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NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE, INC. · Packaging · CIK 0000043920
$83.13
+1.50% · live
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$3.84B market value
From GREIF, INC's FY2024 10-K, filed Dec 23, 2024 · read the filing
GREIF makes metal parts and products. It took in $5.45B last year, which makes it a mid-sized company. Of every dollar it sells, about 5 cents is left as profit.
The financial picture is led by accounting, with profitability and growth worth watching, while debt remain weak.
A conclusion from the filings, not a recommendation. Detailed figures and supporting evidence appear in their dedicated sections below.
Recent open-market selling by 4 insiders, not under a pre-arranged plan.
$4.0M sold in the last 120 days · Read the filing
These are things the company filed or that a published model flagged — not predictions, and not a reason on their own to buy or sell anything.
Financial health
A mixed picture — some clear strengths and some weaknesses.
From GREIF, INC's FY2024 annual filing · share price scored separately
Largest year-over-year changes in FY2024
Operating income
$605.5M → $464.6M
Profit
$359.2M → $268.8M
Operating margin
11.6% → 8.5%
Long-term debt
$2.12B → $2.63B
Measured against FY2023, from the 10-K filed Dec 23, 2024
Deteriorated: -23.3%
$605.5M to $464.6MSignificant
Why it matters: Profit from running the business, before interest and tax. Less exposed than profit to one-off financing and tax items, so a clearer read on the business itself.
Deteriorated: -25.2%
$359.2M to $268.8MSignificant
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
How the latest move compares (quote live), and what was published around it
GEF rose 1.50% on the latest quote. The average Industrials company tracked here moved +0.37%, and the S&P 500 −1.04%. That is 1.1 points above its sector and 2.5 points above the market.
Expectations
Not from the filings — what other people are betting on, and what the price already assumes.
The growth rate someone buying today is paying for, against what the company has delivered
At today's price, the market is paying for free cash flow to grow by about 10% a year for the next 10 years. Over the last 6 years it grew by about 13% a year.
The essentials
Each answered from the filings, with the numbers behind it.
Yes. It keeps about 5 cents of every dollar of sales as profit, earning $268.8M last year.
Slowly. Sales grew 4.4% last year.
Yes. Clearing its debt would take roughly 7.1 years of cash flow. For every $1 it owes, it owns $1.46 in assets.
Core operating and valuation reference metrics
Whether the dividend is covered by what the business actually earns
It pays out 45 cents of every dollar of profit and keeps the rest, which leaves the payment comfortably covered. It paid out 34% of the cash its operations generated. It has paid in each of the last 12 years.
GoodNext payment expected around , projected from how regularly it has paid before rather than from a date the company has announced.
Figures from the FY2024 annual filing
Last year it earned $268.8M and generated $356.0M of cash from operations.
Reported annual figures
As reported to the SEC, in USD. Hover or show sources to see where each figure came from.
| Income statement | FY202410-K · Dec 23, 2024Filing for FY2024 | FY202310-K · Dec 18, 2023Filing for FY2023 | FY202210-K · Dec 16, 2022Filing for FY2022 | FY202110-K · Dec 16, 2021Filing for FY2021 | FY202010-K · Dec 17, 2020Filing for FY2020 | ChangeFY2024 vs FY2023 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RevenueWhat is this? | $5.45B | $5.22B | $6.35B | $5.56B | $4.51B | +4.4% |
| Cost of revenue | $4.38B | $4.07B | $5.06B | $4.46B | $3.60B | +7.5% |
| Gross profit | $1.07B | $1.15B | $1.29B | $1.09B | $914.7M | −6.6% |
| Gross marginGross profit ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 19.7% | 22.0% | 20.2% | 19.7% | 20.3% | −2.3 pts |
| Selling, general and administrative | $634.5M | $549.1M | $581.0M | $565.9M | $516.0M | +15.6% |
| Operating income | $464.6M | $605.5M | $621.2M | $585.2M | $304.9M | −23.3% |
| Operating marginOperating income ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 8.5% | 11.6% | 9.8% | 10.5% | 6.8% | −3.1 pts |
| Income before tax | $319.6M | $494.7M | $525.7M | $478.6M | $186.1M | −35.4% |
| Net income | $268.8M | $359.2M | $376.7M | $390.7M | $108.8M | −25.2% |
| Net marginNet income ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 4.9% | 6.9% | 5.9% | 7.0% | 2.4% | −1.9 pts |
† calculated from other reported figures, such as total liabilities as assets minus equity.
This company's latest filing beside its peers' stored scores
| Company | Health | F-Score | Revenue growth | Profit margin | P/E | Debt to equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GEFGREIF, INC · this page | 6.0/10 | 4/8 | 4.4% | 4.9% | 14.28x |
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Officers, directors and major shareholders must report within two business days of a trade.
Sold on the open market — 2,000 shares at $81.82 ($163.6K)
Holds 51,832 shares after this filing.
Sold on the open market
20 recent filings, newest first. Each is labelled from its form and item numbers, not from its wording.
Published results · Made a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingQuarterly report on Form 10-Q
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Every company's figures are checked for internal consistency: the balance sheet adding up, figures sharing one currency, cash flow and share counts within plausible ranges, and how recent the latest annual report is. Nothing here changes a figure.
Financial figures are from GEF's 10-K for fiscal year 2024 (period ending 2024-10-31, filed Dec 23, 2024), reported under the US GAAP taxonomy. View the source filing. Total liabilities were not tagged directly and were calculated as assets minus equity.
4 of 4 scored areas had enough reported figures to judge
The score averages profitability, growth, debt and accounting. All four had enough reported figures. Cash generation is shown for context and already feeds profitability. Valuation is scored separately, because a share price says nothing about whether the business is sound. 8 of the 9 Piotroski checks could be evaluated. How the score works
Each year scored only from its annual report as it was first filed
| Fiscal year | Health | F-Score | Scored from |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024 | 6.0 | 4/8 | 10-K, filed Dec 23, 2024 |
| FY2023 | 6.0 | 5/8 | 10-K, filed Dec 18, 2023 |
| FY2022 | 8.0 | 7/8 | 10-K, filed Dec 16, 2022 |
| FY2021 | 7.0 | 6/8 | 10-K, filed Dec 16, 2021 |
| FY2020 | 6.0 | 4/8 | 10-K, filed Dec 17, 2020 |
| FY2019 | 7.0 | 5/8 | 10-K, filed Dec 18, 2019 |
A later restatement never reaches back into an earlier year, and every year is scored without a share price, so the latest point can differ a little from the headline score, which uses today's price.
Every check behind the three models, and what each one tests
4 of 8 checks passed
Nine yes-or-no tests of whether this year's finances improved on last year's. One could not be evaluated and is excluded from the total rather than counted as a failure.
2.17
In the grey zone
For this model, above 2.99 is safe and below 1.81 is distress.
Distance from bankruptcy, from a model fitted on companies that did and did not go bust. It describes a balance sheet's shape today; it does not forecast a failure.
-2.40
Below the threshold — nothing unusual flagged
Scores above -1.78 are the ones the model associates with earnings manipulation.
Screens eight accounting ratios for the pattern earnings manipulators tend to leave. A flag is a reason to read the filing closely, never evidence of wrongdoing.
Every figure above comes from the FY2024 filing as filed with the SEC.
Deteriorated: −3.1 pts
11.6% to 8.5%Significant
Why it matters: What survives each sale after running the business. A falling operating margin beside a steady gross margin points at overheads — wages, marketing, research — rather than pricing.
Deteriorated: +23.8%
$2.12B to $2.63BSignificant
Why it matters: Rising debt is not automatically bad — borrowing to build something that earns more than the interest is ordinary. It matters when it grows faster than the profit meant to service it.
Deteriorated: -6.6%
$1.15B to $1.07BNotable
Why it matters: What is left of sales after the direct cost of producing them. It normally moves with revenue, so a move out of step with revenue is the part worth noticing.
Deteriorated: −2.3 pts
22.0% to 19.7%Notable
Why it matters: What survives each sale before overheads. Falling gross margin usually means the company is discounting or its input costs rose — it is the earliest place pricing pressure shows.
Deteriorated: −1.9 pts
6.9% to 4.9%Notable
Why it matters: What survives to the very end of each sale. Worth reading beside revenue: growing sales on a shrinking margin means the company is buying its growth.
Improved: +9.3%
$180.9M to $197.7MNotable
Why it matters: A falling cash pile is only a warning if the company is consuming it. Paying down debt, buying back stock and paying a dividend all reduce cash by choice.
Q2 FY2026 against Q2 FY2026, from the 10-Q filed Apr 29, 2026 — read it.
Deteriorated: -41.7%
$60.7M to $35.4MCritical
Why it matters: Profit from running the business, before interest and tax. Less exposed than profit to one-off financing and tax items, so a clearer read on the business itself.
Deteriorated: -68.4%
$39.9M to $12.6MCritical
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
Deteriorated: −2.3 pts
5.6% to 3.3%Notable
Why it matters: What survives each sale after running the business. A falling operating margin beside a steady gross margin points at overheads — wages, marketing, research — rather than pricing.
Deteriorated: −2.5 pts
3.7% to 1.2%Notable
Why it matters: What survives to the very end of each sale. Worth reading beside revenue: growing sales on a shrinking margin means the company is buying its growth.
Q2 FY2026 against Q1 FY2026, from the 10-Q filed Apr 29, 2026 — read it. Quarter-to-quarter moves include seasonal swings — a retailer's holiday quarter — which the year-earlier comparison removes.
Deteriorated: -86.2%
$256.6M to $35.4MCritical
Why it matters: Profit from running the business, before interest and tax. Less exposed than profit to one-off financing and tax items, so a clearer read on the business itself.
Deteriorated: -92.8%
$174.6M to $12.6MCritical
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
Deteriorated: −22.5 pts
25.8% to 3.3%Critical
Why it matters: What survives each sale after running the business. A falling operating margin beside a steady gross margin points at overheads — wages, marketing, research — rather than pricing.
Deteriorated: −16.4 pts
17.6% to 1.2%Critical
Why it matters: What survives to the very end of each sale. Worth reading beside revenue: growing sales on a shrinking margin means the company is buying its growth.
Improved: +21.9%
$202.6M to $247.0MSignificant
Why it matters: What is left of sales after the direct cost of producing them. It normally moves with revenue, so a move out of step with revenue is the part worth noticing.
Improved: +17.5%
$243.5M to $286.1MSignificant
Why it matters: A falling cash pile is only a warning if the company is consuming it. Paying down debt, buying back stock and paying a dividend all reduce cash by choice.
Improved: +7.8%
$994.8M to $1.07BNotable
Why it matters: Sales are what everything else is built on. A fall can be lost customers, lower prices, or a business the company sold — the filing itself says which.
Improved: +2.7 pts
20.4% to 23.0%Notable
Why it matters: What survives each sale before overheads. Falling gross margin usually means the company is discounting or its input costs rose — it is the earliest place pricing pressure shows.
Deteriorated: +7.0%
$655.1M to $701.2MNotable
Why it matters: Rising debt is not automatically bad — borrowing to build something that earns more than the interest is ordinary. It matters when it grows faster than the profit meant to service it.
2 other measures barely moved. Figures compare the two most recent annual filings — read the latest one. Moves are graded on fixed lines — 5%, 15% and 40% for amounts, and 1, 3 and 8 points for margins — as notable, significant or critical. Nothing here reads the management commentary, which is where a company explains its own numbers.
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Discounted at 8%–10% a year, with growth settling to 2.5% after 10 years. Those rates are ordinary choices, not measurements: across that range the assumed growth works out between 8% and 12%. This describes what the price implies — it is not a forecast, and not a view on whether the price is right.
Opinions from 13 analysts covering this company, as of . Their views, not this site's.
Of 13 analysts publishing on this company, 1 say strong buy, 6 say hold, 5 say sell and 1 say strong sell. Analysts are paid to publish a view and are wrong often; the split above says how much they agree with each other, which is the part a single headline rating hides.
Published by Finnhub. Analyst coverage skews towards larger companies and towards optimism — sell ratings are rare across the whole market, so a company with none is ordinary rather than endorsed.
Measured on and published about a week later — this is a fortnightly snapshot, not a live position.
About 4.3% of this company's shares have been borrowed and sold by people expecting to buy them back cheaper. That is a bet the price falls. Those people can be wrong, and when a heavily shorted share rises they have to buy it back, which pushes it up further.
Collected by FINRA from broker-dealers twice a month. It counts positions, not intentions, and some of it is hedging rather than a directional bet against the company.
Nothing in this section is a figure this company reported about itself. These are expectations and positions — what the price implies, what analysts have published, what short sellers are betting, and what large funds held at the last count. WylthIQ reports them; it does not endorse them, does not forecast prices, and takes no view on whether any of them will turn out to be right.
The trailing P/E is 12.9x — investors pay $12.9 for each $1 of trailing profit.
Nothing unusual. Its accounting patterns look like those of companies that report earnings straightforwardly.
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| BALLBALL Corp | 7.0/10 | 6/9 | 11.6% | 7.0% | 20.34x | 2.60x |
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| Median of peers | 7.0/10 | — | 11.6% | 7.0% | 20.34x | 2.60x |
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Peers come from the company's industry classification. A difference describes the companies; it does not rank them.
Holds 53,832 shares after this filing.
Sold on the open market — 1,000 shares at $109.67 ($109.7K)
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Sold on the open market — 21,500 shares at $88.66 ($1.9M)
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Sold on the open market — 102 shares at $87.61 ($8.9K)
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Holds 1,756 shares after this filing.
Notice filed ahead of a planned sale — the sale itself has not necessarily happened yet.
Filed notice to sell 6,000 shares ($498.9K) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via Restricted Stock Units.
Filed notice to sell 1,146 shares ($101.5K) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via ESPP Purchase.
Filed notice to sell 21,500 shares ($1.9M) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via Performance Stock Units.
Filed notice to sell 20,255 shares ($1.8M) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via ESPP Purchase.
Filed notice to sell 983 shares ($84.9K) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via Restricted Stock Vesting.
Filed notice to sell 6,000 shares ($391.5K) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via Restricted Stock.
Estimated from how often this has happened before, not a confirmed date.
Not investment advice, and not a signal to act on by itself — a filing says what happened, not why, and insiders trade for ordinary reasons having nothing to do with where they think the company is headed.
Triggered early repayment on an obligation · Signed a material agreement · Terminated a material agreement · Took on a direct financial obligation
Published results · Made a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q2 FY2026
Operating margin −2.3 pts · Operating income -41.7% · Profit -68.4% — against Q2 FY2026
Read the filingTriggered early repayment on an obligation · Signed a material agreement · Terminated a material agreement · Took on a direct financial obligation
Read the filingHeld a shareholder vote
Read the filingMade a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingPublished results · Made a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q1 FY2026
Operating margin +22.4 pts · Operating income +652.5% · Profit +693.6% — against Q1 FY2026
Read the filingProxy statement for a shareholder meeting
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Read the filingPublished results · Made a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingCompleted an acquisition or disposal · Made a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join · Published results · Made a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q3 FY2025
Operating margin −5.3 pts · Operating income -46.5% · Cash +46.9% — against Q3 FY2025
Read the filingSigned a material agreement · Made a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingMade a Regulation FD disclosure
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