Clorox - Chart Of The Day
The Chart of the Day belongs to Clorox (NYSE: CLX). I found the stock by using Barchart to sort the Russell 3000 Index stocks first for the highest number of new highs in the last 20 trading sessions, then again for technical buy signals of 80% or better. I always use the Flipchart feature to review the charts. Since the Trend Spotter signaled a buy on 11/19 the stock gained 4.36%.
Clorox Company's business operations, represented by the aggregate of its U.S. Household Products and Canada, U.S. Specialty Products and International segments, include the production and marketing of non-durable consumer products sold primarily through grocery and other retail stores.
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Barchart technical indicators:
- Market Cap $16.68 billion
- P/E 26.18
- Dividend yield 2.45%
- Revenue expected to grow 1.20% this y year and another 2.80% next year
- Earnings estimated to increase 6.60% this year, a additional 6.80% next year and compound at an annual rate of 7.30% for the next 5 years
- Wall Street analysts issued 1 strong buy, 9 holds and 5 under performs on the stock
- On Motley Fool the individual investors are more optimistic and voted 861 to 46 that the stock will beat the market
The regular technical trading strategies were not very reliable for this stock so I would advice using trailing stop loss 10% off the recent high to preserve profits.
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Clorox is up over 25% year to date and over 105% in the the past 5 years. It has a decent yield as you said of 2.45% and seems like a safe industry to invest in. (Cleaning products will always be needed no matter what the economy is doing!) Question is why so many analysts rate this stock as a hold (9) vs (1) strong buy,and 5 under-perform? Out of its 2 closest competitors, Clorox has the smallest market cap of $16.93 billion vs Colgate Palmolive at $61.29bn, and Procter & Gamble at $220.34 bn. Procter has a higher dividend yield of 3.39%