Graphic Packaging (NYSE:GPK) Issues Quarterly Earnings Results

Graphic Packaging (NYSE:GPK) announced its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday. The industrial products company reported $0.59 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.63 by ($0.04), Zacks reports. Graphic Packaging had a net margin of 7.99% and a return on equity of 28.26%. The company had revenue of $2.10 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $2.15 billion. During the same period last year, the business posted $0.75 earnings per share. The firm’s quarterly revenue was down 6.8% compared to the same quarter last year. Graphic Packaging updated its FY 2025 guidance to 2.480-2.730 EPS and its FY25 guidance to $2.53-2.78 EPS.

Graphic Packaging Trading Down 2.6 %

Shares of NYSE:GPK opened at $26.52 on Wednesday. Graphic Packaging has a 52-week low of $23.47 and a 52-week high of $30.70. The stock has a market capitalization of $7.96 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 11.33 and a beta of 0.85. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.78, a quick ratio of 0.72 and a current ratio of 1.73. The stock’s 50-day simple moving average is $28.00 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $28.64.

Graphic Packaging Announces Dividend

The company also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Sunday, January 5th. Shareholders of record on Sunday, December 15th were issued a $0.10 dividend. This represents a $0.40 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 1.51%. The ex-dividend date was Friday, December 13th. Graphic Packaging’s dividend payout ratio is 17.09%.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

Several equities analysts recently issued reports on the company. StockNews.com lowered Graphic Packaging from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research report on Wednesday, October 30th. Citigroup reaffirmed a “neutral” rating and issued a $30.00 target price (down from $33.00) on shares of Graphic Packaging in a research note on Monday, January 6th. Royal Bank of Canada dropped their price target on shares of Graphic Packaging from $35.00 to $34.00 and set an “outperform” rating for the company in a research report on Thursday, October 17th. Truist Financial raised their price target on shares of Graphic Packaging from $30.00 to $32.00 and gave the stock a “hold” rating in a report on Monday, January 6th. Finally, Wells Fargo & Company upgraded shares of Graphic Packaging from an “underweight” rating to an “equal weight” rating and increased their target price for the stock from $24.00 to $27.00 in a report on Monday, January 6th. Four equities research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and three have given a buy rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, the company currently has an average rating of “Hold” and an average price target of $32.37.

Insider Buying and Selling at Graphic Packaging

In other Graphic Packaging news, CAO Charles D. Lischer sold 12,000 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction dated Monday, November 25th. The stock was sold at an average price of $29.65, for a total value of $355,800.00. Following the completion of the sale, the chief accounting officer now owns 49,849 shares in the company, valued at $1,478,022.85. This represents a 19.40 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which is available through this hyperlink. 1.20% of the stock is owned by corporate insiders.

Graphic Packaging Company Profile

Graphic Packaging Holding Company, together with its subsidiaries, designs, produces, and sells consumer packaging products to brands in food, beverage, foodservice, household, and other consumer products. It operates through three segments: Paperboard Manufacturing, Americas Paperboard Packaging, and Europe Paperboard Packaging.