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. Investors of record on Friday, July 13th will be paid a dividend of $0.35 per share on Monday, July 30th. This represents a $1.40 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 3.37%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, July 12th. View Campbell Soup's Dividend History.

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

Campbell Soup (NYSE:CPB) issued its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, November, 21st. The company reported $0.92 EPS for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $0.97 by $0.05. The business earned $2.16 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate 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 was down 1.9% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last year, the firm earned $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.

16 brokers have issued 1-year price objectives for Campbell Soup's stock. Their forecasts range from $31.00 to $57.00. On average, they expect Campbell Soup's share price to reach $40.50 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 2.6%. 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 9 sell ratings, 5 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 decline in short interest in July. As of July 31st, there was short interest totalling 33,798,504 shares, a decline 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 currently 11.7 days. Approximately 19.6% of the shares of the company are short sold. View Campbell Soup's Current Options Chain.

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Media coverage about CPB stock has been trending somewhat positive this week, Accern Sentiment reports. The research group scores the sentiment of press coverage by analyzing more than 20 million news and blog sources in real time. Accern ranks coverage of companies on a scale of -1 to 1, with scores closest to one being the most favorable. Campbell Soup earned a media and rumor sentiment score of 0.18 on Accern's scale. They also gave press coverage about the company an impact score of 46.38 out of 100, meaning that recent press coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the next few days. View Recent Headlines for Campbell Soup.

Campbell Soup's stock is owned by a number of of institutional and retail 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 acquired 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 $41.59.

Campbell Soup has a market capitalization of $12.64 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]