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

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, July 29th. Shareholders of record on Friday, August 30th will be given a dividend of $0.22 per share on Wednesday, September 18th. This represents a $0.88 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 1.78%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, August 29th. View Fortune Brands Home & Security's Dividend History.

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

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

Fortune Brands Home & Security is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, October 24th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Fortune Brands Home & Security.

Fortune Brands Home & Security updated its FY19 earnings guidance on Thursday, August, 1st. The company provided earnings per share 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.

11 brokers have issued 1-year price objectives for Fortune Brands Home & Security's shares. Their forecasts range from $44.00 to $66.00. On average, they anticipate Fortune Brands Home & Security's share price to reach $54.3333 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 9.6% from the stock's current price. 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, 3 hold ratings and 6 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 positive this week, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. InfoTrie identifies positive and negative press coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Fortune Brands Home & Security earned a daily sentiment score of 2.5 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave media stories about the industrial products company a news buzz of 6.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is somewhat likely to have an effect on the stock'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 during the month of July. As of July 31st, there was short interest totalling 3,784,800 shares, a drop of 17.0% from the June 30th total of 4,559,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 1,320,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 2.9 days. Approximately 2.7% of the company's stock are short sold. 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 Vanguard Group Inc. (10.60%), BlackRock Inc. (7.42%), BlackRock Inc. (7.42%), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (6.08%), Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD (5.05%) and Pictet Asset Management Ltd. (2.53%). Company insiders that own Fortune Brands Home & Security stock include A D David Mackay, Brian C Lantz, Christopher J Klein, Danny Luburic, David Randich, E Lee Wyatt 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 Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD, Janus Henderson Group PLC, Janus Henderson Group PLC, Schroder Investment Management Group, M.D. Sass Investors Services Inc., Bank of America Corp DE, Allianz Asset Management GmbH and Invesco Ltd.. 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 bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Putnam Investments LLC, Holocene Advisors LP, Pictet Asset Management Ltd., JPMorgan Chase & Co., Nuveen Asset Management LLC, WINTON GROUP Ltd, Point72 Asset Management L.P. and UBS Group AG. 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, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of FBHS stock can currently be purchased for approximately $49.56.

Fortune Brands Home & Security has a market capitalization of $6.94 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]