Procter & Gamble (PG) Stock Price, Fundamentals & Analysis

What PG does

Procter & Gamble (PG) is a consumer staples company that sells branded household and personal care products worldwide. It operates through five segments: Beauty; Grooming; Health Care; Fabric & Home Care; and Baby, Feminine & Family Care. You can find its products under brands such as Head & Shoulders, Pantene, Olay, Gillette, Crest, Oral-B, Metamucil, and Vicks. The company is part of the S&P 500 and is often compared with peers like Philip Morris International (PM), Colgate-Palmolive (CL), and Estée Lauder Companies (The) (EL).

Key numbers explained

• 147.39 USD is the current share price, which is the amount you would pay for one share right now.
• The trailing P/E ratio of 22.2 shows how much investors pay per dollar of the company's last 12 months of earnings; a lower number can suggest a cheaper valuation relative to earnings.
• The forward P/E ratio of 19.9 uses expected future earnings, giving a sense of how the market prices in growth.
• 6.63 USD is the earnings per share (EPS) over the last 12 months, representing the portion of profit allocated to each share.
• The dividend yield of 2.94% tells you the annual dividend payment as a percentage of the current share price.
• 64% is the share of earnings paid out as dividends, indicating how much of the company's profit goes to shareholders versus being reinvested.
• 0.38 is the beta, meaning the stock tends to move less than the overall market, which can signal lower volatility.
• The price-to-book ratio of 6.42 compares the market price to the company's book value per share.

Recent news

Recent headlines discuss how premium pricing affects tech brand buyers, P&G's science-led push with Head & Shoulders and Oral-B iO, a 1.45% stock move, a comparison of PG versus CL for market position, and a look at beaten-down dividend kings expected to recover in 2027.

What to watch

Investors typically watch consumer staples stocks like PG for changes in consumer spending, raw material costs, currency fluctuations, and competitive pressure from peers such as Kroger (KR), Keurig Dr Pepper (KDP), and Hormel Foods (HRL). The next earnings report on Oct 22, 2026 will be a key date for updated financials.