Church & Dwight Co., Inc. (CHD) - Stock Analysis

Last updated: Jun 13, 2026

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Church & Dwight shows moderate short-term upside with strong brand momentum, 7.3% price rise recently, stable technicals, organic growth, and upcoming Q4 2025 earnings, but tempered by premium valuation and sector challenges.

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Idea window: 1/29/2026 – 2/5/2026Sector: Consumer Defensive

AI Analyst Overview

Last Price
$97.56
Market Cap
$21.50B
1D Return
+0.49%
YTD Return
+17.09%

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Valuation Metrics

P/E
29.3
P/B
5.1
P/S
3.5
EV/EBITDA
18.5
Div Yield
1.31%

Fundamental Analysis

8.0

Key Financial Insights: • Margin Resilience • Cash Conversion • Leverage Risk CHD combines resilient margins, strong cash generation, and high returns on capital, but its elevated leverage, thin liquidity, and premium valuation leave limited upside.

StrongCashFlow
HighLeverage

Price Behavior

6.0

Key Price Behavior Insights: • Support Holding • Resistance Ceiling • Quick Rebound Support Level: $95.00-$96.00 Resistance Level: $98.00-$98.20 Over the last month, CHD has been gradually improving and is holding above $95-$96 support, but it still needs a clean break above $98.00-$98.20 resistance to confirm a stronger bullish move.

Bullish
Breakout

Sentiment & News

7.0

Key News Insights: • Digital expansion • Brand acquisition • Investor attention Church & Dwight is signaling steady growth through its $325 million Miss Mouth's Messy Eater acquisition, digital fabric-care expansion, and ongoing investor engagement, reinforcing a focused-brand strategy amid heightened trading interest.

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expansion
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AI Summary

6.5
Positive

CHD should now be viewed less as a cheap defensive staple and more as a premium-priced quality compounder that can still deliver mid-single-digit growth only if its core brands keep outperforming and acquisitions like Miss Mouth's scale effectively, but with the stock already trading at ~32x earnings, the main actionable risk is that any slowdown in organic growth or margin pressure could cap returns quickly.

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Description

Church & Dwight manufactures and sells household, personal care and specialty products through three reporting segments: Consumer Domestic, Consumer International and Specialty Products Division. Its consumer portfolio includes established brands across baking-soda based household goods, oral and personal care, cleaning agents, sexual and reproductive health, supplements and pet products, while its specialty business supplies animal productivity and nutritional inputs such as MEGALAC, BIO-CHLOR and CELMANAX to agricultural customers. The company distributes products via supermarkets, mass merchants, drugstores, specialty retailers, e-commerce and industrial distributors; it was founded in 1846 and is headquartered in Ewing, New Jersey.

Idea History

DateCloseTickerCompanySummaryStatusP/L
Jan 29Feb 5CHDChurch & Dwight Co., Inc.
Church & Dwight shows moderate short-term upside with strong brand momentum, 7.3% price rise recently, stable technicals, organic growth, and upcoming Q4 2025 earnings, but tempered by premium valuation and sector challenges.
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