Sentiment · FY2026 Q3
What companies say about each other on earnings calls — extracted verbatim from public transcripts. Mentions from the newest quarter are a Pro feature.
“Tyson Foods was the only food company in consumer staples growing volume and dollar share in the most recent report. The only other one was P&G, which is not in the food space.”
Tyson cites P&G as the only other consumer-staples company growing both volume and dollar share, an implied positive read-through on P&G's share momentum.
“we're going to be exceeding our contractual agreements we have with P&G this coming January, right? And so essentially, we will repurchase 20% of that P&G currently own, and we'd probably finance that through a mix of cash and borrowing.”
Clorox is buying out P&G's remaining 20% stake in the Glad joint venture in January 2026, eliminating a quarterly royalty payment to P&G worth roughly 50 basis points of annual gross margin.
“the dynamics at play at Costco, you know, given Proctor is now entering after decades of exclusivity for Huggies.”
Procter & Gamble is entering the Costco diaper category after decades of Huggies exclusivity, a competitive share gain for P&G at KMB's expense in the club channel.
“Proctor's coming out with Tide EVO. That does nothing but bring more awareness to a different form in the laundry category, fantastic. We are going to be a value to Tide EVO in a big way.”
Procter & Gamble is launching Tide EVO laundry sheets; Church & Dwight frames itself as the value alternative in the emerging sheet format.
“In the third quarter, we announced Procter & Gamble as an anchor tenant.”
Procter & Gamble signed on as an anchor tenant of Trimble's freight marketplace, bringing shipper freight spend onto the platform.
“Procter & Gamble talked about some exclusions on tariffs or some inputs.”
An analyst referenced P&G's commentary on tariff input exclusions as a benchmark for KMB's own tariff exposure; KMB confirmed some exclusions including Brazilian eucalyptus.
“we announced and launched our freight marketplace offering with Procter & Gamble as our anchor shipper customer.”
Procter & Gamble is the anchor shipper customer for Trimble's new freight marketplace, reflecting P&G's investment in supply-chain optimization technology.
“we will repurchase the 20% that P&G currently owns and we'll determine how to do that through cash or some form of borrowing. But then the other impact you'll see on our P&L is, this is what I describe as a contractual joint venture where we pay P&G 20% of the cash flows every quarter and we charge those cost of goods sold.”
Clorox is buying out P&G's remaining 20% stake in the Glad trash-bag joint venture as the long-standing agreement expires, ending the quarterly cash-flow-sharing arrangement between the two companies.
“Share gains have continued versus Procter seemingly in those categories just based on what they've had to say about those businesses.”
Analyst notes Kimberly-Clark's continued share gains versus competitor Procter & Gamble in personal care categories, based on P&G's own commentary.
“Amazon. You know, our data is showing that it's driving a disproportionate amount of the growth in your categories depending on category anywhere from 60 to 80% or so.”
An analyst notes Amazon is driving a disproportionate share (60-80%) of category growth for P&G's US business; management frames e-commerce as a channel where strong core items and premium innovation win, underscoring Amazon's growing importance as a retail customer.
“more than our 7 closest competitors, Unilever, Kenvue, Kimberly-Clark, Colgate, L'Oreal, Clorox, Reckitt Benckiser, combined, for the fifth consecutive year.”
P&G's count of top-25 Circana Pacesetters innovation launches exceeded the combined total of its 7 largest CPG rivals, including Clorox, for a fifth straight year.
“more than our 7 closest competitors, Unilever, Kenvue, Kimberly-Clark, Colgate, L'Oreal, Clorox, Reckitt Benckiser, combined, for the fifth consecutive year.”
P&G's count of top-25 Circana Pacesetters innovation launches exceeded the combined total of its 7 largest CPG rivals, including Colgate-Palmolive, for a fifth straight year.
“more than our 7 closest competitors, Unilever, Kenvue, Kimberly-Clark, Colgate, L'Oreal, Clorox, Reckitt Benckiser, combined, for the fifth consecutive year.”
P&G's count of top-25 Circana Pacesetters innovation launches exceeded the combined total of its 7 largest CPG rivals, including Kimberly-Clark, for a fifth straight year.
“more than our 7 closest competitors, Unilever, Kenvue, Kimberly-Clark, Colgate, L'Oreal, Clorox, Reckitt Benckiser, combined, for the fifth consecutive year.”
P&G's count of top-25 Circana Pacesetters innovation launches exceeded the combined total of its 7 largest CPG rivals, including Kenvue, for a fifth straight year.
“We continue to see strength in Walmart and Costco, in club in general, in Amazon.”
P&G continues to see sales strength through Amazon's online channel, part of the retail-channel shift toward faster-growing, more inventory-efficient retailers.
“We continue to see strength in Walmart and Costco, in club in general, in Amazon.”
P&G continues to see sales strength through Costco/club channel, part of the retail-channel shift toward larger, more inventory-efficient retailers.
“We continue to see strength in Walmart and Costco, in club in general, in Amazon.”
P&G continues to see sales strength through Walmart, part of the retail-channel shift toward larger, more inventory-efficient retailers.
“That's what we did when we purchased the German Merck portfolio of OTC products. We're very happy with that acquisition.”
P&G's acquisition of Merck KGaA's (the German pharma company, unrelated to U.S.-listed Merck & Co.) OTC products portfolio for Personal Health Care has paid off well, per management, and is cited as a model for future bolt-on M&A.
“Pantene was the number one hair care brand online ahead of Kerastase for the first time in the last quarter.”
P&G highlights that its Pantene brand overtook L'Oreal's Kerastase as the top online hair care brand in China for the first time, implying share loss for Kerastase in that channel.
“European consumer was particularly called out yesterday by Nestle, Latin America a bit less good.”
An analyst cites Nestle's remarks about a worsening European consumer environment as a comparison point when asking whether P&G's core markets are at risk of similar deceleration.
Procter & Gamble reported Q2 FY26 as the softest quarter of the fiscal year as expected, with organic sales in line with prior year and core EPS of $1.88 also in line. Family Care was down approximately 10%, the weakest category. Broad-based international acceleration provided a positive offset. CEO Shailesh Jejurikar introduced a reinvention framework. FY2026 guidance was maintained across organic sales, core EPS, and free cash flow. Margin compression reflected heavy reinvestment, and commodity headwinds were eliminated but offset by reduced FX tailwinds.
Demand | Competitive Dynamics | Pricing | Innovation & R&D | Geographic Expansion | Cost Pressure | Guidance Reliability | Trade Tariffs | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025Q2 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | |
| 2025Q3 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| 2025Q4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| 2026Q1 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 2 | |
| 2026Q2 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | |
| 2026Q3 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 1 |
| '25Q2 | '25Q3 | '25Q4 | '26Q1 | '26Q2 | '26Q3 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Demand | 7 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 6 |
| Competitive Dynamics | 2 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 7 |
| Pricing | 4 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 5 |
| Innovation & R&D | 4 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 2 |
| Geographic Expansion | 3 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 2 |
| Cost Pressure | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 |
| Guidance Reliability | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | |
| Trade Tariffs | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| Analyst | Firm | Questions (Challenge)Percentage of questions scored as challenging — where the analyst pushed back, pressed for specifics, or questioned management's assumptions. |
|---|---|---|
| Rob Ottenstein | Evercore ISI | 7 (0%) |
| Chris Carey | Wells Fargo | 7 (14%) |
| Olivia Tong | Raymond James |
| Steve Powers | Deutsche Bank | 7 (14%) |
| Dara Mohsenian | Morgan Stanley | 7 (0%) |
| Rob Moskow | TD Cowen | 7 (29%) |
| Kaumil Gajrawala | Jefferies | 7 (0%) |
| Lauren Lieberman | Barclays | 6 (17%) |
| Filippo Falorni | Citigroup | 6 (17%) |
| Andrea Teixeira | JPMorgan | 6 (0%) |
| Firm | Analysts | Questions (Challenge)Percentage of questions scored as challenging — where the analyst pushed back, pressed for specifics, or questioned management's assumptions. |
|---|---|---|
| Raymond James | 1 | 7 (0%) |
| Wells Fargo | 1 | 7 (14%) |
| Morgan Stanley | 1 | 7 (0%) |
| Deutsche Bank | 1 | 7 (14%) |
| Evercore ISI | 1 | 7 (0%) |
| TD Cowen | 1 | 7 (29%) |
| Jefferies | 1 | 7 (0%) |
| Bank of America | 2 | 6 (0%) |
| Company | Score | Trend | Rev YoY |
|---|---|---|---|
PG The Procter & Gamble Company | 5 | +7.4% | |
| CHD Church & Dwight | 6 | +0.1% | |
| CL Colgate-Palmolive | 7 | +8.4% | |
| CLX Clorox | 4 | +0.1% | |
| EL Estée Lauder Companies (The) | 9 | +4.6% | |
| KMB Kimberly-Clark | 5 | -14.0% | |
| KVUE Kenvue | 7 | +4.5% |