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GEF
Greif Inc
NYSE· Consumer Cyclical· Packaging & Containers· CUSIP 397624107
$83.13+1.50%Price as of Oct 23, 00:49 UTC · updated once a day, after the close
At a glance
Greif Inc (GEF) is listed on NYSE and classified in Packaging & Containers, part of the Consumer Cyclical sector. It is headquartered in Delaware, United States and has 12,000 employees. The company is worth $4.73B and trades at 37.6x its earnings of the last twelve months; the median for its sector is 17.7x. Revenue was $4.35B in fiscal 2024, up 4.3% from the year before. Net income was $268.8M. The share price is 8.2% below its 52-week high of $90.57. It pays a dividend yielding 2.84%, and has raised its annual dividend for 5 years in a row in our records. 4 of the 38 superinvestors we track held it at the end of Q2 2026. The largest position belongs to Cliff Asness (AQR Capital Management), at $52.17M. In that quarter, 2 of them opened or added to the position and 1 reduced it. No open-market insider trades in it were filed over the last 30 days.
Written from the data on this page: SEC filings (13F, Form 4, annual reports) and market prices.
Key metrics
- Market cap
- $4.73B
- P/E
- 37.6x
- Forward P/E
- 17.1x
- P/B
- 1.6x
- Dividend yield
- 2.84%
- Payout
- 106.79%
- EPS
- $2.21
- ROE
- —
- Profit margin
- 24.74%
- Revenue growth
- +3.50%
- Beta
- 0.79
- 52-week high
- $90.57
- 52-week low
- $55.75
History
Year by year, from the annual reports; dividends from the payments themselves.
Bars are year-end balances; lines are what happened during the year.
Investors holding this
Major managers that reported this stock in their latest 13F.
- Cliff AsnessAddedAQR Capital Management · Q2 2026$52.17M702.13K shares · 0.0% of portfolio
- Two SigmaAddedTwo Sigma Investments · Q2 2026$13.58M182.26K shares · 0.0% of portfolio
Ken GriffinHeldCitadel Advisors · Q2 2026$7.62M102.36K shares · 0.0% of portfolio- Israel EnglanderReducedMillennium Management · Q2 2026$5.53M74.23K shares · 0.0% of portfolio
Price over time
▲ +35.3% over 5Y.
today you would have $1,494.15▲ +49.4%
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
Indicators, year by year
The last 4 closed years, each at that year’s closing price and reported numbers.
| Indicator | Median | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year-end price | $61.12 | $65.59 | $67.06 | $60.37 | |
| P/E | 10.7x | 13.5x | 10.7x | 10.6x | 9.2x |
| P/S | 0.7x | 0.8x | 0.9x | 0.6x | 0.6x |
| P/B | 2.1x | 1.7x | 1.9x | 2.2x | 2.4x |
| EPS | $4.52 | $6.15 | $6.30 | $6.54 | |
| Dividend yield | 3.05% | 3.47% | 3.11% | 2.86% | 2.98% |
| Payout | 31.82% | 46.90% | 33.17% | 30.48% | 27.52% |
| Profit margin | 6.60% | 6.17% | 8.60% | 5.93% | 7.03% |
| ROE | 19.91% | 12.91% | 18.44% | 21.39% | 25.80% |
Median of the years shown; P/E years above 200x are left out.
Fair price, seven ways
Seven formulas applied to the reported numbers, each with its assumption next to the result. None of them predicts a price.
Earnings
$51.24
Square root of 22.5 × earnings × book value. Blind to intangibles, so it undervalues software and brands.
Earnings
—
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
Earnings
$39.03
Median P/E of 17.7 among peers in the sector.
Earnings
$23.55
Median P/E of 10.7 across this company’s own years on record.
Cash flow
—
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
Operating
$56.83
Sector median of 10.3x operating profit, less net debt. Banks have no EBITDA.
Dividends
$156.11
Dividend growing 6.4% a year against a 7.9% required return, from the stock’s beta.
How the average is calculated
The average of the method families that answered, not of the seven numbers: four of the seven start from the same earnings per share.
Earnings $37.94 (avg. of 3)+Operating $56.83+Dividends $156.11÷ 3 =$83.63
$83.63
5 methods answered, across 3 families.
$62.72
Room for errors in the reported numbers.
$83.13
+0.6% from the average.
Models, not forecasts, and not investment advice. How each formula works →
Others in the same sector
Companies of similar size in Consumer Cyclical, for comparison. The columns are the same ones above, in the same order.
| Stock | Price | P/E | P/B | Dividend yield | ROE | Market cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GOLFAcushnet Holdings Corp. | $81.97 | 22.3x | 5.2x | 1.24% | 25.24% | $4.79B |
| OPLNOPENLANE, Inc. | $38.05 | — | 3.0x | 0.00% | 11.15% | $4.64B |
| MATMattel Inc | $16.94 | 12.5x | 2.4x | 0.00% | 20.50% | $4.84B |
| GNTXGentex Corp | $21.74 | 11.5x | 1.8x | 2.21% | 16.36% | $4.58B |
| ATATAtour Lifestyle Holdings Ltd | $32.58 | 16.3x | 8.7x | 2.76% | 59.09% | $4.5B |
| SONSonoco Products Co | $50.27 | 7.8x | 1.4x | 4.30% | 18.86% | $4.97B |
About the company
- 12,000
- Delaware, United States