Karat Packaging Inc.
General ticker "KRT" information:
- Sector: Consumer Discretionary
- Industry: Packaging & Containers
- Capitalization: $516.0M (TTM average)
Karat Packaging Inc. follows the US Stock Market performance with the rate: 48.6%.
Estimated limits based on current volatility of 2.0%: low 47.54$, high 49.30$
Factors to consider:
- Company pays dividends (quarterly): last record date 2026-08-21, amount 0.47$ (Y3.97%)
- Total employees count: 696 (-3.5%) as of 2025
- Top business risk factors: Regulatory and compliance, Market competition, Vendor failures, Economic downturns and volatility, Cybersecurity threats
- Current price 55.7% above estimated high
- Earnings for 6 months up through Q2 exceed 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 2025-12-31 to 2027-12-31
- 2025-12-31 to 2026-12-31 estimated range: [21.16$, 30.43$]
- 2026-12-31 to 2027-12-31 estimated range: [22.08$, 31.67$]
Financial Metrics affecting the KRT estimates:
- Positive: with PPE of 14.1 at the end of fiscal year the price was neutral
- Positive: 7.80 < Operating profit margin, % of 8.86
- Positive: 6.77 < Operating cash flow per share per price, % of 7.41
- Negative: Industry inventory ratio change (median), % of 0.68 > 0.27
- Positive: Interest expense per share per price, % of 0.45 <= 0.75
- Negative: Industry operating profit margin (median), % of 7.26 <= 9.99
- Negative: 42.26 < Shareholder equity ratio, % of 51.94 <= 63.63
- Positive: Return on assets ratio (scaled to [-100,100]) of 10.20 > 6.06
- Negative: 0 < Inventory ratio change, % of 0.67
- Positive: Investing cash flow per share per price, % of 5.56 > -0.64
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Long-term KRT plot with estimates
Financial data
| YTD | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 | 2025-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating Revenue | $405.65MM | $422.63MM | $467.25MM |
| Operating Expenses | $363.57MM | $384.87MM | $425.84MM |
| Operating Income | $42.08MM | $37.76MM | $41.41MM |
| Non-Operating Income | $0.91MM | $2.93MM | $1.61MM |
| Interest Expense | $2.04MM | $2.12MM | $2.06MM |
| Income(Loss) | $42.98MM | $40.70MM | $43.02MM |
| Taxes | $9.80MM | $9.87MM | $10.36MM |
| Net Income(Loss)* | $32.47MM | $29.98MM | $31.48MM |
| Stockholders Equity | $154.12MM | $155.57MM | $149.42MM |
| Inventory | $71.53MM | $70.72MM | $81.68MM |
| Assets | $276.40MM | $294.52MM | $287.69MM |
| Operating Cash Flow | $53.38MM | $47.98MM | $33.81MM |
| Capital expenditure | $9.33MM | $4.07MM | $4.50MM |
| Investing Cash Flow | $-30.17MM | $-5.86MM | $25.40MM |
| Financing Cash Flow | $-16.17MM | $-33.62MM | $-52.92MM |
| Earnings Per Share** | $1.63 | $1.50 | $1.57 |
* Profit(Loss) attributable to entity.
** EPS are Split Adjusted, recent splits may be reflected with a delay.