The Clorox Company (CLX) earnings on April 30, 2026
More The Clorox Company earnings
Prior outlook: Pessimistic Outcome: Accurate
CLX shares dropped sharply after reporting earnings, falling as much as 10.84% during the day and closing 9.66% lower. Market expectations were already negative ahead of the results.
CLX price around the earnings
87.16
Change: -9.7%
2026-05-01, 19:59 UTC
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Prior thesis
Prior outlook: Pessimistic Outcome: Accurate
- Thesis published
Analysts cautious — risk outweighs reward.
Experts are lowering their expectations and price targets for this stock due to negative trends. Its past performance in earnings has been inconsistent.
Context analyzed before publication
- Summary
- Analysts cautious — risk outweighs reward.
- Playbook
- Analysts point to a more pessimistic than optimistic scenario; the stock is market review near recent lows.
- Trend
- Analyst outlook deteriorating over past two sessions.
Analysts
Drivers
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Analysts
Negative
Major financial firms have recently downgraded their rating on the stock and reduced their price expectations.
Evidence
- Analyst consensus
- Hold
- Consensus average (1-5)
- 3.11
- Analysts covering the stock
- 17
- Average price target
- 117.71
- Lowest price target
- 94
- Highest price target
- 163
- Upside to price target
- 18.2%
- Quarterly earnings growth
- -18.7%
- Revenue growth
- -0.8%
- Forward EPS
- 6.69
- Trailing EPS
- 6.11
- Analyst moves in the last 60 days
- 8
- Strong buy: 0
- Buy: 2
- Hold: 13
- Sell: 2
- Strong sell: 2
- Strong buy
- 0
- Buy
- 2
- Hold
- 13
- Sell
- 2
- Strong sell
- 2
- April 21, 2026 · Jefferies: Maintains rating (Buy → Buy)
- April 17, 2026 · JP Morgan: Downgrades rating (Neutral → Underweight)
- April 15, 2026 · Citigroup: Maintains rating (Neutral → Neutral)
- April 15, 2026 · Barclays: Maintains rating (Underweight → Underweight)
- April 14, 2026 · Barclays: Maintains rating (Underweight → Underweight)
- April 8, 2026 · Wells Fargo: Maintains rating (Equal-Weight → Equal-Weight)
- April 7, 2026 · UBS: Maintains rating (Neutral → Neutral)
- March 30, 2026 · Deutsche Bank: Maintains rating (Hold → Hold)
News and sentiment
Drivers
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News & sentiment
Negative
Recent news is dominated by analyst downgrades, creating a negative market feeling that is opposite to what individual investors are expressing online.
Evidence
Sentiment
- Sentiment
- Constructive
- Mention volume
- Low
- Normalized volume
- 33%
News
Sources (9)
- Jefferies Maintains Buy on Clorox, Lowers Price Target to $139 — Benzinga
- JP Morgan Downgrades Clorox to Underweight, Lowers Price Target to $99 — Benzinga
- Citigroup Maintains Neutral on Clorox, Lowers Price Target to $110 — Benzinga
- Barclays Maintains Underweight on Clorox, Lowers Price Target to $102 — Benzinga
- Wells Fargo Maintains Equal-Weight on Clorox, Lowers Price Target to $110 — Benzinga
- UBS Maintains Neutral on Clorox, Lowers Price Target to $110 — Benzinga
- Deutsche Bank Maintains Hold on Clorox, Lowers Price Target to $101 — Benzinga
- What's Helping Boost The Sentiment In Clorox Stock Today? — Benzinga
- Live On CNBC, Jenny Harrington Announces Bought Clorox — Benzinga
Technicals
Drivers
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Technical
Negative
The stock's recent performance shows a significant downward trend over the past month, and it has not kept pace with the broader market.
Evidence
- Average true range (ATR)
- 3.2%
- Distance to 52-week high
- -30.8%
- 14-day change (14d)
- -4.5%
- 30-day change
- -14.1%
- 30-day relative strength
- -17.8%
- Benchmark change
- +3.8%
- Nearest support
- 99.39
- Nearest resistance
- 116.73
- Volume accumulation ratio
- 1.11
Trends
Evidence
- Average earnings surprise
- +7.3%
- February 3, 2026: actual EPS 1.39 vs estimate 1.43 (surprise -3.0%)
- November 3, 2025: actual EPS 0.85 vs estimate 0.78 (surprise +9.2%)
- July 31, 2025: actual EPS 2.87 vs estimate 2.21 (surprise +29.8%)
- May 5, 2025: actual EPS 1.45 vs estimate 1.56 (surprise -6.9%)
Expected move
Drivers
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Past earnings
Negative
The company has met earnings expectations only half the time, and recently reported earnings that were lower than expected.
There is no implied-move data available for this event.
Reactions over its last 19 earnings
- Median move
- 5.6%
- 75th percentile move
- 7.3%
- 90th percentile move
- 9.6%
- Up / down moves
- 11 / 8
- Average up move
- +4.7%
- Average down move
- -6.5%
Monitoring and close
What The Clorox Company reported
There is no monitoring data available for this event.
Pre-market second reading after the results
There is no second reading available for this event.
How the stock reacted
- Outcome
- Accurate
- Consolidated
- -9.7%
- Max favorable move (MFE)
- 10.8%
- Max adverse move (MAE)
- 0%