secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     CHURCH & DWIGHT CO INC /DE/ (CHD)
CIK:        0000313927
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2024-11-01T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0000950170-24-119799
Event type: earnings
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.80
Item codes: 2.02, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Church & Dwight Q3 adj. EPS $0.79 beats outlook; vitamin impairment drives reported loss
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- Q3 net sales $1,510.6M (+3.8%); organic sales +4.3% led by volume (+3.1%).
- Adjusted EPS $0.79 vs. outlook of $0.67; reported loss per share -$0.31 from $357M vitamin impairment charge.
- Domestic organic +3.3%, International +8.1%, SPD +7.5%; marketing spend +80bps to 12.3% of sales.
- Full-year adj. EPS growth reaffirmed at +8%; gross margin expansion raised to +110bps; cash from ops ~$1.1B.
- Q4 outlook: organic sales +2-3%, adj. EPS $0.76 (+17% YoY); cautious on US consumer.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/313927/000095017024119799/0000950170-24-119799-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/313927/000095017024119799/chd-20241101.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-24-119799

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