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 equities research analysts have issued 1 year price targets for Edgewell Personal Care's stock. Their EPC share price forecasts range from $35.00 to $53.00. On average, they predict the company's stock price to reach $44.71 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 12.0% from the stock's current price.
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Edgewell Personal Care's stock was trading at $38.54 at the beginning of 2023. Since then, EPC shares have increased by 3.6% and is now trading at $39.93.
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Edgewell Personal Care saw a increase in short interest in 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 daily volume of 381,700 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 8.0 days. Currently, 6.0% of the company's stock are short sold.
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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) announced its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, May, 9th. The company reported $0.56 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.35 by $0.21. The business earned $598.40 million during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations 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 company's revenue for the quarter was up 9.3% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the firm earned $0.50 earnings per share.

Edgewell Personal Care announced a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, May 9th. Shareholders of record on Wednesday, June 7th will be paid a dividend of $0.15 per share on Thursday, July 6th. This represents a $0.60 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.50%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend 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 1.46%. 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 issued an update on its FY 2023 earnings guidance on Tuesday, May, 9th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $2.30-$2.50 for the period, compared to the consensus 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.

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

Edgewell Personal Care's stock is owned by many different retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders 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 $39.93.

Edgewell Personal Care (NYSE:EPC) has a market capitalization of $2.04 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.