Clorox
The Clorox Company (NYSE: CLX) operates as a leading multinational manufacturer and marketer of consumer and professional products with fiscal year 2026 net sales of $6.7 billion. The company maintains operations across approximately 25 countries and territories, selling products in roughly 95 markets worldwide. As of… From the company’s description.
Margins and return on equity change in ; everything else in percent. Fewer shares and less debt are shown plainly, not as bad news — it depends what you make of buybacks. Dotted labels explain each measure.
What Clorox does
In the company’s own words
The Clorox Company (NYSE: CLX) operates as a leading multinational manufacturer and marketer of consumer and professional products with fiscal year 2026 net sales of $6.7 billion. The company maintains operations across approximately 25 countries and territories, selling products in roughly 95 markets worldwide. As of June 30, 2026, Clorox employed approximately 9,200 people globally, with 77 percent based in the United States and 23 percent working internationally.
The company's product portfolio spans four reportable segments: Health and Wellness, Household, Lifestyle, and International. Health and Wellness encompasses cleaning, disinfecting, sanitizing and professional products marketed in the United States, including the Clorox, Pine-Sol, Purell, CloroxPro, and Clorox Healthcare brands. The Household segment includes Glad bags and wraps, Fresh Step and Scoop Away cat litter, and Kingsford grilling products. Lifestyle comprises Hidden Valley food products, Brita water-filtration systems, and Burt's Bees natural personal care offerings. The International segment markets similar product categories outside the United States under brands including Poett, Clorinda, and Chux.
Clorox's major product categories include cleaning products representing 44 percent of consolidated net sales, bags and wraps at 15 percent, food products at 11 percent, and cat litter products at 10 percent. Over 80 percent of the company's sales derive from brands holding number one or number two market share positions in their respective categories. The company distributes products through mass retailers, grocery outlets, warehouse clubs, dollar stores, home hardware centers, and e-commerce channels. Walmart and its affiliates represent the company's largest customer, accounting for 26 percent of consolidated net sales.
In April 2026, Clorox completed its acquisition of GOJO Industries, expanding its portfolio to include the Purell brand and health and hygiene solutions while strengthening its presence in business-to-business channels including healthcare and institutional markets. The company was founded in Oakland, California in 1913 and maintains its principal research and development facility in Pleasanton, California. Additional information is available at TheCloroxCompany.com.
Company details
- Sector
- Consumer Staples
- Industry (SIC)
- Chemicals
- Headquarters
- OAKLAND, CA
- Fiscal year end
- June
- CIK
- 21076
- SIC
- 2842
Financial performance, year by year
Fiscal 2012–2026 · USDThe full income statement, balance sheet and cash flow for each of these years — every figure traceable to its filing — is on the Financials tab with a free account.
Who owns Clorox — and what changed
Funds as of 2026Q2 · superinvestors as of 2026-06-30
Superinvestors in Clorox · what they did last quarter
Share of each manager’s reported 13F portfolio. Change is in shares held, since the previous quarter.
Largest fund holders · Clorox’s weight in each
Fund ownership is a floor, not a census — pensions, insurers and people holding shares directly are not visible here.
Clorox’s bonds, as funds hold them
Funds report holding 12 issues of Clorox’s debt, $625.53M at market value — what funds hold, not the company’s total debt. Weighted-average coupon 4.26%, maturing 2026 to 2036.
Fund ownership counts N-PORT filers only, so it is a floor rather than a census — pensions, insurers and direct holders are not visible here, and the remainder is not “held by individuals”.
Fund ownership is a subset of institutional 13F ownership — the two describe overlapping populations and must not be added together.
Every fund and institutional holder, quarter by quarter, is on the Ownership tab with a free account.
Recent filings
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