Campbell Soup (NYSE:CPB) Given Media Sentiment Rating of 0.14

News headlines about Campbell Soup (NYSE:CPB) have been trending somewhat positive recently, Accern Sentiment Analysis reports. The research group scores the sentiment of media coverage by reviewing more than twenty million news and blog sources in real-time. Accern ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of -1 to 1, with scores nearest to one being the most favorable. Campbell Soup earned a media sentiment score of 0.14 on Accern’s scale. Accern also assigned media stories about the company an impact score of 46.1886496795778 out of 100, indicating that recent media coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the stock’s share price in the next few days.

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Here are some of the news articles that may have effected Accern’s rankings:

Competing with Blue Apron is tough, but this Brooklyn entrepreneur found a way – New York Business Journal (bizjournals.com)
Head to Head Analysis: Campbell Soup (NYSE:CPB) versus Hershey Company (The) (HSY) (americanbankingnews.com)
[$$] Food Fight: Brands Clash Over Nutrition Facts Labels (finance.yahoo.com)
Campbell Soup Company (CPB) with 2.65% Yield: Dividend Stock … – Voice Of Analysts (analystsbuzz.com)
Trading Review Focus on Campbell Soup Co (CPB) – Berry Recorder (berryrecorder.com)

A number of equities analysts have recently weighed in on CPB shares. Wells Fargo & Company reissued a “market perform” rating and issued a $58.00 price target (down from $62.50) on shares of Campbell Soup in a report on Tuesday, May 23rd. Credit Suisse Group reissued a “sell” rating on shares of Campbell Soup in a report on Wednesday, May 24th. Piper Jaffray Companies began coverage on Campbell Soup in a report on Wednesday, May 24th. They issued a “neutral” rating and a $59.00 price target for the company. BidaskClub lowered Campbell Soup from a “sell” rating to a “strong sell” rating in a research note on Saturday, June 24th. Finally, J P Morgan Chase & Co reiterated a “neutral” rating and issued a $55.00 target price (down from $60.00) on shares of Campbell Soup in a research note on Wednesday, June 28th. Seven investment analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, ten have issued a hold rating and one has assigned a buy rating to the company’s stock. The stock has a consensus rating of “Hold” and a consensus price target of $57.24.

Campbell Soup (CPB) traded up 0.25% on Friday, reaching $53.14. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 939,432 shares. The firm has a market capitalization of $16.10 billion, a PE ratio of 33.55 and a beta of 0.34. The stock’s 50 day moving average is $52.93 and its 200-day moving average is $57.39. Campbell Soup has a 52 week low of $50.62 and a 52 week high of $64.23.

Campbell Soup (NYSE:CPB) last released its earnings results on Friday, May 19th. The company reported $0.59 earnings per share for the quarter, missing analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.64 by $0.05. Campbell Soup had a return on equity of 59.83% and a net margin of 6.17%. The firm had revenue of $1.85 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.87 billion. During the same period last year, the business earned $0.65 earnings per share. The firm’s quarterly revenue was down .9% compared to the same quarter last year. Analysts predict that Campbell Soup will post $3.05 EPS for the current year.

The company also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Monday, July 31st. Stockholders of record on Thursday, July 13th were paid a $0.35 dividend. This represents a $1.40 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 2.64%. The ex-dividend date was Tuesday, July 11th. Campbell Soup’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is currently 88.05%.

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About Campbell Soup

Campbell Soup Company is a food company, which manufactures and markets food products. The Company’s segments include Americas Simple Meals and Beverages; Global Biscuits and Snacks, and Campbell Fresh. The Americas Simple Meals and Beverages segment includes the retail and food service channel businesses.