Greif (GEF)

• Market cap: $3.55B
• 1 day: 0.08%
• 5 days: 6.61%
• 1 month: -4.52%
• 3 months: -5.77%
• 6 months: -4.71%
• Year to date: 1.55%
• 1 year: -2.83%
• 5 years: 33.83%
• 10 years: 52.57%
• Sector: Consumer Discretionary
• Industry: Metal Shipping Barrels, Drums, Kegs & Pails

About: Greif Inc is a producer of industrial packaging products and services with manufacturing facilities located in many countries. It offers a comprehensive line of rigid industrial packaging products, such as steel, fiber, and plastic drums, rigid intermediate bulk containers, closure systems for industrial packaging products, transit protection products, water bottles and remanufactured and reconditioned industrial containers, and services, such as container life cycle management, blending, filling, logistics, warehousing, and other packaging services. The company operates in three reportable business segments including Global Industrial Packaging, Paper Packaging and Services, and Land Management. It operates in USA, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia and Other Americas.

Employees: 14,000

Fund manager confidence

Based on 2024 Q3 regulatory filings by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)

344% more call options, than puts

Call options by funds: $22.4M | Put options by funds: $5.03M

11% more first-time investments, than exits

New positions opened: 30 | Existing positions closed: 27

7% more capital invested

Capital invested by funds: $1.29B [Q2] → $1.38B (+$91.1M) [Q3]

0% more funds holding

Funds holding: 243 [Q2] → 244 (+1) [Q3]

1.68% less ownership

Funds ownership: 87.11% [Q2] → 85.43% (-1.68%) [Q3]

18% less repeat investments, than reductions

Existing positions increased: 78 | Existing positions reduced: 95

100% less funds holding in top 10

Funds holding in top 10: 1 [Q2] → 0 (-1) [Q3]

Research analyst outlook

4 Wall Street Analysts provided 1 year price targets over the past 3 months

• Low target: $71 16% upside
• Avg. target: $78 27% upside
• High target: $93 51% upside

4 analyst ratings

• positive: 2 50%
• neutral: 2 50%
• negative: 0 0%

B of A Securities George Staphos 50% 1-year accuracy 10 / 20 met price target	19% upside $73	Buy Maintained	6 Jan 2025
Truist Securities Michael Roxland 61% 1-year accuracy 27 / 44 met price target	16% upside $71	Hold Maintained	6 Jan 2025
Baird Ghansham Panjabi 30% 1-year accuracy 8 / 27 met price target	22% upside $75	Neutral Maintained	6 Dec 2024
Sidoti & Co.	51% upside $93	Buy Initiated	20 Nov 2024