In the latest trading session, 2.29 million Procter & Gamble Co. (NYSE:PG) shares changed hands as the company’s beta touched 0.41. With the company’s most recent per share price at $170.38 changing hands around $0.84 or 0.49% at last look, the market valuation stands at $400.34B. PG’s current price is a discount, trading about -4.44% off its 52-week high of $177.94. The share price had its 52-week low at $142.50, which suggests the last value was 16.36% up since then. When we look at Procter & Gamble Co.’s average trading volume, we note the 10-day average is 7.03 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 7.06 million.

Analysts gave the Procter & Gamble Co. (PG) stock a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, calculated at a mean rating of 2.07. If we narrow down to specifics, the data shows that 0 out of 18 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, with a further 0 assigning it an Overweight rating. Of the remaining, 5 recommended PG as a Hold, 13 felt it is a Buy and 0 rated the stock as Underweight.

Procter & Gamble Co. (NYSE:PG) trade information

Instantly PG is in green as seen in intraday trades today. With action -1.84%, the performance over the past five days has been red. The company’s shares are showing year-to-date upside of 16.27%, with the 5-day performance at -1.84% in the red. However, in the 30-day time frame, Procter & Gamble Co. (NYSE:PG) is -1.95% down. Looking at the short shares, we see there were 20.42 million shares sold at short interest cover period of 2.68 days.

The consensus price target for the stock as assigned by Wall Street analysts is 164, meaning bulls need a downside of -3.89% from its recent market value. According to analyst projections, PG’s forecast low is 40 with 192 as the target high. To hit the forecast high, the stock’s price needs a -12.69% plunge from its current level, while the stock would need to tank 76.52% for it to hit the projected low.

Procter & Gamble Co. (PG) estimates and forecasts

Data shows that the Procter & Gamble Co. share is performing relatively much not better than most of its peers within the same industry. As can be gleaned from the statistics, the company’s share value shot 5.50% over the past 6 months, a 5.31% in annual growth rate that is considerably lower than the industry average of 7.90%.

Looking at the company’s year-on-year earnings, data shows that the past 5-year has an earnings growth rate of 33.30%. The 2024 estimates are for Procter & Gamble Co. earnings to increase by 5.56%, but the outlook for the next 5-year period is at 6.73% per year.

PG Dividends

Procter & Gamble Co. is expected to release its next quarterly earnings report on 2025-Jan-21. The 2.32% annual yield figure for the share gives it an annual dividend of 3.96. It is important to note, however, that the 2.32% dividend yield ratio should serve as a guide only, as you should also take into consideration many other aspects of a company’s operations and fundamentals before making any investment decision. During the past 5 years, the average dividend yield was 2.41 per year.

Procter & Gamble Co. (NYSE:PG)’s Major holders

If we look at who the major shareholders are, we find that insiders hold 0.05% of Procter & Gamble Co. shares while 69.00% of the shares are in the hands of institutional holders. The share float percentage for the stock currently stands at 69.03%. There are 69.00% institutions holding the Procter & Gamble Co. stock share, with VANGUARD GROUP INC the top institutional holder. As of 2024-06-30, the company held 9.5729% of the shares, roughly 225.97 million PG shares worth $37.27 billion.

BLACKROCK INC. holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares, with 6.7412% or 159.13 million shares worth $26.24 billion as of 2024-06-30.