Clorox (CLX)

• Market cap: $19.8B
• 1 day: -0.12%
• 5 days: 1.36%
• 1 month: -1.86%
• 3 months: -1.43%
• 6 months: 16.82%
• Year to date: -0.96%
• 1 year: 11.17%
• 5 years: 1.64%
• 10 years: 47.59%
• Sector: Materials
• Industry: Specialty Cleaning, Polishing & Sanitation Preparations

About: Since its inception more than 100 years ago, Clorox has grown to play in a variety of categories across the consumer products space, including cleaning supplies, laundry care, trash bags, cat litter, charcoal, food dressings, water-filtration products, and natural personal-care products. Beyond its namesake brand, the firm's portfolio includes Liquid-Plumr, Pine-Sol, S.O.S, Tilex, Kingsford, Fresh Step, Glad, Hidden Valley, KC Masterpiece, Brita, and Burt's Bees. Just less than 85% of Clorox's sales stem from its home turf.

Employees: 7,400

Fund manager confidence

Based on 2024 Q3 regulatory filings by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)

95% more first-time investments, than exits

New positions opened: 142 | Existing positions closed: 73

46% more call options, than puts

Call options by funds: $398M | Put options by funds: $272M

40% more funds holding in top 10

Funds holding in top 10: 5 [Q2] → 7 (+2) [Q3]

11% more capital invested

Capital invested by funds: $14.3B [Q2] → $15.9B (+$1.64B) [Q3]

5% more funds holding

Funds holding: 1,074 [Q2] → 1,129 (+55) [Q3]

1.34% less ownership

Funds ownership: 84.23% [Q2] → 82.89% (-1.34%) [Q3]

23% less repeat investments, than reductions

Existing positions increased: 332 | Existing positions reduced: 431

Research analyst outlook

5 Wall Street Analysts provided 1 year price targets over the past 3 months

• Low target: $130 19% downside
• Avg. target: $160 0% upside
• High target: $171 7% upside

5 analyst ratings

• positive: 0 0%
• neutral: 4 80%
• negative: 1 20%

Barclays Lauren Lieberman 43% 1-year accuracy 39 / 90 met price target	19% downside $130	Underweight Maintained	17 Jan 2025
JP Morgan Andrea Teixeira 39% 1-year accuracy 21 / 54 met price target	7% upside $171	Neutral Maintained	16 Jan 2025
Wells Fargo Chris Carey 40% 1-year accuracy 17 / 43 met price target	2% downside $157	Equal-Weight Upgraded	7 Jan 2025
TD Cowen Robert Moskow 50% 1-year accuracy 30 / 60 met price target	6% upside $170	Hold Upgraded	6 Nov 2024
DA Davidson Linda Bolton Weiser 38% 1-year accuracy 39 / 104 met price target	7% upside $171	Neutral Maintained	4 Nov 2024