With 0.15 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 0.2 million shares. During the session, the Packaging & Containers company that operates in wider Consumer Cyclical sector, reached to the highest price of $62.195 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $61.13. The 52-week range on GEF shows that it touched its highest point at $73.16 and its lowest point at $55.95 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $78.83. With its current market cap of 2.96 billion, GEF has annualized dividend of $2.12 while the current yield stands at 3.45%. GEF paid its most recent dividend on 1734307200, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1734307200. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.96.
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 GEF was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 5.88%, but this was down by -6.74% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -5.32% while six-month performance fell -3.94%. The stock lost -2.83% in the past year, while it has gained 0.52% so far this year. EPS is expected to grow by 8.11% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 9.89%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 25.85 million GEF shares are outstanding with a float of 25.23 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-11-15, short shares totaled 0.69 million, which was 120.0 higher than short shares on 1728950400. In addition to Mr. Ole G. Rosgaard as the firm’s President, CEO & Director, Mr. Lawrence Allen Hilsheimer J.D. serves as its Executive VP & CFO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.86844003 of GEF’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 2024-07-31, GEF reported revenue of $1417100000.0 and operating income of $131200000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $198500000.0 and diluted EPS was $nan.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for GEF since 3 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 2 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 1 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 GEF analysts setting a high price target of 93.0 and a low target of 71.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 78.83333. Based on these targets, GEF could surge 51.37% to reach the target high and rise by 15.56% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 28.31% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $4.36775 being high and $4.11673 being low. For GEF, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $4.21714. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $1.34 and the low estimate is $1.0. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $1.2.
