Graco Inc (GGG) concluded trading on Thursday at a closing price of $88.79, with 0.47 million shares of worth about $41.46 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained positive as price took a surge of 5.99% during that period and on July 03, 2025 the price saw a gain of about 0.34%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 167.13M shares, out of which, 165.47M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of 2.93% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of 5.18%. Year-to-date (YTD), GGG shares are showing a performance of 14.10% which increased to 5.34% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $72.06 but also hit the highest price of $92.86 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Graco Inc shares is 871.49K. The stock is currently trading 3.82% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is up 5.18% for SMA50 and it goes to 4.65% higher than SMA200.
Graco Inc (NYSE: GGG) currently have 167.13M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 89.84% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $14.84B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 1.05. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 31.33, while it has posted earnings per share of $2.83 in the same period. Its PEG reads 4.18 and has Quick Ratio of 2.53 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 0.02. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for GGG, volatility over the week remained 1.89% while standing at 1.49% over the month.
Analysts are in expectations that Graco Inc (GGG) stock would likely to be making an EPS of 0.79 in the current quarter, while forecast for next quarter EPS is 0.74 and it is 3.19 for next year. For the current quarter EPS, analysts have given the company a lowest target 0.75 which is 0.82 at the higher side of the target for the same. When we compare those targets with actual EPS, we find that company posted an EPS of 0.77 in the same quarter a year ago. Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 6.77% while it is estimated to increase by 7.87% in next year. EPS is likely to grow at an annualized rate of 7.49% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of 7.07% 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 Exane BNP Paribas on December 19, 2024 offering an Outperform rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $105 to it. Coverage by Exane BNP Paribas stated Graco Inc (GGG) stock as a Neutral in their note to investors on October 05, 2023, suggesting a price target of $73 for the stock. On June 05, 2023, William Blair Resumed their recommendations, while on February 02, 2023, Seaport Research Partners Upgrade their ratings for the stock with a price target of $82. Stock get a Neutral rating from Robert W. Baird on July 14, 2022.
