Vandita Jadeja
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Quick Read
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Procter & Gamble (PG) earns a BUY and a $184 price target, about 10% upside, after an earnings beat lifted shares near their 52-week high.
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Colgate-Palmolive matches P&G’s forward multiple but grows slower, while Kimberly-Clark trades cheaper yet sees sales fall and takes on Kenvue debt.
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Oil-driven commodity costs threaten margins, with $1.4 billion in input-cost pressure, though productivity savings and price increases could offset the hit.
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Procter & Gamble (NYSE:PG) closed at $167.67 on November 11. The 24/7 Wall St. price target for P&G is $183.79 over the next 12 months, meaning 9.61% upside. The stock wins a buy rating from the model, and our confidence is high.
24/7 Wall St. Price Target Summary
Our target sits above the consensus analyst target of $174.04.
P&G pays investors while they wait: 70 straight years of dividend increases (a run that puts it in rare company, the same club we ranked by valuation in a free Dividend Kings report), 136 consecutive years of payments, and a forward dividend of $4.354 per share, which works out to roughly a 2.6% yield. Its beta of 0.36 marks P&G as one of the steadiest mega-caps in the market.
October Earnings Beat Pushes P&G Toward Its 52-Week High
Shares have gained 10.19% over the past month and 20.37% year to date, though they were nearly flat over the past week (0.21%). That leaves the stock about 1.7% below its 52-week high of $170.52 and roughly 25.4% off its low of $133.74.
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The quarter that drove the rally was fiscal Q1 2027. Core EPS came in at $2 against a consensus of $1.89, and net sales of $23.276 billion exceeded the $22.817 billion estimate. Organic sales rose 4%, which is above the full-year guidance range, and all five segments grew. P&G also closed its acquisition of Thorne on October 1, 2026 and has an Investor Day set for November 19.
