Managers LLC, Bank of Montreal Can, Glenmede Trust Co. NA, Wedge Capital Management L L P NC, Van ECK Associates Corp and Beutel Goodman & Co Ltd.. 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 $42.04.

Campbell Soup has a market capitalization of $12.43 billion and generates $7.89 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $887 million in net income (profit) each year or $3.04 on an earnings per share basis. Campbell Soup employs 18,000 workers across the globe.

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]