Should You Sell Graphic Packaging Holding Co (GPK) And Go Away This Year?

Graphic Packaging Holding Co (NYSE:GPK) currently has a daily average trading volume of 2.29M but it saw 2033843 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 8.52B USD, the company’s current market price of $28.38 came falling about -0.87 while comparing to the previous closing price of $28.63. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $30.70 and as low as $21.54. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $28.17 while lowest mark touched by it was $28.71.

Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Graphic Packaging Holding Co (GPK) gives us an average price of $29.09, while its current price level is -7.56% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 31.75% above from lowest level seen by the stock during that period. Simple moving average of 50 days or SMA-50 of the stock’s closing price is $29.25 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $27.89. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 1.83% during that period while stretching the period over a month that increases to 2.20%. It is also necessary to take a look into other indicators of a stock too, to get a better idea about its price movement. And in doing so, we find stock’s 14-day relative strength index (RSI) standing at 43.27 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.

Over the week, GPK’s stock price is moving -2.31% down while it is -3.73% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is 15.13% up and over the past year, the stock is showing an upside performance of 28.77%.

Currently, Graphic Packaging Holding Co’s total number of outstanding shares is 306.06M. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 8.54% and return on equity (ROE) at 25.81%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 12.16 while having a 10.64 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 0.83. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 2.83 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 0.95. Its return on asset (ROA) is 6.47% on average.