Greif Class A (GEF)
Makes industrial drums, bulk containers, fiber packaging, and closure systems.
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Manufactures steel, plastic, and fiber industrial packaging, including drums, intermediate bulk containers, tubes, cores, and closure systems, and earns service revenue from reconditioning and logistics. Product-based businesses serve a broad global customer base, while demand tracks industrial activity.
Manufactures industrial packaging across product-based businesses: Customized Polymer Solutions makes plastic drums, rigid intermediate bulk containers, and small plastic containers; Durable Metal Solutions centers on steel drums; Sustainable Fiber Solutions supplies fiber drums, recycled paperboard, tubes, cores, and specialty partitions; and Innovative Closure Solutions sells closure systems. Reconditioning, container life-cycle management, logistics, and warehousing extend the offering beyond new containers.
Serves chemical, food and beverage, agricultural, pharmaceutical, petroleum, coatings, construction, automotive, and other industrial customers in more than 35 countries, with roughly half of sales generated outside the United States. The sale of the containerboard business narrowed the portfolio while retaining recycled-paperboard and industrial fiber products. Demand follows industrial activity, raw-material costs are cyclical, and manufacturing is subject to environmental and workplace-safety regulation; no single customer is principal.
Company facts
Target rangeAs of Sep 21, 2026
Latest analyst notes
| Date | Firm | Action | Prior | Current |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 2026 | Truist Financial | Target | Target: $78 | Target: $97 |
| Jul 15, 2026 | Wells Fargo | Reiterate | Rating: —Target: $72 | Target: $74 |
| May 4, 2026 | Truist Financial | Target | Target: $79 | Target: $78 |
| Jan 29, 2026 | Robert W. Baird | Target | Target: $68 | Target: $75 |
| Jan 6, 2026 | Truist Financial | Target | Target: $71 | Target: $79 |
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RevenueReportedEstimate
Balance sheet, May 11, 2026Cash & short-term investments $288.5M · Total debt $1.23B · Total assets $5.70B · Shareholders' equity $3.00B
- Revenue
- $1.17B
- Operating income
- $123.1M
- Net income
- $77.8M
HistoryDividendAnnual yield
| Institutions | ≥ 52.43% | 24.19M shares | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 286 holders · as of Jun 30, 2026 | |||
| Insiders | 14.56% | 6.72M shares | |
| 29 holders · as of Sep 14, 2026 | |||
| Other | ≤ 33.01% | 15.23M shares | |
| remainder | |||
46.14M company shares as of Sep 22, 2026 · institutions as of Jun 30, 2026 · holders as of their latest filing
Institutional filings for GEF-B (46% of the company) are not on file here, so the institutional figure is a floor.
This company has 2 share classes; every stake here is a share of the whole company.
Top shareholders13F · 13D/G · Form 4
| Holder | Stake | Shares | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
BlackRock, Inc.Institution | 7.62% | 3.51M A | as of Jun 30, 2026 |
Nicholas J. PetittiInsider | 6.46% | 2.98M | filed Mar 1, 2022 |
Virginia D. RaganInsider10 percent owner | 6.38% | 2.94M B | filed Feb 13, 2025 |
Dimensional Fund Advisors LPInstitution | 4.35% | 2.01M A | as of Jun 30, 2026 |
Vanguard Portfolio Management LLCInstitution | 2.89% | 1.33M A | as of Jun 30, 2026 |
Insider tradesForm 4
| Date | Insider | Role | Shares | Avg price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 10, 2026 | Timothy Bergwall | officer: SVP, Chief Commercial Officer | −2,000 | $83.14 |
| Aug 24, 2026 | Bala Sathyanarayanan | officer: EVP, Chief Human Resources Off | −1,000 | $109.67 |
| Aug 10, 2026 | Timothy Bergwall | officer: SVP, Chief Commercial Officer | −2,000 | $87.06 |
| Aug 7, 2026 | Lawrence A. Hilsheimer | officer: EVP and CFO | −21,500 | $88.66 |
| Aug 6, 2026 | Lawrence A. Hilsheimer | officer: EVP and CFO | −20,254 | $88.51 |
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Compare
| Company | Price | Change | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Greif Class A | $84.69 | +1.64% | $3.85B | — | 16.5 | — | +2.7% |
| Amcor | $42.88 | +1.72% | $19.49B | — | 9.9 | — | +25.9% |
| Sonoco Products | $50.06 | +1.64% | $4.87B | 7.6 | 8.3 | 0.7 | −1.3% |
| TriMas | $38.53 | +1.77% | $1.36B | 1.6 | 19.6 | 1.8 | −36.5% |
| Median | 4.6 | 9.9 | 1.2 | −1.3% |