Stock · CHD · Consumer Defensive
United States · Large Cap · listed since 1986 · Revenue 12 mo. $6.2B
Price as of 11/06/2026
Church & Dwight Co., Inc. develops, manufactures, and markets household, personal care, and specialty products.
Church & Dwight Co., Inc. develops, manufactures, and markets household, personal care, and specialty products. It operates in three segments: Consumer Domestic, Consumer International, and Specialty Products Division. The company offers baking soda, cat litters, laundry detergents, carpet deodorizers, and other baking soda-based products under the ARM & HAMMER brand; stain removers, cleaning solutions, laundry detergents, and bleach alternatives under the OXICLEAN brand; dry shampoos under the BATISTE brand; water flossers under the WATERPIK brand; oral care products under the THERABREATH brand; acne treatment products under the HERO brand; hand sanitizers under the TOUCHLAND brand; and condoms, lubricants, and vibrators under the TROJAN brand. It also provides home pregnancy and ovulation test kits under the FIRST RESPONSE brand; depilatories under the NAIR; oral analgesics under the ORAJEL brand; laundry detergents under the XTRA brand; and cold shortening and relief products under the ZICAM brand. In addition, the company's specialty products include animal and food productivity products, such as ARM & HAMMER baking soda as a feed additive to help dairy cow; BIO-CHLOR and FERMENTEN used to reduce health issues associated with calving, as well as needed protein; CELMANAX refined functional carbohydrate, a yeast-based prebiotic; and CERTILLUS a probiotics products used in the poultry, dairy, beef, and swine industries. Additionally, it offers sodium bicarbonate; and cleaning and deodorizing products. The company sells its consumer products through supermarkets, mass merchandisers, wholesale clubs, drugstores, convenience stores, home stores, dollar and other discount stores, pet and other specialty stores, websites and other e-commerce channels; and specialty products to industrial customers and livestock producers through distributors. Church & Dwight Co., Inc. was founded in 1846 and is headquartered in Ewing, New Jersey.
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Summary
57.9 of 100
Mean of the six area values. Each area value is the mean of the stock's ranks among the companies in its sector. 50 is the middle of the sector, not a share of companies beaten.
Analysis
What the price requires
If free cash flow stays at €980.9M (2025), it supports €10.9B. The remaining €11.6B of the market value assume it grows 10.1% a year for 10 years and not at all afterwards.
Required FCF growth per year
10.1%
no growth afterwards
Price to operating cash flow 20.7×, within its usual range.
Middle half of 20 quarters: 20.0× to 23.9×, median 22.5×.
Measures only against its own past, not against what the company is worth. Price as of 11/06/2026.
with respect to the priced-in expectation
with respect to the priced-in expectation
Since the last quarter
Q1 → Q2 2026
7 more unchanged: Revenue, 12 mo., FCF, 12 mo., Gross margin, EBIT margin, FCF margin, Shares outstanding, Return on equity
Derivation
Each area value is the average of its metrics' ranks within the sector (0 to 100, 50 is the middle). For metrics where lower is better, the rank is mirrored. The overall value is the average of the area values.
Price as of 11/06/2026.
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Return on equity | 18.41% | 12.35% | Rank 70 |
| Return on capital (Greenblatt) | 116.86% | 20.14% | Rank 94 |
| EBIT margin | 17.37% | 9.44% | Rank 83 |
| FCF margin | 17.62% | 6.71% | Rank 92 |
| Gross margin | 44.73% | 35.78% | Rank 68 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue growth, 1 year | 1.57% | 2.12% | Rank 44 |
| Earnings growth, 3 years per year | 21.52% | 5.20% | Rank 85 |
| Earnings growth, 5 years per year | −0.65% | 6.07% | Rank 31 |
| Sustainable growth (ROE × retained earnings) | 1.97% | 3.77% | Rank 15 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earnings yield | 2.76% | 4.25% | Rank 23 |
| FCF yield | 4.36% | 5.05% | Rank 35 |
| EV/saleslower is better | 4.33 | 1.51 | Rank 10 |
| EV/EBITlower is better | 24.92 | 16.74 | Rank 25 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Share price, 1 year | 17.21% | 3.24% | Rank 74 |
| Share price, 6 months | 17.49% | 11.30% | Rank 71 |
| Share price, 3 months | 11.03% | 9.00% | Rank 66 |
| Distance from 52-week high | −2.41% | −7.96% | Rank 73 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Accruals (Sloan)lower is better | 1.55% | −0.99% | Rank 24 |
| Change in share countlower is better | −1.05% | −0.62% | Rank 58 |
| Dividend streak in years | 40 | 5 | Rank 97 |
| Price reaction to results, market-adjusted | 2.76% | 0.22% | Rank 80 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Equity ratio | 44.91% | 41.95% | Rank 56 |
| Net debt/EBITDAlower is better | 1.38 | 1.96 | Rank 62 |
| Debt to equitylower is better | 0.55 | 0.67 | Rank 60 |
| Volatility, 1 yearlower is better | 23.16% | 25.82% | Rank 77 |
Ten years in figures
| Year | Revenue, $B | EBIT margin | FCF | Shares | Net debt |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 3.5 | 20.7% | $605.5M | 262M | $932.4M |
| 2017 | 3.8 | 19.4% | $636.5M | 256M | $2.1B |
| 2018 | 4.1 | 19.1% | $703.2M | 251M | $1.8B |
| 2019 | 4.4 | 19.3% | $790.8M | 252M | $2.1B |
| 2020 | 4.9 | 21.0% | $891.4M | 252M | $2.2B |
| 2021 | 5.2 | 20.8% | $875.0M | 250M | $2.5B |
| 2022 | 5.4 | 11.1% | $706.4M | 246M | $2.6B |
| 2023 | 5.9 | 18.0% | $807.1M | 248M | $2.3B |
| 2024 | 6.1 | 13.2% | $976.4M | 247M | $1.4B |
| 2025 | 6.2 | 17.4% | $1.1B | 244M | $1.8B |
4 of 7 StockScorer Score rules met · How the score is built
Church & Dwight Company Inc mainly meets criteria in the Profitability category. Result from 18 strategies checked.
Church & Dwight Company Inc is rated here with the StockScorer Score strategy, the flagship rule set. It compares return and cash-flow metrics with the median of the company's own sector and checks growth and price trend.
4 of 7 rules met
6 of 11 points
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Selected fundamental metrics for Church & Dwight Company Inc.
| Metric | Stock | Sector |
|---|---|---|
| P/E ratio | 36.3 | 22.8 |
| P/B ratio | 6.7 | 2.6 |
| Return on equity (ROE) | 18.4% | 12.3% |
| Equity ratio | 44.9% | 42.0% |
| Debt-to-equity (D/E) | 0.55 | 0.67 |
| Dividend yield | 1.1% | 2.6% |
How comparable stocks in the same sector score in the StockScorer model.
| Symbol | Company | Rating |
|---|---|---|
| CHD | Church & Dwight Company Incthis page | |
| KMB | Kimberly-Clark Corporation | Low4.5 |
| KVUE | Kenvue Inc. | locked |
| CLX | The Clorox Company | Low3.6 |
| EL | Estee Lauder Companies Inc | locked |
| CL | Colgate-Palmolive Company | locked |
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