Forensic Analysis · Consumer Staples / Food & Beverage · as of Aug 8, 2026

Church & Dwight Co Inc /De/ (CHD)

A forensic read on Church & Dwight Co Inc /De/ built from its complete SEC filings — financial-health screens, earnings quality, red flags and a price-aware rating. Reproducible math, not opinion.

A · High-quality compounder

Forensic grade

Safe

Financial health

8.6

Distress distance

Clean

Earnings quality

Forensic signals

32.7

P / E (ttm)

18.4%

ROE

$24.5B

Market cap

1.19%

Dividend yield

1.6%

Revenue growth

This free snapshot doesn't read filing or proxy text, so the auditor-quality and governance checks that can lower a grade were not evaluated (red flags, auditor quality, say on pay, board independence). Those checks only ever lower a grade, so the full analysis can land below the grade above but never above it — treat it as the most favourable reading, not the settled one.

Church & Dwight Co Inc /De/ earns an A (High-quality compounder) forensic quality grade, and its balance-sheet distress test reads 8.6, placing it in the Safe zone. 3 forensic signals were flagged in its latest SEC filings, led by return on invested capital.

What the filings flag

11.8%

FY2025

Return on invested capital. Return on invested capital is 11.8% in the latest fiscal year and rising from 7% — a modest positive spread over its ~8% cost of capital — growth adds value, though not dramatically.

-0.3%/yr

FY2022–FY2025

Share count. Diluted share count changed -1% over the last 3 years to FY2025 (-0.3%/yr). Roughly flat — buybacks ($900M) are about offsetting stock comp ($58M), not shrinking the count. Per-share value isn't being meaningfully helped or hurt by the count.

109% of FCF

FY2025

Shareholder returns. Returned $1.2B to shareholders (buybacks + dividends) in FY2025 — 109% of free cash flow. Right at the limit of what free cash flow covers — little room before it's funded by debt or the balance sheet. That ratio has been CLIMBING toward the limit — 36% of free cash flow a few years back — not just sitting there. Counting the $58M of stock-based comp paid out in shares on top of that, the combined claim on free cash flow is 114%.

Key fundamentals

Latest Revenue$6.20B

Revenue Growth YoY+1.6%

Revenue CAGR (3yr)+4.9%

Net Margin11.9%

Free Cash Flow$1.09B

Return on Equity18.4%

Debt / Equity0.55x

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Data from SEC EDGAR public filings · metrics as of Aug 8, 2026. Forensic signals flag probability, not certainty.