Graphic Packaging Holding Co (GPK) 20 Days SMA touches 1.02%: The odds favor the bear

On Friday, Graphic Packaging Holding Co (NYSE: GPK) was 1.10% up from the session before settling in for the closing price of $29.21. A 52-week range for GPK has been $22.76 – $30.70.

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Consumer Cyclical Sector giant saw their annual sales surged by 9.91% over the last five years. When this article was written, the company’s average yearly earnings per share was at -13.86%. With a float of $296.39 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $300.14 million.

The firm has a total of 23500 workers. Let’s measure their productivity. 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

Also, it is sometimes useful to examine the sentiment of large-scale investors toward Graphic Packaging Holding Co stocks. The insider ownership of Graphic Packaging Holding Co is 1.25%, while institutional ownership is 105.47%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Nov 25 ’24, was worth 355,800. In this transaction SVP & CAO of this company sold 12,000 shares at a rate of $29.65, taking the stock ownership to the 49,849 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Nov 25 ’24, when Company’s Officer proposed sale 12,000 for $29.65, making the entire transaction worth $355,748.

Graphic Packaging Holding Co (GPK) Earnings and Forecasts

According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around -13.86% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 16.00% 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

You can see what Graphic Packaging Holding Co (GPK) is doing with its current performance indicators. In the most recent quarter, the stock posted a quick ratio of 0.72. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 1.00.

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)

Analysing the last 5-days average volume posted by the [Graphic Packaging Holding Co, GPK], we can find that recorded value of 2.35 million was lower than the volume posted last year of 2.54 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 40.89%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 0.58.

During the past 100 days, Graphic Packaging Holding Co’s (GPK) raw stochastic average was set at 66.95%, which indicates a significant increase from 60.66% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 15.40% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 23.80% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.

At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $29.17, while its 200-day Moving Average is $28.20. Now, the first resistance to watch is $29.66. This is followed by the second major resistance level at $29.78. The third major resistance level sits at $30.02. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $29.30, it is likely to go to the next support level at $29.06. Should the price break the second support level, the third support level stands at $28.94.

Graphic Packaging Holding Co (NYSE: GPK) Key Stats

There are 300,140K outstanding shares of the company, which has a market capitalization of 8.96 billion. As of now, sales total 9,428 M while income totals 723,000 K. Its latest quarter income was 2,216 M while its last quarter net income were 165,000 K.