Fortune Brands Home & Security Stock Price, News & Analysis (NYSE:FBHS)

Fortune Brands Home & Security trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "FBHS."

Fortune Brands Home & Security announced a quarterly dividend on Monday, September 23rd. Stockholders of record on Friday, November 29th will be paid a dividend of $0.22 per share on Wednesday, December 18th. This represents a $0.88 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.51%. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, November 27th. View Fortune Brands Home & Security's Dividend History.

Fortune Brands Home & Security announced that its Board of Directors has initiated a stock buyback program on Monday, April 30th 2018, which authorizes the company to buyback $150,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization authorizes the company to purchase up to 1.8% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock buyback programs are generally an indication that the company's leadership believes its shares are undervalued.

Fortune Brands Home & Security Inc (NYSE:FBHS) released its earnings results on Thursday, August, 1st. The industrial products company reported $1.03 EPS for the quarter, hitting analysts' consensus estimates of $1.03. The industrial products company earned $1.51 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $1.53 billion. Fortune Brands Home & Security had a net margin of 7.22% and a return on equity of 21.81%. Fortune Brands Home & Security's revenue was up 5.5% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the company earned $1.00 earnings per share. View Fortune Brands Home & Security's Earnings History.

Fortune Brands Home & Security is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, October 23rd 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Fortune Brands Home & Security.

Fortune Brands Home & Security will be holding an earnings conference call on Wednesday, October 23rd at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

Fortune Brands Home & Security updated its FY19 earnings guidance on Thursday, August, 1st. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $3.53-3.67 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus estimate of $3.66. The company issued revenue guidance of ~$5.78-5.84 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $5.86 billion.

9 analysts have issued twelve-month target prices for Fortune Brands Home & Security's stock. Their forecasts range from $44.00 to $64.00. On average, they expect Fortune Brands Home & Security's share price to reach $52.88 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 9.5%. View Analyst Price Targets for Fortune Brands Home & Security.

9 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Fortune Brands Home & Security in the last year. There are currently 2 sell ratings, 2 hold ratings and 5 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Fortune Brands Home & Security.

Media stories about FBHS stock have trended somewhat positive on Thursday, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. InfoTrie identifies negative and positive news coverage by reviewing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Fortune Brands Home & Security earned a media sentiment score of 1.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news coverage about the industrial products company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the next few days. View News Stories for Fortune Brands Home & Security.

Fortune Brands Home & Security saw a drop in short interest in September. As of September 15th, there was short interest totalling 2,770,000 shares, a drop of 10.1% from the August 15th total of 3,080,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 1,110,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 2.5 days. Approximately 2.0% of the company's stock are sold short. View Fortune Brands Home & Security's Current Options Chain.

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Fortune Brands Home & Security's stock is owned by a variety of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Douglas Lane & Associates LLC (0.91%), Artemis Investment Management LLP (0.41%), State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.04%), IFG Advisors LLC (0.03%), Gradient Investments LLC (0.03%) and DNB Asset Management AS (0.02%). Company insiders that own Fortune Brands Home & Security stock include A D David Mackay, Brian C Lantz, Christopher J Klein, Danny Luburic, David Randich and Ronald V Waters. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Fortune Brands Home & Security.

FBHS stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Delphi Management Inc. MA, Meeder Asset Management Inc., Cerebellum GP LLC, Crossmark Global Holdings Inc., Cerebellum GP LLC and First Financial Bank Trust Division. Company insiders that have sold Fortune Brands Home & Security company stock in the last year include A D David Mackay, Brian C Lantz, Danny Luburic, David Randich and Ronald V Waters. View Insider Buying and Selling for Fortune Brands Home & Security.

FBHS stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Artemis Investment Management LLP, IFG Advisors LLC, State of Alaska Department of Revenue, Gradient Investments LLC, DNB Asset Management AS, Douglas Lane & Associates LLC, Pacer Advisors Inc. and North Star Investment Management Corp.. View Insider Buying and Selling for Fortune Brands Home & Security.

Shares of FBHS 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, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of FBHS stock can currently be purchased for approximately $58.45.

Fortune Brands Home & Security has a market capitalization of $8.18 billion and generates $5.49 billion in revenue each year. The industrial products company earns $389.60 million in net income (profit) each year or $3.34 on an earnings per share basis. Fortune Brands Home & Security employs 25,300 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Fortune Brands Home & Security.

The official website for Fortune Brands Home & Security is http://www.fbhs.com/.

Fortune Brands Home & Security's mailing address is 520 LAKE COOK ROAD, DEERFIELD IL, 60015. The industrial products company can be reached via phone at 847-484-4400 or via email at [email protected]