Currently, there are 300.14M common shares owned by the public and among those 296.39M shares have been available to trade.
The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of -4.67% and -6.09% over the past three months. GPK shares are trading -2.28% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance up to 3.07% higher. It has a 12-month low price of $23.47 and touched a high of $30.70 over the same period. GPK has an average intraday trading volume of 2.05 million shares. The stock is trading above its simple moving averages at the SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200, as the current price level is off by -2.94%, -5.63%, and -5.95% respectively.
Institutional ownership of Graphic Packaging Holding Co (NYSE: GPK) shares accounts for 106.50% of the company’s 300.14M shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $7.97B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 0.81. The stock’s trailing 12-month PE ratio is 11.37, while the earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at $2.33. The company has a PEG of 1.35 and a Quick Ratio of 0.72 with the debt-to-equity ratio at 1.80. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 3.43% over the week and 2.40% over the month.
Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to increase by 7.50%, and 8.07% over the next financial year. EPS should shrink at an annualized rate of 8.44% over the next five years, compared to 26.82% over the past 5-year period.
Looking at the support for the GPK, a number of firms have released research notes about the stock. Wells Fargo stated their Equal Weight rating for the stock in a research note on January 06, 2025, with the firm’s price target at $24-$27. Citigroup coverage for the Graphic Packaging Holding Co (GPK) stock in a research note released on January 06, 2025 offered a Neutral rating with a price target of $30. Truist was of a view on October 30, 2024 that the stock is Hold, while Stifel gave the stock Buy rating on July 09, 2024, issuing a price target of $35.20. Raymond James on their part issued Mkt Perform rating on November 27, 2023.
