The Bid & Ask

Quotations, Dispatches, and the Daily Tape

Thursday, August 13, 2026

Subject of the day

CLX

Concerning the House

The Clorox Company manufactures and markets consumer and professional products worldwide. The company operates through four segments: Health and Wellness, Household, Lifestyle, and International. The Health and Wellness segment offers home care cleaning and disinfecting products, bleach, clog removers, and laundry additives under the Clorox, Clorox2, Pine-Sol, Scentiva, Tilex, Liquid-Plumr, Poett, and Formula 409 brands; professional cleaning and disinfecting products under the CloroxPro and Clorox Healthcare brands; professional food service products under the Hidden Valley brand in the United States. The Household segment provides cat litter products under the Fresh Step and Scoop Away brands; bags and wraps under the Glad brand; and grilling products under the Kingsford brand in the United States. The Lifestyle segment offers dressings, dips, seasonings, and sauces primarily under the Hidden Valley brand; water-filtration products under the Brita brand; and natural personal care products under the Burt's Bees brand in the United States. The International segment provides laundry additives, home care products, bags and wraps, cat litter products, water-filtration systems, professional cleaning and disinfecting products, natural personal care products, food, grilling products, and digestive health products internationally primarily under the Clorox, Glad, Poett, Brita, Burt's Bees, Pine-Sol, Ever Clean, Clorinda, Chux and Fresh Step Brands. It also offers vitamins, minerals, and supplement products under the Natural Vitality, RenewLife, NeoCell, and Rainbow Light brands. The company sells its products through mass retailers; grocery outlets; warehouse clubs; dollar stores; home hardware centers; drug, pet, and military stores; third-party and owned e-commerce channels; and distributors, as well as a direct sales force. The company was founded in 1913 and is headquartered in Oakland, California.

United States · www.thecloroxcompany.com

The Long Run

FY 2010–2025 · 16 years

LineLatestCAGRTrend
Revenue$7.10B+11.5%
Gross profit$3.21B+2.6%
Net income$149.00M-8.9%
Cash from ops$1.16B+2.3%
Quotation

$106.54

+0.78 (+0.7%)

52w hi$124.13
52w lo$85.13
Vol3.83M
As ofAug 13
The Verdict

Hold

Our score -0.03

Short+0.45
Medium-0.25
Long-0.56

computed 2026-08-13

By the Numbers

The Clorox Company

Consumer Defensive · Household & Personal Products

Market cap$12.88B
Enterprise value$18.41B
Trailing P/E22.15x
Forward P/E16.74x
EV / EBITDA16.15x
P / S (ttm)1.92x
Profit margin8.7%
Return on equity163.8%
Revenue growth-2.0%
Earnings growth-50.1%
Debt / equity2221.43
Risk Metrics
Beta vs SPX0.22
Corr SPX0.14
Annual vol26.2%
Annual ret-11.7%
Sharpe-0.45
Max DD-49.3%

Window: 504 trading days (504 obs)

Layer Breakdown
LayerRawContribution
Fundamental+0.05
Sector+0.02
Technical-0.02
Earnings+0.00
Sentiment+0.55

macro × 1.00 · 2026-08-13

Recent Sessions
DateOpenHighLowCloseVol
Aug 13$106.13$107.45$104.45$106.543.83M
Aug 12$106.00$107.02$105.34$105.762.01M
Aug 11$106.70$108.60$106.44$108.252.55M
Aug 10$104.84$108.06$104.15$107.703.55M
Aug 7$105.93$107.09$104.77$105.152.04M