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 announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, December 12th. Shareholders 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 yield of 1.38%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, February 27th. This is a boost 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 authorized a share buyback 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 stock through open market purchases. Stock buyback programs are typically a sign that the company's leadership believes its stock is undervalued.

Fortune Brands Home & Security Inc (NYSE:FBHS) issued its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, October, 23rd. The industrial products company reported $0.95 earnings per share for the quarter, missing the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.97 by $0.02. The industrial products company earned $1.46 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $1.49 billion. Fortune Brands Home & Security had a return on equity of 21.55% and a net margin of 7.23%. Fortune Brands Home & Security's quarterly revenue was up 5.7% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business earned $0.93 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, January 29th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Fortune Brands Home & Security.

Fortune Brands Home & Security will be holding an earnings conference call on Wednesday, January 29th at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

11 Wall Street analysts have issued 12-month target prices for Fortune Brands Home & Security's shares. Their forecasts range from $50.00 to $76.00. On average, they expect Fortune Brands Home & Security's share price to reach $66.70 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 4.0%. 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 2 sell ratings, 4 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 coverage about FBHS stock has been trending very negative this week, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. InfoTrie identifies negative and positive news coverage by analyzing more than six thousand blog and news sources. 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 coverage optimism score of -3.7 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned headlines about the industrial products company a news buzz of 2.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is very unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the near term. View News Stories for Fortune Brands Home & Security.

Fortune Brands Home & Security saw a drop in short interest in December. As of December 13th, there was short interest totalling 2,190,000 shares, a drop of 12.7% from the November 28th total of 2,510,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 1,270,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 1.7 days. Approximately 1.6% of the shares of the 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 shareholders include Artemis Investment Management LLP (0.49%), Fenimore Asset Management Inc. (0.31%), PGGM Investments (0.27%), Arvest Bank Trust Division (0.23%), Assenagon Asset Management S.A. (0.18%) and New York State Teachers Retirement System (0.15%). 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 PGGM Investments, Zurcher Kantonalbank Zurich Cantonalbank , Meag Munich Ergo Kapitalanlagegesellschaft MBH, Arvest Bank Trust Division, Calamos Advisors LLC, Gradient Investments LLC, Private Trust Co. NA and American Research & Management Co.. 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 acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Assenagon Asset Management S.A., Artemis Investment Management LLP, CHURCHILL MANAGEMENT Corp, Fenimore Asset Management Inc., Strs Ohio, First Hawaiian Bank, DNB Asset Management AS and State of Alaska Department of Revenue. 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 $69.51.

Fortune Brands Home & Security has a market capitalization of $9.67 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]