NYSE:GGGGraco Stock Price, Forecast & News

Graco's stock was trading at $47.93 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization. Since then, GGG shares have increased by 0.0% and is now trading at $47.94. View which stocks have been mosted impacted by Coronavirus.

4 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Graco in the last year. There are currently 4 hold ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View analyst ratings for Graco.

Graco is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, April 22nd 2020. View our earnings forecast for Graco.

Graco will be holding an earnings conference call on Wednesday, April 22nd at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

Graco Inc. (NYSE:GGG) issued its quarterly earnings data on Monday, January, 27th. The industrial products company reported $0.48 EPS for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.39 by $0.09. The industrial products company earned $412.30 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $392.61 million. Graco had a return on equity of 34.45% and a net margin of 20.89%. The company's revenue for the quarter was up 1.5% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the firm earned $0.43 EPS. View Graco's earnings history.

Graco declared a quarterly dividend on Friday, February 14th. Stockholders of record on Monday, April 20th will be paid a dividend of $0.175 per share on Wednesday, May 6th. This represents a $0.70 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 1.46%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, April 17th. View Graco's dividend history.

Graco's stock split on Thursday, December 28th 2017. The 3-1 split was announced on Friday, December 8th 2017. The newly issued shares were payable to shareholders after the market closes on Wednesday, December 27th 2017. An investor that had 100 shares of Graco stock prior to the split would have 300 shares after the split.

4 brokerages have issued 1 year target prices for Graco's shares. Their forecasts range from $47.00 to $57.00. On average, they expect Graco's stock price to reach $51.33 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 7.1% from the stock's current price. View analysts' price targets for Graco.

News headlines about GGG stock have trended very negative recently, InfoTrie reports. The research group identifies positive and negative news coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Graco earned a media sentiment score of -3.3 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave headlines about the industrial products company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the next several days. View the latest news aboutGraco.

Graco saw a drop in short interest in February. As of February 28th, there was short interest totaling 3,030,000 shares, a drop of 9.6% from the February 13th total of 3,350,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 810,900 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 3.7 days. Approximately 1.8% of the company's stock are sold short. View Graco's Current Options Chain.

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Graco trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "GGG."

Graco's stock is owned by many different retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Mountain Pacific Investment Advisers Inc. ID (0.24%) and State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.02%). Company insiders that own Graco stock include Angela F Wordell, Bernard J Moreau, Caroline M Chambers, Dale D Johnson, David M Ahlers, Eric Etchart, J Kevin Gilligan, Jack W Eugster, Jeffrey P Johnson, Karen Park Gallivan, Lee R Mitau, Mark D Eberlein, Mark W Sheahan, Patrick J Mchale, Peter J O'shea, Sant R William Van, Timothy R White and William J Carroll. View institutional ownership trends for Graco.

GGG stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Mountain Pacific Investment Advisers Inc. ID, and State of Alaska Department of Revenue. View insider buying and selling activity for Graco.

Shares of GGG can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.

One share of GGG stock can currently be purchased for approximately $47.94.

Graco has a market capitalization of $8.08 billion and generates $1.65 billion in revenue each year. The industrial products company earns $343.85 million in net income (profit) each year or $1.90 on an earnings per share basis. Graco employs 3,700 workers across the globe. View additional information about Graco.

The official website for Graco is http://www.graco.com/.

Graco's mailing address is 88 - 11TH AVENUE N.E., MINNEAPOLIS MN, 55413. The industrial products company can be reached via phone at 612-623-6000 or via email at [email protected]