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GPK vs SW

Side-by-side comparison of Graphic Packaging Holding Company (GPK) and Smurfit WestRock plc (SW): market cap, price performance, sector, and recent activity on the wire.

Summary

  • Both GPK and SW operate in Containers/Packaging (Consumer Discretionary), so they compete in similar markets.
  • SW is the larger of the two at $21.65B, about 6.9x GPK ($3.12B).
  • Over the past year, GPK is down 52.6% and SW is down 6.1% - SW leads by 46.5 points.
  • GPK has been more active in the news (11 items in the past 4 weeks vs 9 for SW).
  • GPK has more recent analyst coverage (25 ratings vs 16 for SW).
PerformanceGPK-52.59%SW-6.12%
2025-06-09+0.00%2026-06-05
MetricGPKSW
Company
Graphic Packaging Holding Company
Smurfit WestRock plc
Price
$10.54-0.85%
$41.30-2.34%
Market cap
$3.12B
$21.65B
1M return
-5.89%
-1.48%
1Y return
-52.59%
-6.12%
Industry
Containers/Packaging
Containers/Packaging
Exchange
NYSE
NYSE
IPO
2024
News (4w)
11
9
Recent ratings
25
16
GPK

Graphic Packaging Holding Company

Graphic Packaging Holding Company, together with its subsidiaries, provides paper-based packaging solutions to food, beverage, foodservice, and other consumer products companies. It operates through three segments: Paperboard Mills, Americas Paperboard Packaging, and Europe Paperboard Packaging. The company offers coated unbleached kraft (CUK), coated recycled paperboard (CRB), and solid bleached sulfate paperboard (SBS) to various paperboard packaging converters and brokers; and paperboard packaging products, such as folding cartons, cups, lids, and food containers primarily to consumer packaged goods, quick-service restaurants, and foodservice companies; and barrier packaging products that protect against moisture, hot and cold temperature, grease, oil, oxygen, sunlight, insects, and other potential product-damaging factors. It also offers various laminated, coated, and printed packaging structures that are produced from its CUK, CRB, and SBS, as well as other grades of paperboards that are purchased from third-party suppliers; designs and manufactures specialized packaging machines that package bottles and cans, and non-beverage consumer products; and installs its packaging machines at customer plants and provides support, service, and performance monitoring of the machines. The company markets its products primarily through sales offices and broker arrangements with third parties in the Americas, Europe, and the Asia Pacific. Graphic Packaging Holding Company was incorporated in 2007 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

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