Graphic Packaging (NYSE:GPK) Releases FY25 Earnings Guidance

Graphic Packaging (NYSE:GPK) updated its FY25 earnings guidance on Tuesday. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $2.53-2.78 for the period, compared to the consensus earnings per share estimate of $2.68. The company issued revenue guidance of $8.7-8.9 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $8.93 billion. Graphic Packaging also updated its FY 2025 guidance to 2.480-2.730 EPS.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

Several equities research analysts have issued reports on the stock. Citigroup reissued a “neutral” rating and issued a $30.00 price objective (down from $33.00) on shares of Graphic Packaging in a research report on Monday, January 6th. Truist Financial raised their price objective on Graphic Packaging from $30.00 to $32.00 and gave the stock a “hold” rating in a report on Monday, January 6th. Robert W. Baird dropped their price target on Graphic Packaging from $36.00 to $32.00 and set an “outperform” rating on the stock in a research report on Wednesday. Wells Fargo & Company raised shares of Graphic Packaging from an “underweight” rating to an “equal weight” rating and upped their price objective for the stock from $24.00 to $27.00 in a research note on Monday, January 6th. Finally, StockNews.com downgraded shares of Graphic Packaging from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research report on Wednesday, October 30th. Four investment analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and three have issued a buy rating to the stock. According to data from MarketBeat, Graphic Packaging has a consensus rating of “Hold” and an average target price of $31.70.

Graphic Packaging Stock Up 1.3 %

GPK traded up $0.35 during trading on Wednesday, hitting $26.89. The stock had a trading volume of 2,750,114 shares, compared to its average volume of 2,375,922. The stock has a 50 day simple moving average of $28.00 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $28.64. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.78, a quick ratio of 0.72 and a current ratio of 1.73. Graphic Packaging has a twelve month low of $23.47 and a twelve month high of $30.70. The company has a market capitalization of $8.07 billion, a PE ratio of 11.51 and a beta of 0.85.

Graphic Packaging (NYSE:GPK) last announced its earnings results on Tuesday, February 4th. The industrial products company reported $0.59 earnings per share for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $0.63 by ($0.04). Graphic Packaging had a return on equity of 28.26% and a net margin of 7.99%. The business had revenue of $2.10 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $2.15 billion. During the same quarter last year, the firm earned $0.75 earnings per share. The firm’s quarterly revenue was down 6.8% compared to the same quarter last year. On average, research analysts predict that Graphic Packaging will post 2.53 earnings per share for the current year.

Graphic Packaging Dividend Announcement

The business also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Sunday, January 5th. Investors of record on Sunday, December 15th were paid a $0.10 dividend. This represents a $0.40 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 1.49%. The ex-dividend date was Friday, December 13th. Graphic Packaging’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is presently 17.09%.

Insiders Place Their Bets

In other news, CAO Charles D. Lischer sold 12,000 shares of the firm’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 transaction, the chief accounting officer now directly owns 49,849 shares in the company, valued at $1,478,022.85. This trade represents a 19.40 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is available through the SEC website. 1.20% of the stock is owned by insiders.

About Graphic Packaging

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.