In today’s recent session, 2.08 million shares of the Procter & Gamble Co (NYSE:PG) have been traded, and its beta is 0.38. Most recently the company’s share price was $158.4, and it changed around -$2.1 or -1.31% from the last close, which brings the market valuation of the company to $371.38B. PG at last check was trading at a discount to its 52-week high of $180.43, offering almost -13.91% off that amount. The share price’s 52-week low was $156.58, which indicates that the recent value has risen by an impressive 1.15% since then. We note from Procter & Gamble Co’s average daily trading volume that its 10-day average is 9.16 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 8.33 million.
Procter & Gamble Co stock received a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, based on a mean score of 1.76. If we narrow it down even further, the data shows that 0 out of 25 analysts rate the stock as a Sell; another 5 rate it as Overweight. Among the rest, 8 recommended PG as a Hold, whereas 11 deemed it a Buy, and 1 rated it as Underweight.
Procter & Gamble Co (NYSE:PG) trade information
Instantly PG has been showing red trend so far today with a performance of -1.31% on intraday trading today. The performance over the last five days has remained in the red territory. The rise to weekly highs of 162.53 on recent trading dayincreased the stock’s daily price by 2.54%. The company’s shares are currently down -3.31% year-to-date, but still down -0.58% over the last five days. On the other hand, Procter & Gamble Co (NYSE:PG) is -2.70% down in the 30-day period. We can see from the shorts that 14.68 million shares have been sold at a short interest cover period of 2.06 day(s).
The consensus price target as assigned by Wall Street analysts is $161, which translates to bulls needing to increase their stock price by 1.61% from its current value. Analyst projections state that PG is forecast to be at a low of $159 and a high of $180.
Looking at the company’s year-over-year earnings, the past five years showed a positive earnings growth rate of 33.28%. Procter & Gamble Co earnings are expected to increase by 2.90% in 2025, but the outlook is positive 4.20% per year for the next five years.
PG Dividends
Procter & Gamble Co’s next quarterly earnings report is expected to be released on 2025-Apr-24. The annual dividend yield of the stock is 2.57 percent and its annual dividend per share was 4.08. It is important to note, however, that the 2.57% dividend yield ratio should be regarded as a guide only, as many other factors should be taken into consideration before making any investment decision. The average dividend yield for the past five years averaged 2.39 per year.
Procter & Gamble Co (NYSE:PG)’s Major holders
Upon looking at major shareholders, it appears that insiders hold 0.06% of Procter & Gamble Co shares, and 70.12% of them are in the hands of institutional investors. The stock currently has a share float of 70.16%. Procter & Gamble Co stock is held by 4971.0 institutions, with VANGUARD GROUP INC being the largest institutional investor. By 2024-06-30, it held 9.5871% of the shares, which is about 225.97 million shares worth $37.27 billion.
BLACKROCK INC., with 6.7513% or 159.13 million shares worth $26.24 billion as of 2024-06-30, holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares.
VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard 500 Index Fund were the top two Mutual Funds as of Mar 31, 2025 . The former held 74.1 shares worth $11.73 billion, making up 3.16% of all outstanding shares. On the other hand, VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard 500 Index Fund held roughly 65.16 shares worth around $10.32 billion, which represents about 2.78% of the total shares outstanding.
