These Top 6 Utility Stocks Have Been Rising in Popularity
The top utility stocks share certain characteristics that give them the power to outperform and provide steady stock returns for investors. Today we look at the markets top 6 utility companies rising in popularity. Each company on this list has the potential to provide above-average returns!
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Shares Stats
| Shares Outstanding | 26,525,200 |
| Shares Float | 31,561,471 |
| Shares Short | 1,009,355 |
| Insider Holdings | 331% |
| Institution Holdings | 89.66% |
About Greif, Inc
Greif, Inc. produces and sells industrial packaging products and services worldwide. It operates through four segments: Rigid Industrial Packaging & Services; Paper Packaging & Services; Flexible Products & Services; and Land Management. The Rigid Industrial Packaging & Services segment offers rigid industrial packaging products, including 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, filling, logistics, warehousing, and other packaging services. This segment sells its products to customers in the chemicals, paints and pigments, food and beverage, petroleum, industrial coatings, agricultural, pharmaceutical and minerals, and other industries. The Paper Packaging & Services segment provides containerboards, corrugated sheets, corrugated containers, and other corrugated and specialty products to customers in the packaging, automotive, food, and building products markets. This segment's corrugated container products are used to ship various products, such as home appliances, small machinery, grocery products, automotive components, books, and furniture, as well as various other applications. The Flexible Products & Services segment offers flexible intermediate bulk containers comprising polypropylene-based woven fabric, as well as related services to the agricultural, food, and other industries. The Land Management segment engages in harvesting and regeneration of timber properties; and sale of timberland and special use land. As of October 31, 2020, this segment owned approximately 244,000 acres of timber property in the southeastern United States. The company was formerly known as Greif Bros. Corporation and changed its name to Greif, Inc. in 2001. Greif, Inc. was founded in 1877 and is based in Delaware, Ohio.
General
| Name | Greif, Inc |
| Ticker | GEF |
| Exchange | NYSE |
| Sector | Consumer Cyclical |
| Industry | Packaging & Containers |
| Currency | USD |
| Country | USA |
| Fiscal Year End | October |
| Full Time Employees | 16,000 |
Highlights
| Analyst Target | 56.60 |
| Market Cap | 2,916,332,800 |
| PE Ratio | 9.03 |
| PEG Ratio | 2.25 |
| EBITDA | 628,200,000 |
Financials
| Curr Year EPS Estimate | 3.79 |
| Profit Margin | 0.02 |
| Return on Assets | 0.04 |
| Return on Equity | 0.09 |
| Revenue | 4,549,100,032 |
| Earnings Per Share | 2.06 |
| Revenue Per Share | 93.91 |
| Gross Profit | 914,700,000 |
| Quarterly Revenue Growth | 0.03 |
Valuation
| Trailing PE | 29.06 |
| Price/Sales (Trailing 12 Mt.) | 0.63 |
| Price/Book (Most Recent Quarter) | 2.91 |
Dividend
Greif, Inc pays out a dividend of $1.76 per share, with a dividend yield of 3.18%.
GEF's last dividend payment was made to shareholders on April 1, 2021.
They pay out 55.17% of their earnings out as a dividend.
Recent Dividends
| Apr 1, 2024 | $0.52 |
| Jan 1, 2024 | $0.52 |
| Oct 2, 2023 | $0.52 |
| Oct 1, 2023 | $0.52 |
| Jul 1, 2023 | $0.50 |
| Apr 1, 2023 | $0.50 |
| Jan 1, 2023 | $0.50 |
| Oct 1, 2022 | $0.50 |
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