Karat Packaging Inc.
General ticker "KRT" information:
- Sector: Consumer Discretionary
- Industry: Packaging & Containers
- Capitalization: $553.6M (TTM average)
Karat Packaging Inc. does not follow the US Stock Market performance with the rate: -9.5%.
Estimated limits based on current volatility of 1.5%: low 24.64$, high 25.38$
Factors to consider:
- Company pays dividends (quarterly): last record date 2025-11-21, amount 0.45$ (Y7.21%)
- Total employees count: 721 (-10.5%) as of 2024
- Company does not operate outside US (retrieved using AI)
- Top business risk factors: Economic downturns and volatility, Supply chain disruptions, Regulatory and compliance, IT security, Acquisition/divestiture risks
- Price in estimated range
- Earnings for 9 months up through Q3 are below our estimates
Stock Forecast*
* forecast is subjective and experimental, should not be used for any investment decisions
Long term estimates were made for the period from 2024-12-31 to 2026-12-31
- 2024-12-31 to 2025-12-31 estimated range: [21.26$, 32.67$]
- 2025-12-31 to 2026-12-31 estimated range: [20.58$, 31.90$]
Financial Metrics affecting the KRT estimates:
- Positive: with PPE of 18.2 at the end of fiscal year the price was neutral
- Positive: 7.54 < Operating profit margin, % of 8.88
- Positive: 6.63 < Operating cash flow per share per price, % of 7.97
- Positive: Interest expense per share per price, % of 0.35 <= 0.74
- Positive: 2.95 < Industry operating profit margin (median), % of 6.18
- Positive: Return on assets ratio (scaled to [-100,100]) of 9.47 > 6.04
- Negative: Industry inventory ratio change (median), % of 1.63 > 0.28
- Negative: -0.76 < Inventory ratio change, % of -0.61
- Positive: Industry earnings per price (median), % of 6.06 > 4.45
- Positive: -4.41 < Investing cash flow per share per price, % of -0.97
- Positive: 42.53 < Shareholder equity ratio, % of 52.82 <= 64.17
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Financial data
| YTD | 2022-12-31 | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating Revenue | $422.93MM | $408.18MM | $425.38MM |
| Operating Expenses | $392.91MM | $366.10MM | $387.62MM |
| Operating Income | $30.02MM | $42.08MM | $37.76MM |
| Non-Operating Income | $2.50MM | $0.91MM | $2.93MM |
| Interest Expense | $2.02MM | $2.04MM | $2.12MM |
| Income(Loss) | $32.51MM | $42.98MM | $40.70MM |
| Taxes | $6.68MM | $9.80MM | $9.87MM |
| Profit(Loss)* | $23.65MM | $32.47MM | $29.98MM |
| Stockholders Equity | $141.68MM | $154.12MM | $155.57MM |
| Inventory | $71.21MM | $71.53MM | $70.72MM |
| Assets | $252.18MM | $276.40MM | $294.52MM |
| Operating Cash Flow | $29.47MM | $53.38MM | $47.98MM |
| Capital expenditure | $14.75MM | $9.33MM | $4.07MM |
| Investing Cash Flow | $-17.84MM | $-30.17MM | $-5.86MM |
| Financing Cash Flow | $-2.07MM | $-16.17MM | $-33.62MM |
| Earnings Per Share** | $1.19 | $1.63 | $1.50 |
* Profit(Loss) attributable to entity.
** EPS are Split Adjusted, recent splits may be reflected with a delay.