In a report released today, Rupesh Parikh from Oppenheimer assigned a Buy rating to Church & Dwight (CHD), with a price target of $100.00. The company’s shares closed last Friday at $86.18.
According to TipRanks.com, Parikh is a 5-star analyst with an average return of 15.9% and a 67.2% success rate. Parikh covers the Consumer Goods sector, focusing on stocks such as Bj’s Wholesale Club Holdings, The Estée Lauder Companies, and United Natural Foods.
Currently, the analyst consensus on Church & Dwight is a Moderate Buy with an average price target of $92.86.
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Church & Dwight’s market cap is currently $21.59B and has a P/E ratio of 28.50. The company has a Price to Book ratio of -14.18.
Based on the recent corporate insider activity of 36 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.
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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.
