Fortune Brands Home & Security, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides home and security products for residential home repair, remodeling, new construction, and security applications. It operates in four segments: Cabinets, Plumbing, Doors, and Security. The Cabinets segment manufactures custom, semi-custom, and stock cabinetry, as well as vanities for the kitchen, bath, and other parts of the home directly to kitchen and bath dealers, home centers, wholesalers, and builders in North America. The Plumbing segment manufactures, assembles, and sells faucets, accessories, kitchen sinks, and waste disposals in the United States, Canada China, Mexico, Southeast Asia, Europe, and South America directly through its own sales force, as well as through independent manufacturers' representatives primarily to wholesalers, home centers, mass merchandisers, and industrial distributors. The Doors segment manufactures and sells fiberglass and steel entry doors to home centers, millwork building products and wholesale distributors, and specialty dealers, as well as to the remodeling and renovation markets in the United States and Canada. The Security segment manufactures and sells key-controlled and combination padlocks, bicycle and cable locks, built-in locker locks, door hardware, automotive locks, trailer and towing locks, electronic access control solutions, and other specialty safety and security devices for consumer use to hardware, home center, and other retail outlets. It also offers lock systems and fire resistant safes to locksmiths, industrial and institutional users, and original equipment manufacturers. This segment sells its products in the United States, Canada, Europe, Central America, Japan, and Australia. The company was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in Deerfield, Illinois.
Industry, Sector and Symbol
Industry General building contractors - residential buildings
Sub-IndustryBuilding Products
SectorIndustrial Products
SymbolNYSE:FBHS
CUSIP34964C10
Phone847-484-4400
Debt
Debt-to-Equity Ratio0.65
Current Ratio1.44
Quick Ratio0.90
Price-To-Earnings
Trailing P/E Ratio18.75
Forward P/E Ratio15.92
P/E Growth1.29
Sales & Book Value
Annual Sales$5.28 billion
Price / Sales1.60
Cash Flow$4.0335 per share
Price / Cash14.33
Book Value$17.14 per share
Price / Book3.37
Profitability
EPS (Most Recent Fiscal Year)$3.08
Net Income$472.60 million
Net Margins8.79%
Return on Equity19.01%
Return on Assets8.84%
Miscellaneous
Employees23,800
Outstanding Shares145,920,000
