Edgewell Personal Care - EPC Stock Forecast, Price & News

6 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Edgewell Personal Care in the last year. There are currently 2 sell ratings, 1 hold rating and 3 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities 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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6 Wall Street research analysts have issued twelve-month price targets for Edgewell Personal Care's stock. Their EPC share price forecasts range from $35.00 to $48.00. On average, they predict the company's stock price to reach $40.80 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 1.4%.
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Edgewell Personal Care's stock was trading at $45.71 at the beginning of the year. Since then, EPC stock has decreased by 9.5% and is now trading at $41.36.
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Edgewell Personal Care saw a drop in short interest during the month of November. As of November 15th, there was short interest totaling 2,830,000 shares, a drop of 8.1% from the October 31st total of 3,080,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 443,500 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 6.4 days. Currently, 5.6% of the company's shares are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, February 14th 2023.
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Edgewell Personal Care Co (NYSE:EPC) announced its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, November, 11th. The company reported $1.01 EPS for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $0.84 by $0.17. The business earned $543.20 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $523.67 million. Edgewell Personal Care had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 9.16% and a net margin of 4.54%. During the same period last year, the business earned $0.59 earnings per share.

Edgewell Personal Care announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, November 3rd. Stockholders of record on Tuesday, November 29th will be given a dividend of $0.15 per share on Wednesday, January 4th. This represents a $0.60 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 1.45%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Monday, November 28th.
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Edgewell Personal Care (NYSE:EPC) pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 1.44%. The dividend payout ratio is 32.61%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, EPC will have a dividend payout ratio of 21.74% 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 FY23 earnings guidance on Thursday, November, 10th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $2.30-2.50 for the period, compared to the consensus earnings per share estimate of $2.56. The company issued revenue guidance of flat to up 2% yr/yr to $2.17-2.22 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $2.18 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 a variety of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include BlackRock Inc. (15.67%), Vanguard Group Inc. (11.66%), Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (6.17%), Banco Santander S.A. (4.39%), State Street Corp (3.89%) and Gamco Investors INC. ET AL (3.17%). Insiders that own company stock include Anne-Sophie Gaget, Carla C Hendra, Eric F O'toole and John N Hill.
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One share of EPC stock can currently be purchased for approximately $41.36.

Edgewell Personal Care (NYSE:EPC) has a market capitalization of $2.13 billion and generates $2.17 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $98.60 million in net income (profit) each year or $1.84 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.