Segall Bryant & Hamill LLC Has $6.52 Million Position in Graphic Packaging Holding Company $GPK

Segall Bryant & Hamill LLC raised its stake in Graphic Packaging Holding Company (NYSE:GPK) by 4.1% during the 2nd quarter, according to the company in its most recent 13F filing with the SEC. The firm owned 309,365 shares of the industrial products company’s stock after buying an additional 12,042 shares during the quarter. Segall Bryant & Hamill LLC owned 0.10% of Graphic Packaging worth $6,518,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.

A number of other institutional investors also recently modified their holdings of GPK. GAMMA Investing LLC boosted its position in Graphic Packaging by 54.7% during the second quarter. GAMMA Investing LLC now owns 5,841 shares of the industrial products company’s stock valued at $123,000 after purchasing an additional 2,065 shares during the last quarter. Advocate Group LLC raised its stake in shares of Graphic Packaging by 16.2% during the 2nd quarter. Advocate Group LLC now owns 290,184 shares of the industrial products company’s stock worth $6,114,000 after purchasing an additional 40,466 shares in the last quarter. Terra Alpha Investments LLC raised its stake in shares of Graphic Packaging by 74.7% during the 2nd quarter. Terra Alpha Investments LLC now owns 83,929 shares of the industrial products company’s stock worth $1,768,000 after purchasing an additional 35,883 shares in the last quarter. Harbor Capital Advisors Inc. lifted its holdings in shares of Graphic Packaging by 21.6% during the 2nd quarter. Harbor Capital Advisors Inc. now owns 434,871 shares of the industrial products company’s stock valued at $9,163,000 after buying an additional 77,162 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Howard Capital Management Group LLC grew its stake in shares of Graphic Packaging by 2.8% in the 2nd quarter. Howard Capital Management Group LLC now owns 1,056,963 shares of the industrial products company’s stock valued at $22,270,000 after buying an additional 29,215 shares in the last quarter. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 99.67% of the company’s stock.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

GPK has been the subject of a number of analyst reports. Raymond James Financial cut shares of Graphic Packaging from an “outperform” rating to a “market perform” rating in a research note on Friday, October 17th. UBS Group reduced their price objective on shares of Graphic Packaging from $20.00 to $19.00 and set a “neutral” rating for the company in a research note on Thursday, November 6th. Wells Fargo & Company lowered their target price on shares of Graphic Packaging from $20.00 to $18.00 and set an “equal weight” rating on the stock in a research report on Thursday, November 6th. Royal Bank Of Canada cut Graphic Packaging from an “outperform” rating to a “sector perform” rating and reduced their price target for the stock from $25.00 to $21.00 in a research report on Thursday, October 9th. Finally, Citigroup decreased their price target on Graphic Packaging from $23.00 to $21.00 and set a “neutral” rating for the company in a research note on Monday, October 6th. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a Buy rating, nine have issued a Hold rating and one has assigned a Sell rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the stock presently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and an average target price of $22.63.

Graphic Packaging Stock Up 2.6%

GPK stock opened at $15.57 on Monday. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.68, a current ratio of 1.43 and a quick ratio of 0.56. The company has a 50-day moving average of $17.66 and a two-hundred day moving average of $20.60. The stock has a market capitalization of $4.59 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 8.79 and a beta of 0.72. Graphic Packaging Holding Company has a 52-week low of $14.90 and a 52-week high of $30.49.

Graphic Packaging (NYSE:GPK) last announced its earnings results on Tuesday, November 4th. The industrial products company reported $0.58 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.54 by $0.04. The firm had revenue of $2.19 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $2.17 billion. Graphic Packaging had a return on equity of 21.13% and a net margin of 6.18%. Graphic Packaging has set its FY 2025 guidance at 1.800-2.000 EPS. As a group, equities research analysts anticipate that Graphic Packaging Holding Company will post 2.47 EPS for the current year.

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.