Edgewell Personal Care (EPC) Stock Forecast, Price & News

8 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Edgewell Personal Care in the last year. There are currently 2 sell ratings, 2 hold ratings and 4 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "hold" EPC shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in EPC, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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8 brokerages have issued 12-month target prices for Edgewell Personal Care's shares. Their EPC share price forecasts range from $35.00 to $53.00. On average, they expect the company's stock price to reach $44.71 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 5.7% from the stock's current price.
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Edgewell Personal Care's stock was trading at $38.54 at the beginning of the year. Since then, EPC stock has increased by 9.8% and is now trading at $42.30.
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Edgewell Personal Care saw a increase in short interest in the month of April. As of April 30th, there was short interest totaling 3,040,000 shares, an increase of 6.3% from the April 15th total of 2,860,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 381,700 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 8.0 days. Approximately 6.0% of the shares of the company are sold short.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, August 3rd 2023.
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Edgewell Personal Care Co (NYSE:EPC) issued its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, May, 9th. The company reported $0.56 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.35 by $0.21. The firm had revenue of $598.40 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $569.84 million. Edgewell Personal Care had a net margin of 4.27% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 8.93%. The firm's quarterly revenue was up 9.3% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period last year, the company posted $0.50 earnings per share.

Edgewell Personal Care declared a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, May 9th. Stockholders of record on Wednesday, June 7th will be given a dividend of $0.15 per share on Thursday, July 6th. This represents a $0.60 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.42%. The ex-dividend date is Tuesday, June 6th.
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ETFs with the largest weight of Edgewell Personal Care (NYSE:EPC) stock in their portfolio include Invesco S&P SmallCap Consumer Staples ETF (PSCC), Strategas Macro Thematic Opportunities ETF (SAMT), ETC 6 Meridian Low Beta Equity Strategy ETF (SIXL), First Trust Small Cap Value AlphaDEX Fund (FYT), Dimensional US Small Cap Value ETF (DFSV), WisdomTree U.S. SmallCap Quality Dividend Growth Fund (DGRS), Xtrackers S&P SmallCap 600 ESG ETF (SMLE) and SPDR S&P SmallCap 600 ESG ETF (ESIX).

Edgewell Personal Care (NYSE:EPC) pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 1.47%. The dividend payout ratio is 33.15%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, EPC will have a dividend payout ratio of 21.66% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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Edgewell Personal Care updated its FY 2023 earnings guidance on Tuesday, May, 9th. The company provided EPS guidance of $2.30-$2.50 for the period, compared to the consensus earnings per share estimate of $2.41. The company issued revenue guidance of $2.26 billion-$2.26 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $2.23 billion.

35 employees have rated Edgewell Personal Care Chief Executive Officer Rod Little on Glassdoor.com. Rod Little has an approval rating of 83% among the company's employees.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Edgewell Personal Care investors own include Procter & Gamble (PG), CVS Health (CVS), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), Cisco Systems (CSCO), Home Depot (HD), Raytheon Technologies (RTX), Intel (INTC), Verizon Communications (VZ) and Abbott Laboratories (ABT).

Edgewell Personal Care trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "EPC."

Edgewell Personal Care's stock is owned by a number of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include BlackRock Inc. (15.96%), Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (6.86%), American Century Companies Inc. (5.60%), State Street Corp (3.79%), Gamco Investors INC. ET AL (2.32%) and Gabelli Funds LLC (2.06%). Insiders that own company stock include Anne-Sophie Gaget, Carla C Hendra, Eric F O'toole and John N Hill.
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Shares of EPC 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 EPC stock can currently be purchased for approximately $42.30.

Edgewell Personal Care (NYSE:EPC) has a market capitalization of $2.17 billion and generates $2.17 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $98.60 million in net income (profit) each year or $1.81 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 7,000 workers across the globe.

Edgewell Personal Care's mailing address is 6 RESEARCH DRIVE, SHELTON CT, 06484. The official website for the company is www.edgewell.com. The company can be reached via phone at 203-944-5500, via email at chris.gough@edgewell.com, or via fax at 314-985-2000.