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 1.38%. The ex-dividend date 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 has authorized a stock buyback program on Monday, April 30th 2018, which permits the company to repurchase $150,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization permits the company to repurchase up to 1.8% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase programs are often a sign that the company's leadership believes its shares are 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 analysts' consensus estimates of $0.97 by $0.02. The industrial products company had revenue of $1.46 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.49 billion. Fortune Brands Home & Security had a net margin of 7.23% and a return on equity of 21.55%. Fortune Brands Home & Security's revenue for the quarter was up 5.7% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company 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.

Fortune Brands Home & Security updated its FY19 earnings guidance on Wednesday, October, 23rd. The company provided EPS guidance of $3.53-3.63 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus EPS estimate of $3.60. The company issued revenue guidance of $5.76-5.81 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $5.81 billion.

11 brokerages have issued 1-year price targets for Fortune Brands Home & Security's shares. Their forecasts range from $50.00 to $76.00. On average, they anticipate Fortune Brands Home & Security's stock price to reach $66.70 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 3.9%. 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 headlines about FBHS stock have trended very positive recently, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. InfoTrie ranks the sentiment of news coverage by reviewing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Fortune Brands Home & Security earned a media sentiment score of 3.4 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave press coverage about the industrial products company a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely likely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the immediate future. 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 daily volume of 1,270,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 1.7 days. Currently, 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 number 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 Calamos Advisors LLC (0.08%). 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, Meag Munich Ergo Kapitalanlagegesellschaft MBH, Arvest Bank Trust Division, Calamos Advisors LLC, Gradient Investments LLC, Private Trust Co. NA, American Research & Management Co. and IFM Investors Pty Ltd. 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 Assenagon Asset Management S.A., Artemis Investment Management LLP, Fenimore Asset Management Inc., First Hawaiian Bank, DNB Asset Management AS, State of Alaska Department of Revenue, Cerebellum GP LLC and FormulaFolio Investments LLC. 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 $69.41.

Fortune Brands Home & Security has a market capitalization of $9.66 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]