In a report released on February 2, Christopher Carey from Wells Fargo maintained a Buy rating on Church & Dwight (CHD – Research Report). The company’s shares closed last Friday at $99.37.
According to TipRanks, Carey is a 4-star analyst with an average return of 4.2% and a 52.84% success rate. Carey covers the Consumer Defensive sector, focusing on stocks such as Church & Dwight, Colgate-Palmolive, and Clorox.
Currently, the analyst consensus on Church & Dwight is a Hold with an average price target of $97.92, which is a -1.46% downside from current levels. In a report released on January 29, Oppenheimer also maintained a Buy rating on the stock with a $107.00 price target.
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The company has a one-year high of $103.21 and a one-year low of $80.82. Currently, Church & Dwight has an average volume of 1.47M.
Based on the recent corporate insider activity of 56 insiders, corporate insider sentiment is negative on the stock. This means that over the past quarter there has been an increase of insiders selling their shares of CHD in relation to earlier this year. Most recently, in December 2023, Michael Read, the EVP, International of CHD sold 4,500.00 shares for a total of $432,000.00.
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Church & Dwight (CHD) Company Description:
Church & Dwight Co., Inc. engages in the development, manufacture, and market of household, personal care, and specialty products. It operates through the following segments: Consumer Domestic, Consumer International, and Specialty Products. The Consumer Domestic segment offers household products, such as laundry detergents, fabric softener sheets, cat litter, and household cleaning products; and personal care products including antiperspirants, oral care products, depilatories, reproductive health products, oral analgesics, nasal saline moisturizers, and dietary supplements. The Consumer International segment offers personal care products, household and over-the counter products in Canada, France, Australia, China, the United Kingdom, Mexico, and Brazil. The Specialty Products segment consists of sales to businesses which participated in different product areas, namely animal productivity, specialty chemicals, and specialty cleaners. The company was founded by Dwight John and Austin Church in 1846 and is headquartered in Ewing, NJ.
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