Newell Brands (NASDAQ:NWL) Issues FY 2025 Earnings Guidance

Newell Brands (NASDAQ:NWL) issued an update on its FY 2025 earnings guidance on Friday morning. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of 0.700-0.760 for the period, compared to the consensus estimate of 0.750. The company issued revenue guidance of $7.3 billion-$7.4 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $7.6 billion. Newell Brands also updated its Q1 2025 guidance to -0.090–0.060 EPS.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

Several research analysts recently weighed in on NWL shares. Barclays boosted their target price on shares of Newell Brands from $10.00 to $11.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a research note on Friday, January 17th. UBS Group raised their target price on shares of Newell Brands from $9.50 to $10.50 and gave the stock a “neutral” rating in a research report on Thursday, January 16th. Canaccord Genuity Group boosted their price target on Newell Brands from $13.00 to $15.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a report on Friday, December 6th. JPMorgan Chase & Co. raised their price objective on Newell Brands from $9.00 to $10.00 and gave the stock a “neutral” rating in a report on Thursday, January 16th. Finally, Truist Financial upgraded Newell Brands from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating and upped their target price for the company from $10.00 to $17.00 in a research note on Monday, December 9th. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, seven have issued a hold rating and three have given a buy rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, the stock currently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and an average target price of $10.70.

Newell Brands Trading Down 26.4 %

Shares of NWL stock opened at $7.13 on Friday. The company has a quick ratio of 0.50, a current ratio of 0.99 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.43. Newell Brands has a fifty-two week low of $5.39 and a fifty-two week high of $11.78. The firm’s 50 day moving average price is $10.15 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $8.68. The stock has a market cap of $2.97 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of -11.88, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.09 and a beta of 0.89.

Newell Brands (NASDAQ:NWL) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Friday, February 7th. The company reported $0.16 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.14 by $0.02. Newell Brands had a positive return on equity of 10.22% and a negative net margin of 3.22%. During the same period in the prior year, the company posted $0.22 earnings per share. On average, analysts anticipate that Newell Brands will post 0.65 EPS for the current year.

Newell Brands Dividend Announcement

The company also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Friday, December 13th. Stockholders of record on Friday, November 29th were paid a $0.07 dividend. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Friday, November 29th. This represents a $0.28 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 3.93%. Newell Brands’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is presently -46.67%.

Insider Buying and Selling

In other Newell Brands news, insider Tracy L. Platt sold 23,343 shares of the stock in a transaction on Friday, December 6th. The shares were sold at an average price of $10.31, for a total transaction of $240,666.33. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which can be accessed through the SEC website. 0.58% of the stock is currently owned by insiders.

Newell Brands Company Profile

Newell Brands Inc engages in the design, manufacture, sourcing, and distribution of consumer and commercial products worldwide. The company operates in three segments: Home and Commercial Solutions, Learning and Development, and Outdoor and Recreation. The Commercial Solutions segment provides commercial cleaning and maintenance solution products under the Rubbermaid, Rubbermaid Commercial Products, Mapa, and Spontex brands; closet and garage organization products; hygiene systems and material handling solutions; household products, such as kitchen appliances under the Crockpot, Mr.