Graphic Packaging Holding Co (NYSE: GPK) is 16.15% higher on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $21.25 and a high of $30.70 in the current 52-week trading range. The question becomes, what are the chances the stock will continue to grow shareholders’ wealth in the market. Here’s what analysts think will happen to its price in the coming time. The GPK stock was last observed hovering at around $29.10 in the last trading session, with the day’s loss setting it -0.47%.
Currently trading at $28.63, the stock is -1.82% and -2.14% below its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 1.14 million and changing -1.62% at the moment leaves the stock 2.70% off its SMA200. GPK registered 34.22% gain for a year compared to 6-month gain of 2.03%. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average (SMA 50) of $29.256 and a 200-day simple moving average (SMA200) of $27.8786.
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The stock witnessed a -2.49% loss in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a 0.49%, and is -1.41% down over the last 5 days. If we measure the stock’s price variations over the week and the month, we find that the volatility rates stand at 1.97% over the week and 2.20% over the month.
Graphic Packaging Holding Co (GPK) has around 23500 employees, a market worth around $8.59B and $8.96B in sales. Current P/E ratio is 12.27 and Fwd P/E is 10.74. Profit margin for the company is 7.99%. Distance from 52-week low is 34.76% and -6.74% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (8.54%).
The EPS is expected to shrink by -13.87% this year
676.0 institutions hold shares in Graphic Packaging Holding Co (GPK), with institutional investors hold 111.84% of the company’s shares. The shares outstanding are 306.06M, and float is at 296.38M with Short Float at 5.92%. Institutions hold 110.51% of the Float.
The top institutional shareholder in the company is VANGUARD GROUP INC with over 30.27 million shares valued at $793.5 million. The investor’s holdings represent 9.8358 of the GPK Shares outstanding. As of 2024-06-30, the second largest holder is BLACKROCK INC. with 29.92 million shares valued at $784.2 million to account for 9.7206 of the shares outstanding. The other top investors are FMR LLC which holds 18.17 million shares representing 5.9017 and valued at over $476.12 million, while FULLER & THALER ASSET MANAGEMENT, INC. holds 4.5747 of the shares totaling 14.08 million with a market value of $369.06 million.
Graphic Packaging Holding Co (GPK) Insider Activity
The most recent transaction is an insider sale by Farrell Michael James, the company’s EVP, Mills Division. SEC filings show that Farrell Michael James sold 25,900 shares of the company’s common stock on Nov 06 ’24 at a price of $28.99 per share for a total of $0.75 million. Following the sale, the insider now owns 81026.0 shares.
Still, SEC filings show that on Aug 08 ’24, DOSS MICHAEL P (President and CEO) disposed off 164,443 shares at an average price of $28.21 for $4.64 million. The insider now directly holds 1,958,759 shares of Graphic Packaging Holding Co (GPK).
