NYSE:FBHS - Fortune Brands Home & Security Stock Price, Forecast & News

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

Fortune Brands Home & Security declared a quarterly dividend on Thursday, December 12th. Stockholders of record on Friday, February 28th will be paid a dividend of $0.24 per share on Wednesday, March 18th. This represents a $0.96 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 1.32%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, February 27th. This is a positive change from Fortune Brands Home & Security's previous quarterly dividend of $0.22. View Fortune Brands Home & Security's Dividend History.

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

Fortune Brands Home & Security Inc (NYSE:FBHS) issued its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, January, 29th. The industrial products company reported $1.00 EPS for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $0.97 by $0.03. The industrial products company had revenue of $1.47 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.49 billion. Fortune Brands Home & Security had a net margin of 7.49% and a return on equity of 21.74%. The company's quarterly revenue was up 3.5% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period last year, the business earned $0.86 EPS. View Fortune Brands Home & Security's Earnings History.

Fortune Brands Home & Security is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, April 22nd 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Fortune Brands Home & Security.

Fortune Brands Home & Security issued an update on its FY20 earnings guidance on Wednesday, January, 29th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $3.83-4.03 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus estimate of $3.95. The company issued revenue guidance of $6.09-6.14 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $6.03 billion.

11 analysts have issued 1-year target prices for Fortune Brands Home & Security's shares. Their forecasts range from $53.00 to $80.00. On average, they anticipate Fortune Brands Home & Security's share price to reach $69.40 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 4.4%. View Analyst Price Targets for Fortune Brands Home & Security.

11 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Fortune Brands Home & Security in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 5 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 been trending positive on Wednesday, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. The research firm identifies positive and negative press coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of 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 2.6 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned press coverage about the industrial products company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the next several days. View News Stories for Fortune Brands Home & Security.

Fortune Brands Home & Security saw a increase in short interest in January. As of January 31st, there was short interest totalling 2,530,000 shares, an increase of 15.5% from the January 15th total of 2,190,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 1,100,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 2.3 days. Approximately 1.8% of the shares of the company 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 number of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include State Street Corp (4.50%), Pictet Asset Management Ltd. (2.74%), FMR LLC (2.74%), Schroder Investment Management Group (1.21%), Eagle Asset Management Inc. (1.20%) and Douglas Lane & Associates LLC (0.89%). Company insiders that own Fortune Brands Home & Security stock include A D David Mackay, Ann F Hackett, 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 Eaton Vance Management, Robecosam AG, Lodge Hill Capital LLC, Bank of New York Mellon Corp, Janus Henderson Group PLC, KBC Group NV, PGGM Investments and Stifel Financial Corp. Company insiders that have sold Fortune Brands Home & Security company stock in the last year include A D David Mackay, Ann F Hackett, Brian C Lantz, Christopher J Klein, Danny Luburic, David Randich and Ronald V Waters. View Insider Buying and Selling for Fortune Brands Home & Security.

FBHS stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including AJO LP, FMR LLC, Bank of Montreal Can, Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA, AQR Capital Management LLC, Pictet Asset Management Ltd., York Capital Management Global Advisors LLC and Assenagon Asset Management S.A.. 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 $72.61.

Fortune Brands Home & Security has a market capitalization of $10.10 billion and generates $5.76 billion in revenue each year. The industrial products company earns $431.90 million in net income (profit) each year or $3.60 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]