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6. The Clorox Company (NYSE:CLX)

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The Clorox Company (NYSE:CLX) is a consumer products firm that makes and sells disinfectants, laundry care products, personal care items, and associated goods. Its shares are down by 3.4% over the past year and would have been up by 3.9% had it not been for a 7% drop in February. The Clorox Company (NYSE:CLX)’s shares dipped after the firm warned about inflationary and tariff-related risks to its bottom line. The stock fell despite the fact that the firm increased its 2025 EPS forecast to $6.95 to $7.35 from an earlier $6.65 to $6.90. Cramer skillfully dissected The Clorox Company (NYSE:CLX)’s earnings report:

“Look at Clorox, okay. I mean Clorox is a good company, right. But, you get in an every single, every single line is down! I mean it’s really incredible, how the stock, the company, you know, look, the gross margins were good, health and wellness down 13%. Household’s down 11%. Lifestyle down 16%. International down 12%. They break up their partnership with Procter & Gamble over Glad bags, that’s just bad. It’s a bad quarter. And you know don’t want to sugar coat it, I mean, there are companies that are just doing, that are underperforming rather radically.”

“[on guidance increase through shifting 2026 business into current year] You gotta be really careful with some of these cause you think that you’re good. And it turns out that what they’re doing is, they’re not disguising. They’re just doing things that are making it so that their numbers look little better than expected. And they’re not.”