A new trading day began on Friday, with Graphic Packaging Holding Co (NYSE: GPK) stock price up 0.07% from the previous day of trading, before settling in for the closing price of $28.26. GPK’s price has ranged from $21.25 to $30.70 over the past 52 weeks.
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During the last 5-year period, the sales growth of Consumer Cyclical Sector giant was 9.91%. Meanwhile, its annual earnings per share averaged -13.87%. With a float of $296.36 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
As we move forward, let’s examine how large-scale investors are investing in this stock of the Packaging & Containers Industry. The insider ownership of Graphic Packaging Holding Co is 1.26%, while institutional ownership is 107.11%. 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
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around -13.87% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 10.00% 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
Here are Graphic Packaging Holding Co’s current performance indicators. According to the last quarter’s results, the stock had a quick ratio of 0.72. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 0.95.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 2.33, a number that is poised to hit 0.62 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 2.67 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 6.07 million, which is a jump from its year-to-date volume of 2.59 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 7.10%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 0.67.
During the past 100 days, Graphic Packaging Holding Co’s (GPK) raw stochastic average was set at 56.59%, which indicates a significant increase from 9.02% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 28.81% in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 25.28% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $29.36, while its 200-day Moving Average is $27.75. However, in the short run, Graphic Packaging Holding Co’s stock first resistance to watch stands at $28.57. Second resistance stands at $28.85. The third major resistance level sits at $29.12. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $28.02, it is likely to go to the next support level at $27.75. Should the price break the second support level, the third support level stands at $27.47.
Graphic Packaging Holding Co (NYSE: GPK) Key Stats
With a market capitalization of 8.49 billion, the company has a total of 300,140K Shares Outstanding. Currently, annual sales are 9,428 M while annual income is 723,000 K. The company’s previous quarter sales were 2,237 M while its latest quarter income was 190,000 K.
