Edgewell Personal Care (EPC) Stock Price, News & Analysis

3 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Edgewell Personal Care in the last twelve months. There are currently 1 sell rating, 1 hold rating and 1 buy rating for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "hold" EPC shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in EPC, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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3 brokerages have issued 1 year price objectives for Edgewell Personal Care's stock. Their EPC share price targets range from $33.00 to $43.00. On average, they predict the company's share price to reach $37.67 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 6.1% from the stock's current price.
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Edgewell Personal Care's stock was trading at $36.63 at the start of the year. Since then, EPC stock has decreased by 3.1% and is now trading at $35.49.
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Edgewell Personal Care saw a increase in short interest in March. As of March 31st, there was short interest totaling 2,160,000 shares, an increase of 13.1% from the March 15th total of 1,910,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 384,900 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 5.6 days. Approximately 4.4% of the company's shares are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, May 8th 2024.
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Edgewell Personal Care will be holding an earnings conference call on Wednesday, May 8th at 8:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link.

Edgewell Personal Care Co (NYSE:EPC) released its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, February, 7th. The company reported $0.24 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $0.06 by $0.18. The firm earned $488.90 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $481.41 million. Edgewell Personal Care had a net margin of 4.66% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 8.38%. The company's revenue was up 4.2% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last year, the company posted $0.31 EPS.

Edgewell Personal Care announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, February 1st. Investors of record on Thursday, March 7th will be given a dividend of $0.15 per share on Thursday, April 4th. This represents a $0.60 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 1.69%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, March 6th.
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Edgewell Personal Care (NYSE:EPC) pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 1.68%. The dividend payout ratio is 29.41%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, EPC will have a dividend payout ratio of 19.67% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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ETFs with the largest weight of Edgewell Personal Care (NYSE:EPC) stock in their portfolio include Invesco S&P SmallCap Consumer Staples ETF (PSCC), JPMorgan Active Small Cap Value ETF (JPSV) and Burney U.S. Factor Rotation ETF (BRNY).SPDR S&P 600 Small Cap ETF (SLY).

Edgewell Personal Care updated its FY 2024 earnings guidance on Wednesday, February, 7th. The company provided EPS guidance of 2.650-2.850 for the period, compared to the consensus earnings per share estimate of 2.740. The company issued revenue guidance of $2.3 billion-$2.3 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $2.3 billion.

35 employees have rated Edgewell Personal Care Chief Executive Officer Rod Little on Glassdoor.com. Rod Little has an approval rating of 83% among the company's employees.

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Edgewell Personal Care's stock is owned by a variety of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Confluence Investment Management LLC (0.19%), ARGA Investment Management LP (0.01%) and Northwest Investment Counselors LLC (0.00%). Insiders that own company stock include Anne-Sophie Gaget, Carla C Hendra, Eric F O'toole and John N Hill.
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