MARKETS / NYSE / GPK

NYSE · PAPERBOARD CONTAINERS & BOXES · LARGE CAP

Graphic Packaging Holding Co. GPK

17 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only

Revenue

$8.6B

▼ 2.2% YoY

Net income

$444.0M

▼ 32.5% YoY

In brief

What this company does

Graphic Packaging Holding Company designs and manufactures sustainable packaging solutions including cartons, multipack cartons, trays, carriers, paperboard canisters, as well as cups and bowls made primarily from recycled paperboard, unbleached paperboard and bleached paperboard. It serves a wide variety of consumer markets, from food and beverage, to foodservice, household products, beauty and health care. Its reportable segments are Americas Paperboard Packaging and International Paperboard Packaging. Americas Paperboard Packaging includes paperboard packaging sold primarily to consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies serving the food, beverage and consumer product markets and cups, lids and food containers sold primarily to foodservice companies and quick-service restaurants in the Americas. International Paperboard Packaging includes paperboard packaging sold primarily to CPG companies serving the food, foodservice, beverage and consumer product markets, including healthcare and beauty, outside of the Americas. As of December 31, 2025, the Company had more than 23,000 employees based in more than 100 locations in over 25 different countries around the world.

Written from the business description in GRAPHIC PACKAGING HOLDING CO's annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 2 March 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth

USD 8.6B

Revenue, FY2025 · full 17-year series below

Revenue $B Net income $B

FY2025 · Revenue 8.6 · Net income 0.4

Compound annual growth

Revenue

−3.0%

+5.6%

+7.5%

+5.1%

Net income

−5.3%

+21.6%

+6.8%

+28.2%

EPS, diluted

−4.3%

+19.8%

+7.8%

+29.7%

Returned to shareholders

+32.3%

−7.9%

+9.5%

3 yrs

5 yrs

10 yrs

15 yrs

Revenue compounded at +5.6% a year over five years — but profit grew faster: net income at +21.6%, earnings per share at +19.8%.

The share count rose from 0.27B to 0.30B over the period.

Compound annual rates per period — left blank where that exact year isn't on file, the series crosses a loss, or (per-share rows) a split falls inside the window.

Profitability

5 cents

of every revenue dollar became profit

Operating margin Net margin

FY2025 · Operating 9.4% · Net 5.2%

ROE

FY2025 · ROE 14.0%

Gross margin18.2%

Operating margin9.4%

Net margin5.2%

Return on assets3.9%

EBITDAUSD 1.3B

Each USD of equity produced 14 cents of profit this year.

Cash & shareholders

USD 278.0M

returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks

Free cash flow $M

FY2018 · FCF -752.6

Net buybacks $M Dividends $M

FY2025 · Dividends 128.0 · Net buybacks 150.0

Dividends paidUSD 128.0M

Net buybacksUSD 150.0M

Share of profit62.6%

Consecutive raises—

USD 128.0M in dividends and USD 150.0M in buybacks — 63% of the year's profit went back to shareholders.

Total assetsUSD 11.8B

EquityUSD 3.3B

CashUSD 261.0M

Gross debtUSD 5.5B

Net debtUSD 5.3B

Current ratio1.30×

Net debt stands at 158% of equity.

The 17-year record

17 fiscal years

Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD

row low → row highnegative

Metric	2025	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016	2015	2014	2013	2012	2011	2010	2009
Revenue $B	8.6	8.8	9.4	9.4	7.1	6.5	6.1	6.0	4.4	4.3	4.2	4.2	4.5	4.3	4.2	4.1	4.1
Operating income $B	0.8	1.1	1.2	0.9	0.4	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.3	0.4	0.4	0.2	0.3	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.3
EBITDA $B	1.3	1.7	1.8	1.5	0.9	1.0	1.0	0.9	0.7	0.7	0.7	0.5	0.6	0.6	0.5	0.5	0.6
Income tax $B	0.1	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.0	0.1	0.1	−0.0	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.1	0.1	−0.2	0.0	0.0
Net income $B	0.4	0.7	0.7	0.5	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.3	0.0	0.1
Free cash flow $B	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	−0.8	−0.4	−0.2	0.4	0.3	0.2	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.4
EPS, diluted $	1.48	2.16	2.34	1.69	0.68	0.60	0.70	0.71	0.96	0.71	0.70	0.27	0.42	0.31	0.73	0.03	0.16
Dividend / sh $	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·
Payout %	29	19	17	18	45	62	55	50	31	28	21	0	0	·	·	·	·
ROE %	14.0	22.7	29.3	25.8	12.3	11.2	13.1	15.4	25.6	21.1	21.8	8.6	14.4	11.4	28.9	1.4	·
Shares out B	0.30	0.30	0.31	0.31	0.31	0.27	0.29	0.30	0.31	0.31	0.32	0.33	0.32	0.34	0.39	0.34	·

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Provenance

Company facts, as filed

How we verify · 2 failures · 1 divergences in 77 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 14 of 19 fiscal years. 1 of those reconciliations are divergences — the figures exist but don't fit the formula this check expects; that isn't the same as an error. 12 checks could not be computed.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquiditymoeda_consistente2 failures1 divergent

ActivityPaperboard Containers & Boxes

Listed onNYSE

Incorporated inDelaware

Fiscal year endsDecember 31

Data on record since2009