Clorox Valuation

Is CLX undervalued compared to its fair value, analyst forecasts and its price relative to the market?

Valuation Score

0/6

Valuation Score 0/6

  • Below Fair Value

  • Significantly Below Fair Value

  • Price-To-Earnings vs Peers

  • Price-To-Earnings vs Industry

  • Price-To-Earnings vs Fair Ratio

  • Analyst Forecast

Share Price vs Fair Value

What is the Fair Price of CLX when looking at its future cash flows? For this estimate we use a Discounted Cash Flow model.

Below Fair Value: CLX ($166) is trading above our estimate of fair value ($122.99)

Significantly Below Fair Value: CLX is trading above our estimate of fair value.


Key Valuation Metric

Which metric is best to use when looking at relative valuation for CLX?

Key metric: As CLX is profitable we use its Price-To-Earnings Ratio for relative valuation analysis.

The above table shows the Price to Earnings ratio for CLX. This is calculated by dividing CLX's market cap by their current earnings.
What is CLX's PE Ratio?
PE Ratio47.6x
EarningsUS$435.00m
Market CapUS$20.72b

Price to Earnings Ratio vs Peers

How does CLX's PE Ratio compare to its peers?

The above table shows the PE ratio for CLX vs its peers. Here we also display the market cap and forecasted growth for additional consideration.
CompanyForward PEEstimated GrowthMarket Cap
Peer Average28x
ESSITY B Essity
17.3x8.8%SEK 204.4b
CHD Church & Dwight
47.3x18.2%US$26.0b
8113 Unicharm
27.5x10.4%JP¥2.3t
HEN3 Henkel KGaA
19.8x6.5%€32.7b
CLX Clorox
47.6x18.9%US$20.7b

Price-To-Earnings vs Peers: CLX is expensive based on its Price-To-Earnings Ratio (47.6x) compared to the peer average (39.6x).


Price to Earnings Ratio vs Industry

How does CLX's PE Ratio compare vs other companies in the Global Household Products Industry?

2 CompaniesPrice / EarningsEstimated GrowthMarket Cap
CLX 47.6xIndustry Avg. 17.1xNo. of Companies17PE01632486480+
2 CompaniesEstimated GrowthMarket Cap
No more companies

Price-To-Earnings vs Industry: CLX is expensive based on its Price-To-Earnings Ratio (47.6x) compared to the Global Household Products industry average (20.6x).


Price to Earnings Ratio vs Fair Ratio

What is CLX's PE Ratio compared to its Fair PE Ratio? This is the expected PE Ratio taking into account the company's forecast earnings growth, profit margins and other risk factors.

CLX PE Ratio vs Fair Ratio.
Fair Ratio
Current PE Ratio47.6x
Fair PE Ration/a

Price-To-Earnings vs Fair Ratio: Insufficient data to calculate CLX's Price-To-Earnings Fair Ratio for valuation analysis.


Analyst Price Targets

What is the analyst 12-month forecast and do we have any statistical confidence in the consensus price target?

Analyst Forecast: Insufficient data to show price forecast.


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Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

DataLast Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis2023/05/03 12:14
End of Day Share Price 2023/02/03 00:00
Earnings2022/12/31
Annual Earnings2022/06/30

Data Sources

The data used in our company analysis is from S&P Global Market Intelligence LLC. The following data is used in our analysis model to generate this report. Data is normalised which can introduce a delay from the source being available.

PackageDataTimeframeExample US Source *
Company Financials10 years
  • Income statement
  • Cash flow statement
  • Balance sheet
Analyst Consensus Estimates+3 years
  • Forecast financials
  • Analyst price targets
Market Prices30 years
  • Stock prices
  • Dividends, Splits and Actions
Ownership10 years
  • Top shareholders
  • Insider trading
Management10 years
  • Leadership team
  • Board of directors
Key Developments10 years
  • Company announcements

* example for US securities, for non-US equivalent regulatory forms and sources are used.

Unless specified all financial data is based on a yearly period but updated quarterly. This is known as Trailing Twelve Month (TTM) or Last Twelve Month (LTM) Data. Learn more here.

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Analyst Sources

The Clorox Company is covered by 43 analysts. 16 of those analysts submitted the estimates of revenue or earnings used as inputs to our report. Analysts submissions are updated throughout the day.

AnalystInstitution
John StaszakArgus Research Company
Edward LewisAtlantic Equities LLP
Ishan MajumdarBaptista Research