Insider buying last 90 days
No open-market insider purchases were filed for GEF in the last 90 days.
From Form 4 filings, dated to when each was filed.
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Gekko Brief
AI summaryOct 12 closeGreif has drawn mixed analyst attention this week, with Wells Fargo maintaining a Hold rating and a $90.00 price target, while separate commentary on rotational strategy timing points to neutral near and mid-term readings but a positive long-term bias for the stock. No new operational or deal news accompanies these views, leaving sentiment as the primary driver behind recent trading.
Shares closed at $78.68, down 3.8% on the day, sitting between the 50-day average of $84.47 and the 200-day average of $73.70. The stock has returned -4.4% over one month, 9.8% over three months, and 34.7% over six months, with a 52-week range of $55.75 to $90.57. The GekkoIndex reads 67.1, placing GEF in the Accumulation zone, up 5.2 over five sessions. Gekko Fair Value stands at $80.50, putting price 2.3% below that mark.
Greif's next earnings date falls on 3 November, 21 days out and before the open, which lands inside a typical 20-trading-day holding period; the prior quarter saw EPS of $0.48 against a $0.68 estimate with a 1.5% reaction. No insider, Congress, or unusual options activity appears in the current window. Seasonally, the next 20 trading days have averaged a 4.5% return across 5 years, with gains in 4 of them. Consensus among 3 firms includes 2 Hold and 1 Sell ratings, with a consensus target of $88.20.
Written by AI from the Oct 12, 2026 close and checked automatically against the figures on this page.
Greif price vs fair value
Close $78.68200-day averageGekko Fair Value $80.50
Greif quick facts
- Market cap
- $3.63B
- P/E ratio
- 37.1
- Forward P/E
- 9.3
- EPS, TTM
- $2.21
- Revenue, TTM
- $4.30B
- Profit margin
- 24.7%
- Dividend yield
- 5.04%
- Beta
- 0.79
- Volume
- 373,607 avg 397,154
- 1-year return
- +34.7%
- Typical daily move
- ±2.4%
- Typical 20-day move
- ±4.6%
- 50-day average
- $84.47
- 200-day average
- $73.70
- Next earnings
- Nov 3 before open
- Shares outstanding
- 24.81M
Greif swing-trade checklist
Greif scores 2 supportive, 2 mixed and 1 headwind across the 5 checklist items with data.
Six things swing traders check before a 20-day hold, read from the latest data.
2 supportive2 mixed1 headwind
- Trendmixed
Averages disagree
Close $78.68 sits between the 50-day ($84.47) and 200-day ($73.70) averages, or the averages disagree.
See the chart - GekkoIndexsupportive
67.1, Accumulation
Reading 67.1 is in the Accumulation zone.
See the GekkoIndex - Fair valuemixed
2.3% below
Price is within 5% of Gekko Fair Value (2.3% below).
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No data
No insider, Congress or unusual options activity in the window.
See smart money - Earnings riskheadwind
Reports in 22 days
Reports on Nov 3, 2026, 22 days away — inside a typical 20-trading-day hold.
See earnings - Seasonalitysupportive
+4.5% on average
From this point in the calendar, the next 20 trading days averaged +4.5% over 5 years, rising in 4 of them.
See seasonality
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Greif stock chart and price history
Greif closed at $78.68 on Oct 12, 2026, +34.7% over the past year, inside a 52-week range of $55.75 to $90.57.
Close50-day average200-day averageVolume
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Performance Breakdown
- 1 month
- −4.4%
- 3 months
- +9.8%
- 6 months
- +13.3%
- 1 year
- +34.7%
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About Greif
Greif designs, builds and sells packaging used in industrial settings, shipping its products and support services to businesses around the world. It is widely recognized for drums made of steel, fiber and plastic, as well as bulk containers, closures, protective shipping gear, water bottles and containers that have been refurbished for reuse. Alongside these goods, the company handles tasks like managing containers through their full lifecycle, filling them, and arranging logistics and storage for clients in chemicals, paints, food and drink, petroleum, coatings, farming, pharmaceuticals and minerals.
Operations fall into three groups. One, covering global industrial packaging, includes the items above and gives special attention to flexible bulk containers used in farming, building and food work. Another, paper packaging and services, turns out containerboard, corrugated sheets and assembled boxes, plus recycled paperboard and fiber, reaching customers tied to packaging, cars, food and construction materials whose cargo spans appliances, groceries, auto parts and furniture. A third unit, land management, oversees timber cutting and regrowth and handles sales of forested and specialty land.
Greif's stock can be found on the NYSE, trading under the symbol GEF.
- Listed
- NYSE
- Sector
- Process industries
- Industry
- Containers/Packaging
- Website
- greif.com
Greif GekkoIndex: the smart money zone
Greif’s GekkoIndex — Gekko’s 0 to 100 smart money score — reads 67.1, in the Accumulation zone, up 5.2 points over five sessions.
67.1Accumulation
Up 5.2 points over five sessions.
Reading for Oct 12, 2026
What followed past readings in each zone
| Zone | Readings | 5 days | 20 days | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buying | 44 | +1.3% | +4.7% | ||
| Accumulation (current zone) | 233 | +0.1% | +0.7% | ||
| Neutral | 374 | +0.3% | +0.9% | ||
| Distribution | 24 | −0.6% | +3.2% | ||
| Selling | 7 | Too few readings yet | |||
Average GEF share-price change over the trading days after each daily reading in its GekkoIndex history. Across every stock Gekko tracks, Accumulation readings averaged +2.2% over 20 days. Past behaviour doesn’t guarantee future results.
Accumulation zone: Institutional interest building. About the five zones →
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Is Greif stock overvalued? Gekko Fair Value
Greif trades 2.3% below Gekko Fair Value of $80.50, so the shares are about fair value on Gekko’s estimate.
Gekko’s own estimate of what Greif shares are worth, recalculated every trading day.
$80.50
Gekko Fair Value, Oct 10, 2026
2.3% below fair value · About fair value
At the end of Aug 2026 the price was 0.8% above the estimate.
Gekko Fair ValueShare price, month end
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Greif insider and Congress trading
No open-market insider purchases were filed for Greif, and no Congress trades were disclosed, in the last 90 days.
Plus buybacks, unusual options and fund positions, each dated to when it became public.
Congress trades last 90 days
No trades in GEF were disclosed by members of Congress in the last 90 days.
From congressional disclosures, which report amounts as ranges.
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Buybacks
Greif has been buying back its own shares.
- Bought back, quarter ended Jun 30, 2026
- $2.90M
- As a share of market cap
- 0.08%
From company filings.
Greif earnings: next date and track record
Greif reports on Nov 3, 2026, before the open (22 days away), and beat the EPS estimate in 1 of its last 8 reports.
Next earnings report
Nov 3, 2026
Expected before the open, 22 days away
- EPS estimate
- $1.15
- Revenue estimate
- $1.09B
1 of 8reports beat the EPS estimate
±4.1%average move across the report
4 of 8reports followed by a gain
Share-price move across each report
Last earnings call, Jan 31, 2026 AI summary
- What they said
- Greif's Q1 2026 earnings call showcased solid operating margin expansion and double-digit growth in adjusted EBITDA despite a still muted industrial demand backdrop. Management highlighted a 260 basis point improvement in EBITDA margin year over year, a 24% increase in adjusted EBITDA, and reaffirmed their 2026 guidance. The company emphasized structural cost optimization, strong free cash flow generation, and balance-sheet strength, enabling meaningful capital allocation including share repurchases and capex for growth. The commercial transformation from a “farmer” to a “hunter” approach, ongoing portfolio rationalization, and a disciplined capital deployment strategy (organic growth first, with tuck-in M&A as a secondary option) were highlighted. They noted a still cautious demand environment with some regional and end-market softness (fiber, tubes and cores, metals) but pointed to pockets of improvement in small plastics volumes and select regions. The company introduced and highlighted new barrier technology (SIOC) with orders in early deployment and anticipated broader ramp. The call conveyed modest optimism for volume progression into the back half of 2026, underpinned by cost reduction, capital discipline, and a robust balance sheet.
- Guidance
- - reaffirmed 2026 guidance with low-end adjusted free cash flow around $315 million and 50% conversion expectations; end-2026 leverage expected well below 2x; run-rate cost optimization of $80-90 million (with $65 million already realized in run-rate). Share repurchases: completed $130M of the planned $150M; incremental $300M authorization for buybacks, with a target of about 2% annual buyback; growth capex to fund organic growth and selective investments; capital allocation favors organic growth, with tuck-in M&A as a secondary, disciplined option.
- Risks flagged
- - Muted demand environment across multiple end-markets (fiber, chemicals, metals) with ongoing macro headwinds; housing market softness and residential remodeling activity; commodity price volatility (URB, OCC) and pass-through timing; ongoing inflationary pressures affecting costs; supply chain and manufacturing cost dynamics; volatile energy and freight costs; execution risk on transformational initiatives and the commercial restructuring (hunter vs farmer).
| Reported | EPS | Revenue | Move |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 31, 2026 | $0.48 est $0.68 | — | +1.5% |
| Dec 3, 2025 | $1.03 est $0.67 | — | +0.2% |
| Aug 27, 2025 | $1.03 est $1.21 | $1.13B est $715.7M | +1.0% |
| Jun 4, 2025 | $0.81 est $1.13 | $1.39B est $1.42B | +14.2% |
| Feb 26, 2025 | $0.39 est $0.73 | $1.27B est $1.43B | −8.8% |
| Dec 4, 2024 | $0.85 est $1.10 | $1.42B est $1.41B | −1.9% |
| Aug 28, 2024 | $1.03 est $1.14 | $1.45B est $1.42B | −2.0% |
| Jun 5, 2024 | $0.82 est $0.85 | $1.37B est $1.30B | −3.0% |
“Move” is the close of the first session after the report compared with the close of the last session before it, so it reads the same whether the company reported before the open or after the close.
Greif stock forecast and analyst price targets
Analysts’ average 12-month price target for Greif is $88.20, +12.1% from the last close, from 3 firms rating the stock in the last 90 days.
$88.20consensus 12-month target, +12.1% from the last close
Now $78.68Avg $88.20
Low $79High $94
Each firm’s latest rating in the last 90 days: 3 firms.
Latest analyst actions
| Date | Firm | Target | vs price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 12 | Truist Financial | $94 | +19.5% |
| Oct 8 | Wells Fargo | $90 | +14.4% |
| Oct 7 | Wells Fargo | $90 | +14.4% |
| Oct 5 | Bank of America Securities | $79 | +0.4% |
| Sep 18 | Truist Financial | $97 | +23.3% |
+0.7%average 20-day move after past Accumulation readings
+4.5%average move over the next 20 trading days in the last 5 years
±2.4%typical daily move, from the 14-day average range
Gekko doesn’t publish price predictions. These are analyst targets and historical base rates, which don’t guarantee future results.
Greif seasonality: the next 20 trading days
Over the next 20 trading days from Oct 10, Greif averaged +4.5% across the last 5 years, rising in 4 of them.
Next 20 trading days, by year
Average move and hit rate
| Window | Average | Years higher |
|---|---|---|
| Next 5 trading days | +0.3% | 3 of 5 |
| Next 10 trading days | +0.9% | 3 of 5 |
| Next 15 trading days | +0.2% | 2 of 5 |
| Next 20 trading days | +4.5% | 4 of 5 |
| Next 30 trading days | +8.6% | 5 of 5 |
For scale, GEF’s typical 20-trading-day move in either direction is about 4.6%.
Greif market cap and key statistics
Greif’s market cap is $3.63B, with a P/E ratio of 37.1 and revenue of $4.30B over the last twelve months.
Valuation
- Market cap
- $3.63B
- P/E ratio
- 37.1
- Forward P/E
- 9.3
- EPS, TTM
- $2.21
- Gekko Fair Value
- $80.50
Trading
- Volume
- 373,607
- Avg volume, 20 days
- 397,154
- 52-week high
- $90.57
- 52-week low
- $55.75
- Shares outstanding
- 24.81M
Financials
- Revenue, TTM
- $4.30B
- Profit margin
- 24.7%
- Return on equity
- 7.2%
- Quarterly earnings growth, YoY
- +43.4%
Risk and income
- Beta
- 0.79
- Typical daily move
- ±2.4%
- Typical 20-day move
- ±4.6%
- Dividend yield
- 5.04%
Greif stock news this week
2 headlines about Greif from the past week, newest first, each linking to the publisher.
- How Greif Inc. Class A (GEF) Affects Rotational Strategy TimingStock Traders Daily, Oct 12
- Analysts’ Opinions Are Mixed on These Consumer Cyclical Stocks: Greif Class A (GEF) and ARB Corporation (OtherARBFF)The Globe and Mail, Oct 9
Greif peers
Greif’s 6 largest industry peers by market value, with today’s move, GekkoIndex zone and gap to Gekko Fair Value.
| Stock | GekkoIndex zone | vs Fair Value |
|---|---|---|
| SWSmurfit WestRock | Accumulation | 17.0% below |
| PKGPackaging Corporation of America | Accumulation | 4.3% above |
| AMCRAmcor | Accumulation | 39.0% below |
| BALLBall | Neutral | 11.8% above |
| CCKCrown | Accumulation | 40.7% below |
| OCOwens Corning | Buying | 13.9% below |
A peer links to its own page where one exists.
Greif stock FAQ
What is Greif’s market cap?
Greif’s market cap is $3.63B at the Oct 12, 2026 close of $78.68, with 24.81M shares outstanding. The shares trade on a P/E ratio of 37.1.
What is the Greif stock forecast?
The consensus analyst 12-month price target for Greif is $88.20, +12.1% from the last close. Of the 3 firms that rated the stock in the last 90 days, 0 rate it a buy, 2 a hold and 1 a sell. Gekko doesn’t publish price predictions of its own.
Is Greif stock overvalued or undervalued?
On Gekko’s estimate Greif is about fair value: the Oct 12, 2026 close of $78.68 is 2.3% below Gekko Fair Value of $80.50. Gekko Fair Value is recalculated every trading day, and a gap inside 5% either way counts as about fair value.
When does Greif report earnings next?
Greif is expected to report on Nov 3, 2026, before the market opens (22 days away). Analysts expect earnings of $1.15 per share on revenue of $1.09B. Greif beat the earnings estimate in 1 of its last 8 reports, moving 4.1% on average across the report.
What is Greif’s 52-week high and low?
Greif’s 52-week high is $90.57 and its 52-week low is $55.75; it closed at $78.68 on Oct 12, 2026, +34.7% over the past year.
Is Greif stock a buy right now?
Gekko describes the data; it does not make buy or sell recommendations. On the swing-trade checklist, 2 of the 5 items with data read as supportive (gekkoindex and seasonality), 2 as mixed (trend and fair value) and 1 as a headwind (earnings risk). The checklist is a description of current data, not a recommendation.
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