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 year. 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 equities research analysts have issued 1 year price objectives for Fortune Brands Home & Security's stock. Their FBHS share price forecasts range from $66.00 to $109.00. On average, they expect the company's share price to reach $90.29 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 61.8% from the stock's current price.
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Fortune Brands Home & Security's stock was trading at $106.90 at the beginning of the year. Since then, FBHS stock has decreased by 47.8% and is now trading at $55.81.
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Fortune Brands Home & Security saw a increase in short interest in 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 trading volume of 1,140,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 2.1 days. Approximately 1.9% of the company's stock are short sold.
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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) issued its earnings results on Wednesday, July, 27th. The industrial products company reported $1.67 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $1.58 by $0.09. The industrial products company earned $2.11 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $2.04 billion. Fortune Brands Home & Security had a net margin of 9.41% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 26.19%. The firm's quarterly revenue was up 9.0% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm posted $1.56 earnings per share.
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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 paid 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 2.01%. 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 2.09%. 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 approved a share buyback plan on Wednesday, March 2nd 2022, which allows the company to buyback $750,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization allows the company to repurchase up to 6.4% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares buyback plans are usually an indication that the company's leadership believes its stock is undervalued.

Fortune Brands Home & Security issued an update on its FY 2022 earnings guidance on Thursday, August, 4th. The company provided earnings per share 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."

Fortune Brands Home & Security's stock is owned by a number of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Confluence Investment Management LLC (0.21%). Insiders that own company stock include A D David Mackay, Ann F Hackett, Brett E Finley, Brian C Lantz, Cheri M Phyfer, Cheri M Phyfer, Christopher J Klein, Christopher J Klein, Danny Luburic, David Randich, Martin Thomas, Nicholas I Fink, Patrick D Hallinan and Ronald V Waters.
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Shares of FBHS stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include WeBull, Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.
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One share of FBHS stock can currently be purchased for approximately $55.81.

Fortune Brands Home & Security (NYSE:FBHS) has a market capitalization of $7.22 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.