Clorox/$CLX
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About Clorox
Since its inception more than 100 years ago, Clorox has expanded to operate in an array of consumer product categories, 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. Nearly 85% of Clorox's sales come from its home turf.
- Ticker
- $CLX
- Sector
- Consumer Essentials
- Primary listing
- NYSE
- Employees
- 9,200
- Headquarters
- Oakland, United States
- Website
- www.thecloroxcompany.com
Clorox Metrics
BasicAdvanced
$10B
17.67
$4.81
0.54
$4.97
5.88%
Price and volume
Market cap
$10B
Beta
0.54
52-week high
$128.90
52-week low
$83.76
Average daily volume
2.9M
Dividend rate
$4.97
Financial strength
Current ratio
0.658
Quick ratio
0.337
Long term debt to equity
17.25
Total debt to equity
21.905
Dividend payout ratio (TTM)
102.56%
Interest coverage (TTM)
7.53%
Profitability
EBITDA (TTM)
1,204.333
Gross margin (TTM)
42.32%
Net profit margin (TTM)
8.74%
Operating margin (TTM)
13.23%
Effective tax rate (TTM)
24.02%
Revenue per employee (TTM)
$730,000
Management effectiveness
Return on assets (TTM)
9.16%
Return on equity (TTM)
163.76%
Valuation
Price to earnings (TTM)
17.672
Price to revenue (TTM)
1.54
Price to book
114.75
Price to tangible book (TTM)
-2.99
Price to free cash flow (TTM)
25.558
Free cash flow yield (TTM)
3.91%
Free cash flow per share (TTM)
3.326
Dividend yield (TTM)
5.85%
Forward dividend yield
5.88%
Growth
Revenue change (TTM)
-5.41%
Earnings per share change (TTM)
-26.23%
3-year revenue growth (CAGR)
-3.11%
10-year revenue growth (CAGR)
1.55%
3-year earnings per share growth (CAGR)
58.85%
10-year earnings per share growth (CAGR)
-0.23%
3-year dividend per share growth (CAGR)
1.59%
10-year dividend per share growth (CAGR)
4.80%
What the Analysts think about Clorox
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The $2.25 billion GOJO Industries acquisition is accretive to Clorox’s 3%–5% long-term sales growth target and adjusted EPS in the second year, broadening its health and hygiene portfolio with the Purell® brand (Reuters).
Q2 FY26 revenue of $1.67 billion topped consensus despite a 1% volume decline, driven by shipments ahead of consumption as consumers restock, demonstrating resiliency in core categories (Reuters).
For fiscal 2027, Clorox forecasts net sales above analysts’ estimates on improving demand in health and wellness segments and international markets, signaling successful revenue growth management (Reuters).
Household segment adjusted EBIT plunged 54% in Q2 FY26 due to higher manufacturing and logistics costs and lower net sales, underscoring ongoing margin pressure across Clorox’s core cleaning products business (Reuters).
Management maintained its fiscal 2026 net sales outlook of a 6%–10% decline after Q2 net sales fell 1%, highlighting persistent volume headwinds in key categories (Reuters).
Clorox plans to fund the GOJO acquisition primarily through debt, pushing net leverage to about 3.6× EBITDA at closing—well above its 2.0–2.5× target—raising interest expense and financial risk (Reuters).
Data summarised monthly by Lightyear AI. Last updated on 31 Aug 2026.
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Funds containing Clorox
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Fund name | Fund size | $CLX weighting |
|---|---|---|
VanEck Morningstar Wide Moat€GMVM | €407M | 2.09% |
VanEck Morningstar Wide Moat£MOGB | £354M | 2.09% |
SPDR S&P US Dividend Aristocrats€SPYD | €3.3B | 0.44% |
SPDR S&P US Dividend Aristocrats£USDV | £2.8B | 0.44% |
iShares S&P 500 Consumer Staples Sector€2B7D | €450M | 0.35% |
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