With 2.55 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 2.39 million shares. During the session, the Packaging & Containers company that operates in wider Consumer Cyclical sector, reached to the highest price of $26.82 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $26.305. The 52-week range on GPK shows that it touched its highest point at $30.70 and its lowest point at $23.47 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $32.54. With its current market cap of 7.97 billion, GPK has annualized dividend of $0.40 while the current yield stands at 1.51%. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.86.
Price Performance and Earnings:
Stock performance is one of the indicators that investors use to determine whether they will profit from a stock. The price performance of GPK was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -2.14%, but this was down by -9.14% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -7.11% while six-month performance rose 4.74%. The stock gained 3.11% in the past year, while it has lost -2.28% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for GPK yields 2.33 with Next year EPS estimates of 2.68. For the next quarter, that number is 0.63. This implies an EPS growth rate of -13.23% for this year and 6.07% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 16.00% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 26.82%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 300.14 million GPK shares are outstanding with a float of 296.49 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-12-13, short shares totaled 20.16 million, which was 672.0 higher than short shares on 1731628800. In addition to Mr. Michael P. Doss as the firm’s President, CEO & Director, Mr. Stephen R. Scherger serves as its Executive VP & CFO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 1.07617 of GPK’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.
An Overview of Recent Financials:
Understanding a company as a customer does not mean you will understand it as an investor. The wise investor uses quantitative research to analyze metrics such as revenue, net income, and earnings. In its fiscal quarter reported on 2024-09-30, GPK reported revenue of $2216000000.0 and operating income of $294000000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $432000000.0 and diluted EPS was $0.55.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for GPK since 8 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 8 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 0 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 0 give it an OVERWEIGHT rating, and 0 thinks that it’s UNDERWEIGHT. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With GPK analysts setting a high price target of 36.8 and a low target of 27.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 32.53636. Based on these targets, GPK could surge 38.66% to reach the target high and rise by 1.73% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 22.59% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $2.52638 being high and $2.47665 being low. For GPK, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $2.50649.
