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AI brief of an SEC Form 8-K · Church & Dwight (CHD)

Church & Dwight Q1 sales rise 5.1%, EPS $0.93; raises full-year adjusted EPS outlook

Positive Impact 4 of 5 earnings Written later

Church & Dwight reported first-quarter 2024 net sales of $1,503.3 million, up 5.1%, with reported EPS of $0.93 and adjusted EPS of $0.96, above its $0.85 adjusted outlook. The company raised its full-year 2024 adjusted EPS growth expectation to 8% to 9% and its cash flow outlook to approximately $1.05 billion, but guided second-quarter adjusted EPS of $0.83, down 9.8% from the prior year.

Key points

  • Q1 2024 net sales rose 5.1% to $1,503.3 million; reported EPS was $0.93, up 13.4%, and adjusted EPS was $0.96, up 12.9%.
  • Full-year 2024 adjusted EPS growth outlook raised to 8% to 9%, from 7% to 9% previously; gross margin expansion raised to approximately 75 basis points.
  • Full-year cash flow from operations now expected at approximately $1.05 billion, up from $1.0 billion previously.
  • Q2 2024 adjusted EPS expected at $0.83 versus $0.92 in Q2 2023, with a higher tax rate of 24%.

The filing

CompanyChurch & Dwight (CHD)
Form8-K, current report
Filed with the SECMay 2, 2024, 7:06 AM ET
Accession number0000950170-24-051562

Items reported: 2.02 Results of Operations

Read the filing on SEC.gov ↗

Written by AI (Anthropic Claude, claude-haiku-5-5) on Nov 8, 2026, 1:10 AM ET, from the text of the filing and its press-release exhibits only. Written later: this filing was briefed after the fact, when past filings were added to the site, so the brief may be read with hindsight; the filing itself is the record of what was known on May 02, 2024.

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