Church & Dwight Company, Inc. (CHD): Price and Financial Metrics

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Church & Dwight Company, Inc. (CHD) Company Bio

Church & Dwight develops, manufactures, and markets household, personal care, and specialty products. The company was founded in 1846 and is based in Ewing, New Jersey.

CHD Price Forecast Based on DCF Valuation

Below please find a table outlining a discounted cash flow forecast for CHD, in which we model out valuation assuming a variety of terminal growth rates. To summarize, we found that Church & Dwight Co Inc ranked in the 39th percentile in terms of potential gain offered. We should note, though, that the most conservative analysis suggests this stock will yield negative results -- and thus may be a potential short opportunity. In terms of the factors that were most noteworthy in this DCF analysis for CHD, they are:

• The company's balance sheet shows it gets 90% of its capital from equity, and 10% of its capital from debt. Notably, its equity weight is greater than 70.24% of US equities in the Consumer Defensive sector yielding a positive free cash flow.
• CHD's estimated cost of debt, based largely on its market capitalization and its interest coverage ratio, is 3%; for context, that number is higher than 34.32% of tickers in our DCF set.
• Church & Dwight Co Inc's interest coverage rate -- a measure of gross earnings relative to interest payments -- comes in at 16.96. This coverage rate is greater than that of 82.83% of stocks we're observing for the purpose of forecasting via discounted cash flows.

AGFS, MGPI, MKC, HAIN, and PRMW can be thought of as valuation peers to CHD, in the sense that they are in the Consumer Defensive sector and have a similar price forecast based on DCF valuation.