Clorox Co
Clorox Co (CLX) is listed on NYSE and classified in Household & Personal Products, part of the Consumer Defensive sector. It is headquartered in Oakland, United States and has 9,200 employees. The company is worth $10.72B and trades at 18.4x its earnings of the last twelve months; the median for its sector is 18.2x. Revenue was $7.1B in fiscal 2025, up 0.2% from the year before. Net income was $810M. The share price is 31.2% below its 52-week high of $128.90. It pays a dividend yielding 5.64%, and has raised its annual dividend for 28 years in a row in our records. 6 of the 38 superinvestors we track held it at the end of Q2 2026. The largest position belongs to Israel Englander (Millennium Management), at $197.85M. In that quarter, 2 of them opened or added to the position and 3 reduced it. No open-market insider trades in it were filed over the last 30 days.
Written from the data on this page: SEC filings (13F, Form 4, annual reports) and market prices.
Year by year, from the annual reports; dividends from the payments themselves.
Bars are year-end balances; lines are what happened during the year.
Major managers that reported this stock in their latest 13F.
▼ -46.5% over 5Y.
today you would have $632.30▼ -36.8%
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
The last 18 closed years, each at that year’s closing price and reported numbers.
| Indicator | Median | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year-end price | $100.83 | $162.41 | $142.59 | $140.33 | $174.36 | $201.92 | $153.54 | $154.14 | $148.74 | $120.02 | $126.83 | $104.21 | $92.76 | $73.22 | $66.56 | $63.28 | $61.00 | $55.56 |
Seven formulas applied to the reported numbers, each with its assumption next to the result. None of them predicts a price.
Square root of 22.5 × earnings × book value. Blind to intangibles, so it undervalues software and brands.
Earnings growing 0.0% a year plus a 5.6% dividend yield. Growth capped at 25%.
Median P/E of 18.2 among peers in the sector.
Median P/E of 24.5 across this company’s own years on record.
Cash flow growing 5.0% a year for 10 years, discounted at 10%, then 2.5% forever.
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
Dividend growing 5.5% a year against a 7.0% required return, from the stock’s beta.
Companies of similar size in Consumer Defensive, for comparison. The columns are the same ones above, in the same order.
| Stock | Price | P/E | P/B | Dividend yield | ROE | Market cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MICCMagnum Ice Cream Co N.V. | $18.78 | 38.3x | 9.5x | 0.00% | 9.64% | $11.34B |
| HRLHormel Foods Corp | $21.36 | 34.5x | 1.5x | 5.48% | 4.29% | $11.76B |
| MKC.VMccormick & Co Inc | $46.88 | 8.5x | 1.8x | 4.10% | 22.62% | $12.61B |
| EDUNew Oriental Education & Technology Group Inc. |
| P/E | 24.5x | 15.5x | 72.2x | 118.8x | 37.6x | 31.2x | 27.4x | 24.3x | 24.6x | 27.9x | 24.4x | 29.0x | 24.6x | 21.6x | 17.9x | 16.6x | 14.9x | 16.1x | 17.2x |
| P/S | 2.4x | 1.7x | 2.8x | 2.4x | 2.4x | 2.9x | 3.8x | 3.1x | 3.2x | 3.2x | 2.7x | 2.9x | 2.4x | 2.2x | 1.7x | 1.7x | 1.7x | 1.6x | 1.5x |
| P/B | 52.2x | 38.4x | 61.3x | 80.3x | 31.1x | 52.1x | 28.1x | 34.5x | 27.2x | 35.4x | 52.3x | 138.3x | 87.2x | 82.9x | — | — | 105.8x | — | — |
| EPS | $6.52 | $2.25 | $1.20 | $3.73 | $5.58 | $7.36 | $6.32 | $6.26 | $5.33 | $4.92 | $4.37 | $4.23 | $4.30 | $4.09 | $4.02 | $4.24 | $3.79 | $3.23 |
| Dividend yield | 2.95% | 4.88% | 2.98% | 3.34% | 3.33% | 2.60% | 2.15% | 2.63% | 2.41% | 2.21% | 2.62% | 2.38% | 2.78% | 2.91% | 3.39% | 3.46% | 3.32% | 3.15% | 3.10% |
| Payout | 63.31% | 75.46% | 215.11% | 396.67% | 125.47% | 81.36% | 58.97% | 63.92% | 59.42% | 61.54% | 63.82% | 69.11% | 68.56% | 62.79% | 60.64% | 57.21% | 49.53% | 50.66% | 53.25% |
| Profit margin | 10.37% | 11.40% | 3.95% | 2.02% | 6.50% | 9.67% | 13.97% | 13.20% | 13.44% | 11.74% | 11.25% | 10.26% | 10.12% | 10.34% | 9.89% | 10.65% | 11.52% | 10.41% | 8.74% |
| ROE | 159.72% | 252.34% | 85.37% | 67.73% | 83.09% | 172.75% | 103.41% | 146.69% | 113.36% | 129.34% | 218.18% | 491.53% | 362.34% | 391.78% | — | — | 726.51% | — | — |
Median of the years shown; P/E years above 200x are left out.
The average of the method families that answered, not of the seven numbers: four of the seven start from the same earnings per share.
6 methods answered, across 3 families.
Room for errors in the reported numbers.
+84.0% from the average.
Models, not forecasts, and not investment advice. How each formula works →
| $58.68 |
| 19.8x |
| 2.3x |
| 1.02% |
| 12.48% |
| $9.1B |
| DARDarling Ingredients Inc | $55.64 | 15.0x | 1.7x | 0.00% | 12.13% | $8.78B |
| MKCMccormick & Co Inc | $48.71 | 8.8x | 1.9x | 3.94% | 22.62% | $13.11B |