RBC Capital analyst Deane Dray maintained a Buy rating on Graco (GGG – Research Report) yesterday and set a price target of $103.00. The company’s shares closed yesterday at $83.13.
According to TipRanks, Dray is a 5-star analyst with an average return of 15.1% and a 63.73% success rate. Dray covers the Industrials sector, focusing on stocks such as Eaton, Pentair, and Atkore International Group.
Graco has an analyst consensus of Hold, with a price target consensus of $89.00.
GGG market cap is currently $15.06B and has a P/E ratio of 30.43.
Based on the recent corporate insider activity of 52 insiders, corporate insider sentiment is negative on the stock. This means that over the past quarter there has been an increase of insiders selling their shares of GGG in relation to earlier this year. Last month, Martha Morfitt, a Director at GGG bought 13,938.00 shares for a total of $337,299.60.
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Graco (GGG) Company Description:
Graco, Inc. is a manufacturing company, which designs, manufactures and markets systems and equipment used to move, measure, control, dispense and spray fluid and powder materials. It operates through the following segments: Industrial, Contractor and Process. The Industrial segment includes the Applied Fluid Technologies, Industrial Products and Process divisions. It markets equipment and pre-engineered packages for moving and applying paints, coatings, sealants, adhesives and other fluids. The Process segment markets pumps, valves, meters and accessories to move and dispense chemicals, oil & natural gas, water, wastewater, petroleum, food, lubricants and other fluids. The Contractor segment equipment includes sprayers that apply texture to walls and ceilings, highly viscous coatings to roofs and markings on roads, parking lots, athletic fields and floors. Graco was founded by Russell Gray and Leil Gray in April 1926 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.
