Church & Dwight (CHD) Stock Price, News & Analysis

16 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Church & Dwight in the last year. There are currently 3 sell ratings, 7 hold ratings and 6 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "hold" CHD shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in CHD, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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16 Wall Street research analysts have issued 1-year price targets for Church & Dwight's stock. Their CHD share price targets range from $83.00 to $115.00. On average, they anticipate the company's share price to reach $103.27 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 1.6% from the stock's current price.
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Church & Dwight's stock was trading at $94.56 at the beginning of 2024. Since then, CHD stock has increased by 7.5% and is now trading at $101.63.
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Church & Dwight saw a increase in short interest during the month of March. As of March 15th, there was short interest totaling 6,910,000 shares, an increase of 12.5% from the February 29th total of 6,140,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 1,270,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 5.4 days. Currently, 2.8% of the company's stock are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, May 2nd 2024.
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Church & Dwight will be holding an earnings conference call on Thursday, May 2nd at 10:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link.

Church & Dwight Co., Inc. (NYSE:CHD) released its earnings results on Friday, February, 2nd. The company reported $0.65 EPS for the quarter, meeting analysts' consensus estimates of $0.65. The business earned $1.53 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.51 billion. Church & Dwight had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 20.28% and a net margin of 12.88%. The company's revenue for the quarter was up 6.4% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company posted $0.62 earnings per share.
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Church & Dwight declared a quarterly dividend on Friday, February 2nd. Investors of record on Thursday, February 15th will be given a dividend of $0.2838 per share on Friday, March 1st. This represents a $1.14 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.12%. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, February 14th. This is an increase from the stock's previous quarterly dividend of $0.27.
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Church & Dwight (NYSE:CHD) pays an annual dividend of $1.13 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 1.12%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 28 consecutive years, indicating the company has a strong committment to maintain and grow its dividend. The dividend payout ratio is 37.17%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, CHD will have a dividend payout ratio of 30.38% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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Church & Dwight's stock split on the morning of Friday, September 2nd 2016. The 2-1 split was announced on Thursday, August 4th 2016. The newly minted shares were distributed to shareholders after the closing bell on Thursday, September 1st 2016. An investor that had 100 shares of stock prior to the split would have 200 shares after the split.

Church & Dwight issued an update on its first quarter 2024 earnings guidance on Friday, February, 2nd. The company provided earnings per share guidance of 0.850-0.850 for the period, compared to the consensus earnings per share estimate of 0.930. The company issued revenue guidance of $1.5 billion-$1.5 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $1.5 billion.

98 employees have rated Church & Dwight Chief Executive Officer Matthew Farrell on Glassdoor.com. Matthew Farrell has an approval rating of 97% among the company's employees. This puts Matthew Farrell in the top 30% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

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Church & Dwight's stock is owned by a variety of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Congress Asset Management Co. MA (0.47%), Mountain Pacific Investment Advisers Inc. ID (0.18%), Bath Savings Trust Co (0.09%), Los Angeles Capital Management LLC (0.06%), Folger Nolan Fleming Douglas Capital Management Inc. (0.06%) and M. Kraus & Co (0.04%). Insiders that own company stock include Arthur B Winkleblack, Barry A Bruno, Bradley C Irwin, Brian D Buchert, Britta Bomhard, James Craigie, Matthew Farrell, Maynadier Patrick D De, Michael Read, Paul Richard Wood, Penry W Price, Ravichandra Krishnamu Saligram, Rene Hemsey, Richard A Dierker and Robert K Shearer.
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