Campbell Soup Company (CPB) is scheduled to release Q415 earnings today before the open. The Street is looking for EPS of $0.42 and revenue of $1.69 million. Last quarter, the Camden, New Jersey-based company posted a significant positive earnings surprise of 19.23%, reporting EPS of $0.62, $0.10 higher than the Street’s consensus estimate of $0.52. Revs however, fell 3.5% year-over-year to $1.9 billion versus the $1.97 billion reported. Meanwhile, EarningsWhisper.com reports a whisper number of $0.43 per share.
On valuation measures, Campbell Soup Co. shares are currently changing hands at 19.83x this year’s forecasted earnings, compared to the industry’s 20.53x earnings multiple. Ticker has a t-12 price/sales ratio of 1.77. EPS for the same period registers at $2.41.
Shares of Campbell Soup Co. recently traded between $47.01 and $47.77 with the price of the stock fluctuating between $41.15 to $50.80 over the last 52 weeks. The name has a current market cap of roughly $15 billion.
CPB traded as high as $50.80 in Aug. 17, 2015.
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