Church & Dwight Co., Inc (NYSE: CHD): Reassessing Prospects

Church & Dwight Co., Inc (CHD) concluded trading on Thursday at a closing price of $92.38, with 4.64 million shares of worth about $428.65 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained negative as price took a plunge of -8.58% during that period and on May 01, 2025 the price saw a loss of about -7.01%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 245.88M shares, out of which, 245.64M shares are available for trading.

Stock saw a price change of -7.81% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of -15.61%. Year-to-date (YTD), CHD shares are showing a performance of -11.78% which decreased to -13.59% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $96.35 but also hit the highest price of $116.46 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Church & Dwight Co., Inc shares is 1.86 million. The stock is currently trading -9.79% below its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is down -13.15% for SMA50 and it goes to -11.84% lower than SMA200.

Church & Dwight Co., Inc (NYSE: CHD) currently have 245.88M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 87.98% of that.

The stock has a current market capitalization of $22.74B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 0.55. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 39.00, while it has posted earnings per share of $2.37 in the same period. Its PEG reads 5.90 and has Quick Ratio of 1.24 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 0.55. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for CHD, volatility over the week remained 2.20% while standing at 3.11% over the month.

Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 5.28% while it is estimated to increase by 7.24% in next year. EPS is likely to grow at an annualized rate of 6.61% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of -0.60% made by the stock over the past 5-years.

Digging deeper we find that several firms have released their research notes about the support levels of the stock. Most recent of them is a note released by BofA Securities on April 15, 2025 offering a Buy rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $125 to it. Coverage by Piper Sandler stated Church & Dwight Co., Inc (CHD) stock as an Overweight in their note to investors on September 24, 2024, suggesting a price target of $120 for the stock. On September 09, 2024, Morgan Stanley Downgrade their recommendations, while on July 23, 2024, TD Cowen Initiated their ratings for the stock with a price target of $116. Stock get a Neutral rating from Exane BNP Paribas on June 24, 2024.

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