Graphic Packaging Holding Co (NYSE:GPK)’s traded shares stood at 4.24 million during the latest session, with the company’s beta value hitting 0.82. At the last check today, the stock’s price was $21.65, to imply a decrease of -14.48% or -$3.66 in intraday trading. The GPK share’s 52-week high remains $30.70, putting it -41.8% down since that peak but still an impressive -6.33% since price per share fell to its 52-week low of $23.02. The company has a valuation of $6.53B, with an average of 2.26 million shares in intraday trading volume over the past 10 days and average of 2.73 million shares over the past 3 months.
Analysts have given a consensus recommendation of Buy for Graphic Packaging Holding Co (GPK), translating to a mean rating of 1.92. Of 8 analyst(s) looking at the stock, 0 analyst(s) give GPK a Sell rating. 0 of those analysts rate the stock as Overweight while 0 advise Hold as 8 recommend it as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) have given it an Underweight rating. Estimates put the company’s current-quarter earnings per share at 0.59.
Graphic Packaging Holding Co (NYSE:GPK) trade information
After registering a -14.48% downside in the latest session, Graphic Packaging Holding Co (GPK) has traded red over the past five days. The 5-day price performance for the stock is -14.55%, and -17.45% over 30 days. With these gigs, the year-to-date price performance is -20.31%. Short interest in Graphic Packaging Holding Co (NYSE:GPK) saw shorts transact 17.85 million shares and set a 5.99 days time to cover.
The extremes give us $28 and $28 for target low and target high price respectively. As such, GPK has been trading -29.33% off suggested target high and -29.33% from its likely low.
Graphic Packaging Holding Co (GPK) estimates and forecasts
The rating firms project that company’s revenue will shrink -1.55% compared to the previous financial year.
Revenue forecast for the current quarter as set by 8 analysts is 2.18B. Meanwhile, for the current quarter, a total of 8 analyst(s) estimate revenue growth to 2.21B.Earnings reports from the last fiscal year show that sales brought in 2.24B and 2.22B respectively in the corresponding quarters. In this case, analysts estimate current quarter sales to fall -2.51% before dropping -0.10% in the following quarter.
An assessment of the company’s 5-year growth patterns shows that annual earnings grew an estimated 25.19% for the past 5-year period. While 2025 is set for a 0.51% return in earnings, projections for the next 5 years are at 5.45% annually.
GPK Dividends
Graphic Packaging Holding Co has its next earnings report out on 2025-Feb-03. However, it is important to take into account that this dividend yield ratio is just an indicator to only serve the purpose of guidance. Investors interested to invest in the stock should ponder company’s other fundamental and operations related aspects too. Graphic Packaging Holding Co has a forward dividend ratio of 0.41, with the share yield ticking at 1.89% to continue the rising pattern observed over the past year. The company’s average dividend yield trailing the past 5-year period is 1.59%.
Graphic Packaging Holding Co (NYSE:GPK)’s Major holders
Graphic Packaging Holding Co insiders hold 1.40% of total outstanding shares, with institutional holders owning 108.82% of the shares at 110.37% float percentage. In total, 108.82% institutions holds shares in the company, led by VANGUARD GROUP INC. As of 2024-06-30, the company held over 30.27 million shares (or 9.9034% of shares), all amounting to roughly $793.5 million.
The next major institution holding the largest number of shares is BLACKROCK INC. with 29.92 million shares, or about 9.7873% of shares outstanding. As of the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were worth $784.2 million.
We also have ALLSPRING FUNDS TRUST-Allspring Special Mid Cap Value Fund and iShares Trust-iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap ETF as the top two Mutual Funds with the largest holdings of the Graphic Packaging Holding Co (GPK) shares. Going by data provided on Feb 28, 2025 , ALLSPRING FUNDS TRUST-Allspring Special Mid Cap Value Fund holds roughly 12.91 shares. This is just over 4.28% of the total shares, with a market valuation of $279.18 million. Data from the same date shows that the other fund manager holds a little less at 9.81, or 3.25% of the shares, all valued at about 212.1 million.
