Church & Dwight Co., Inc (CHD) saw an uptrend of 0.40% in the recent trading with $2460000.0 being its most recent. The current price level -15.83% lower than the highest price of $116.46 marked by the stock while trading over the past 52-weeks, whereas it is 7.74% higher than the lowest price of $90.99 the company dropped to over past 52-weeks. The latest news story on CHD appeared in (Motley Fool) under the title “Got $5,000? 3 Top Growth Stocks to Buy That Could Double Your Money.” on Jul-01-25.
Do analysts rate it as a buy, sell or hold?
Irrespective of recent performance, what’s important is what the future holds. In uncertain economic times, a clear picture is difficult to get. Analysts generally have a good understanding of the market works, which gives them a leg up in making predictions. Currently, the stock has been recommended as Moderate Buy by 15 of the brokerage firms. Analyst ratings are often compiled into a single score from 1 to 5. The score of 1 signifies buy or strong buy, the score of 2 signifies outperform, the score of 3 means hold, and the score of 4 indicates underperform. The simple numeric range of brokerage firm referenced at the scale of 1 to 5 reads a current average recommendation of 2.68 for the stock.
Church & Dwight Co., Inc Earnings – What Happened With CHD
Coming around sales and income figures on CHD Stock Income Statement, public trading companies under normal circumstances post earnings and revenues near to average estimates by the Wall Street analysts, but those could came either above or below estimates and known as surprise factor.
Church & Dwight Co., Inc – Insider Activity and Holdings
Investors get the exact data about the key information of institutional ownership in a listed company through its 13F filings at the Stock Exchange Commission (SEC). The total number of common shares currently owned by the public is 246.23 million. CHD does have institutional investors; and they hold 88.16% of the stock.
As on 2024-06-30, VANGUARD GROUP INC was the top most holder in Church & Dwight Co., Inc (NYSE:CHD) with an ownership of 30.23 million shares of the company or 12.3753 of the stake worth $3.13 billion. The filing also reveals BLACKROCK INC. as the second largest holder in the company with a control over 8.572 of the outstanding shares. Its stake is worth $2.17 billion for having 20.94 million shares in hand.
STATE STREET CORP also came holding a key position in the company during the recent quarter and it now holds 4.9723 of the outstanding shares. With this there are now 1500.0 institutions which have possession in CHD’s shares.
Key Metrics forCHD
The liquidity is a key characteristic of any stock and is the main point of focus of both short-term as well as long term investors before start trading into a stock. In recently reported quarter, Church & Dwight Co., Inc has a debt to equity ratio of 0.53.
Technical Analysis of Church & Dwight Co., Inc (NYSE:CHD) stock
To comprehend better with the trade moves and investors’ behavior, exploring the short, medium and long term technical indicators along with average volume of a stock is an effective way to make use of. When looking into those indicators for Church & Dwight Co., Inc (CHD), we notice that the stock’s 20-day average volume is at 2,282,195 shares. Medium term indicators at an average of 50% are spotting the stock at Sell with its 50-day average volume of 2,523,468 shares. And to end, CHD’s 100-day average volume is 2,122,867 shares with 100% of the long-term indicators pointing towards Sell for the stock.
