Household products company Church & Dwight (NYSE: CHD) will be reporting results this Friday before the bell. Here’s what you need to know.

Church & Dwight beat analysts’ revenue expectations by 3.3% last quarter, reporting revenues of $1.59 billion, up 5% year on year. It was a strong quarter for the company, with a solid beat of analysts’ EBITDA estimates and a solid beat of analysts’ revenue estimates.

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This quarter, analysts are expecting Church & Dwight’s revenue to grow 3.7% year on year to $1.64 billion, in line with the 3.5% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $0.83 per share.

Analysts covering the company have generally reconfirmed their estimates over the last 30 days, suggesting they anticipate the business to stay the course heading into earnings. Church & Dwight has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates twice over the last two years.

Looking at Church & Dwight’s peers in the household products segment, some have already reported their Q4 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Procter & Gamble delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 1.5%, meeting analysts’ expectations, and Kimberly-Clark reported flat revenue, in line with consensus estimates. Procter & Gamble traded up 2.8% following the results while Kimberly-Clark was down 1.5%.

Read our full analysis of Procter & Gamble’s results here and Kimberly-Clark’s results here.

There has been positive sentiment among investors in the household products segment, with share prices up 5.2% on average over the last month. Church & Dwight is up 7.8% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $96.05 (compared to the current share price of $91.90).

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