Clorox Co (NYSE: CLX) on Friday, soared 0.19% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $164.13. Within the past 52 weeks, CLX’s price has moved between $127.60 and $171.37.
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Annual sales at Consumer Defensive sector company grew by 2.83% over the past five years. The company achieved an average annual earnings per share of 11.04%. With a float of $123.40 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $123.67 million.
Let’s look at the performance matrix of the company that is accounted for 8000 employees. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 44.42%, operating margin of 18.21%, and the pretax margin is 7.31%.
Clorox Co (CLX) Insider Updates
Observing investor behavior towards Household & Personal Products industry stocks is more important than anything else. The insider ownership of Clorox Co is 0.31%, while institutional ownership is 81.15%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Dec 16 ’24, was worth 206,622. In this transaction EVP – Chief Legal Officer of this company sold 1,248 shares at a rate of $165.56, taking the stock ownership to the 19,833 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Dec 16 ’24, when Company’s Officer proposed sale 1,248 for $164.92, making the entire transaction worth $205,820.
Clorox Co (CLX) Performance Highlights and Predictions
Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 1.64 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 11.04% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 8.37% during the next five years compared to -18.70% drop over the previous five years of trading.
Clorox Co (NYSE: CLX) Trading Performance Indicators
Clorox Co (CLX) is currently performing well based on its current performance indicators. A quick ratio of 0.62 was reported for the most recent quarter. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 2.73. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 30.48.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 2.86, a number that is poised to hit 1.39 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 7.26 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Clorox Co (CLX)
Clorox Co (NYSE: CLX) saw its 5-day average volume 1.82 million, a positive change from its year-to-date volume of 1.24 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 31.87%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 2.78.
During the past 100 days, Clorox Co’s (CLX) raw stochastic average was set at 82.86%, which indicates a significant increase from 37.06% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 14.43% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 18.49% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $164.02, while its 200-day Moving Average is $150.04. Nevertheless, the first resistance level for the watch stands at $165.32 in the near term. At $166.20, the stock is likely to face the second major resistance level. The third major resistance level sits at $167.40. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $163.24, it is likely to go to the next support level at $162.04. Assuming the price breaks the second support level, the third support level stands at $161.16.
Clorox Co (NYSE: CLX) Key Stats
Market capitalization of the company is 20.39 billion based on 123,781K outstanding shares. Right now, sales total 7,093 M and income totals 280,000 K. The company made 1,762 M in profit during its latest quarter, and 99,000 K in sales during its previous quarter.
