Quick Update for Clorox Company (CLX) Investors

By Scott Lee • Monday, December 11 16:45 • Permanent Link

More and more people are talking about Clorox Company over the last few weeks. Is it worth buying the Specialty Chemicals stock at a price of $140.01? Only time will tell. The information below will give you a basic idea of what this investment may entail:

Clorox Company has moved -5.6% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of 15.4%
CLX has an average analyst rating of hold and is 1.95% away from its mean target price of $137.33 per share
Its trailing earnings per share (EPS) is $0.69
Clorox Company has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 202.9 while the S&P 500 average is 15.97
Its forward earnings per share (EPS) is $5.95 and its forward P/E ratio is 23.5
Clorox Company is part of the Consumer Discretionary sector, which has an average P/E ratio of 22.96 and an average P/B of 4.24
CLX has reported YOY quarterly earnings growth of -75.0% and gross profit margins of 0.4%
The company has a free cash flow of $812.0 Million, which refers to the total sum of all its inflows and outflows of cash over the last quarter
The Clorox Company manufactures and markets consumer and professional products worldwide. It operates through four segments: Health and Wellness, Household, Lifestyle, and International. The Health and Wellness segment offers cleaning products, such as laundry additives and home care products primarily under the Clorox, Clorox2, Scentiva, Pine-Sol, Liquid-Plumr, Tilex, and Formula 409 brands; professional cleaning and disinfecting products under the CloroxPro and Clorox Healthcare brands; professional food service products under the Hidden Valley brand; and vitamins, minerals and supplement products under the RenewLife, Natural Vitality, NeoCell, and Rainbow Light brands in the United States. The Household segment provides cat litter products under the Fresh Step and Scoop Away brands; bags and wraps under the Glad brand; and grilling products under the Kingsford brand in the United States. The Lifestyle segment offers dressings, dips, seasonings, and sauces primarily under the Hidden Valley brand; natural personal care products under the Burt's Bees brand; and water-filtration products under the Brita brand in the United States. The International segment provides laundry additives; home care products; water-filtration systems; digestive health products; grilling products; cat litter products; food products; bags and wraps; natural personal care products; and professional cleaning and disinfecting products internationally primarily under the Clorox, Ayudin, Clorinda, Poett, Pine-Sol, Glad, Brita, RenewLife, Ever Clean and Burt's Bees brands. It sells its products primarily through mass retailers; grocery outlets; warehouse clubs; dollar stores; home hardware centers; drug, pet, and military stores; third-party and owned e-commerce channels; and distributors, as well as a direct sales force The Clorox Company was founded in 1913 and is headquartered in Oakland, California.

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