Graphic Packaging Holding Co (NYSE: GPK): Analyst View Points To Future Growth

Graphic Packaging Holding Co (GPK) concluded trading on Thursday at a closing price of $22.62, with 3.46 million shares of worth about $78.23 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained negative as price took a plunge of -20.21% during that period and on May 22, 2025 the price saw a loss of about -0.83%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 301.75M shares, out of which, 297.46M shares are available for trading.

Stock saw a price change of -3.00% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of -10.13%. Year-to-date (YTD), GPK shares are showing a performance of -16.72% which decreased to -17.11% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $20.86 but also hit the highest price of $30.70 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Graphic Packaging Holding Co shares is 3.08 million. The stock is currently trading -2.42% below its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is down -7.65% for SMA50 and it goes to -17.44% lower than SMA200.

Graphic Packaging Holding Co (NYSE: GPK) currently have 301.75M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 109.42% of that.

The stock has a current market capitalization of $6.83B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 0.77. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 11.09, while it has posted earnings per share of $2.04 in the same period. Its PEG reads 3.92 and has Quick Ratio of 0.73 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 1.81. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for GPK, volatility over the week remained 0.77% while standing at 4.09% over the month.

Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to drop by -15.64% while it is estimated to increase by 17.03% in next year. EPS is likely to shrink at an annualized rate of 2.83% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of 25.19% made by the stock over the past 5-years.

Digging deeper we find that several firms have released their research notes about the support levels of the stock. Most recent of them is a note released by Wells Fargo on January 06, 2025 offering an Equal weight rating for the stock and assigned a target price range of between $24 and $27 to it. Coverage by Citigroup stated Graphic Packaging Holding Co (GPK) stock as a Neutral in their note to investors on January 06, 2025, suggesting a price target of $30 for the stock. On October 30, 2024, Truist Downgrade their recommendations, while on July 09, 2024, Stifel Initiated their ratings for the stock with a price target of $35.20. Stock get a Mkt perform rating from Raymond James on November 27, 2023.

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