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

12 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Fortune Brands Home & Security in the last twelve months. There are currently 1 sell rating, 5 hold ratings and 6 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "hold" FBHS shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in FBHS, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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12 Wall Street research analysts have issued 12 month target prices for Fortune Brands Home & Security's shares. Their FBHS share price forecasts range from $66.00 to $109.00. On average, they predict the company's share price to reach $90.29 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 68.2% from the stock's current price.
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Fortune Brands Home & Security's stock was trading at $106.90 on January 1st, 2022. Since then, FBHS stock has decreased by 49.8% and is now trading at $53.69.
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Fortune Brands Home & Security saw a increase in short interest during the month of September. As of September 15th, there was short interest totaling 2,400,000 shares, an increase of 55.8% from the August 31st total of 1,540,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 1,140,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 2.1 days. Currently, 1.9% of the shares of the company are sold short.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, October 25th 2022.
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Fortune Brands Home & Security, Inc. (NYSE:FBHS) announced its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, July, 27th. The industrial products company reported $1.67 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $1.58 by $0.09. The industrial products company had revenue of $2.11 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $2.04 billion. Fortune Brands Home & Security had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 26.19% and a net margin of 9.41%. Fortune Brands Home & Security's revenue was up 9.0% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the company posted $1.56 EPS.
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Fortune Brands Home & Security declared a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, September 28th. Shareholders of record on Friday, November 25th will be given a dividend of $0.28 per share on Wednesday, December 14th. This represents a $1.12 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 2.09%. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, November 23rd.
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Fortune Brands Home & Security (NYSE:FBHS) pays an annual dividend of $1.12 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 2.05%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 8 consecutive years, indicating the company has a new, but growing committment to grow its dividend. The dividend payout ratio is 20.25%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, FBHS will have a dividend payout ratio of 17.58% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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Fortune Brands Home & Security announced that its Board of Directors has authorized a share buyback plan on Wednesday, March 2nd 2022, which allows the company to buyback $750,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization allows the company to purchase up to 6.4% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares buyback plans are generally a sign that the company's board of directors believes its stock is undervalued.

Fortune Brands Home & Security updated its FY 2022 earnings guidance on Thursday, August, 4th. The company provided EPS guidance of $6.36-$6.50 for the period, compared to the consensus EPS estimate of $6.40. The company issued revenue guidance of $8.15 billion-$8.23 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $8.13 billion.

4 employees have rated Fortune Brands Home & Security Chief Executive Officer Nicholas Fink on Glassdoor.com. Nicholas Fink has an approval rating of 100% among the company's employees. This puts Nicholas Fink in the top 10% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

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

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One share of FBHS stock can currently be purchased for approximately $53.69.

Fortune Brands Home & Security (NYSE:FBHS) has a market capitalization of $6.94 billion and generates $7.66 billion in revenue each year. The industrial products company earns $772.40 million in net income (profit) each year or $5.53 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 28,000 workers across the globe.

Fortune Brands Home & Security's mailing address is 520 LAKE COOK ROAD, DEERFIELD IL, 60015. The official website for the company is www.fbhs.com. The industrial products company can be reached via phone at (847) 484-4400, via email at investor.questions@fbhs.com, or via fax at 302-636-5454.