Graphic Packaging Holding Co (NYSE: GPK) on Tuesday, plunged -1.01% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $29.83. Within the past 52 weeks, GPK’s price has moved between $20.07 and $30.66.
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During the last 5-year period, the sales growth of Consumer Cyclical Sector giant was 9.91%. The company achieved an average annual earnings per share of -9.76%. With a float of $296.33 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $306.06 million.
Let’s determine the extent of company efficiency that accounts for 23500 employees. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 23.4%, operating margin of 13.84%, and the pretax margin is 9.5%.
Graphic Packaging Holding Co (GPK) Insider Activity
Observing investor behavior towards Packaging & Containers industry stocks is more important than anything else. The insider ownership of Graphic Packaging Holding Co is 1.26%, while institutional ownership is 107.18%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Aug 08 ’24, was worth 4,638,937. In this transaction President and CEO of this company sold 164,443 shares at a rate of $28.21, taking the stock ownership to the 1,958,759 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Aug 07 ’24, when Company’s President and CEO sold 86,374 for $28.05, making the entire transaction worth $2,422,791. This insider now owns 2,123,202 shares in total.
Graphic Packaging Holding Co (GPK) Earnings and Forecasts
As on 6/30/2024, Multinational firm has announced its last quarter scores, in which it reported 0.74 earnings per share (EPS) for the period topping the consensus outlook (set at 0.71) by 0.03. Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 0.68 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around -9.76% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 15.50% during the next five years compared to 26.82% growth over the previous five years of trading.
Graphic Packaging Holding Co (NYSE: GPK) Trading Performance Indicators
Graphic Packaging Holding Co (GPK) is currently performing well based on its current performance indicators. A quick ratio of 0.58 was reported for the most recent quarter. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 0.97. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 492.35.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 2.34, a number that is poised to hit 0.67 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 2.81 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Graphic Packaging Holding Co (GPK)
Looking closely at Graphic Packaging Holding Co (NYSE: GPK), its last 5-days average volume was 2.55 million, which is a jump from its year-to-date volume of 2.51 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 76.42%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 0.59.
During the past 100 days, Graphic Packaging Holding Co’s (GPK) raw stochastic average was set at 79.66%, which indicates a significant increase from 65.73% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 15.82% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 24.87% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $29.25, while its 200-day Moving Average is $27.61. However, in the short run, Graphic Packaging Holding Co’s stock first resistance to watch stands at $29.88. Second resistance stands at $30.23. The third major resistance level sits at $30.50. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $29.26, it is likely to go to the next support level at $28.99. Should the price break the second support level, the third support level stands at $28.64.
Graphic Packaging Holding Co (NYSE: GPK) Key Stats
Market capitalization of the company is 8.86 billion based on 307,294K outstanding shares. Right now, sales total 9,428 M and income totals 723,000 K. The company made 2,237 M in profit during its latest quarter, and 190,000 K in sales during its previous quarter.
