Barrington Research Predicts Quad/Graphics Q1 Earnings

Quad/Graphics, Inc. (NYSE:QUAD) – Barrington Research issued their Q1 2025 earnings per share (EPS) estimates for shares of Quad/Graphics in a research note issued on Friday, February 21st. Barrington Research analyst K. Steinke anticipates that the business services provider will earn $0.07 per share for the quarter. Barrington Research has a “Outperform” rating and a $10.00 price target on the stock. The consensus estimate for Quad/Graphics’ current full-year earnings is $1.08 per share. Barrington Research also issued estimates for Quad/Graphics’ Q2 2025 earnings at $0.09 EPS, Q3 2025 earnings at $0.26 EPS, Q4 2025 earnings at $0.37 EPS and FY2026 earnings at $0.87 EPS.

Several other brokerages have also issued reports on QUAD. Rosenblatt Securities reaffirmed a “buy” rating and set a $10.30 target price on shares of Quad/Graphics in a research report on Tuesday, February 18th. StockNews.com lowered Quad/Graphics from a “strong-buy” rating to a “buy” rating in a research report on Friday, January 31st.

Quad/Graphics Trading Down 8.2 %

Shares of Quad/Graphics stock opened at $6.01 on Monday. Quad/Graphics has a 1 year low of $4.06 and a 1 year high of $9.13. The firm has a market cap of $312.97 million, a PE ratio of -5.51 and a beta of 1.57. The stock has a fifty day moving average price of $7.00 and a 200-day moving average price of $6.20. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 8.35, a current ratio of 0.85 and a quick ratio of 0.56.

Quad/Graphics (NYSE:QUAD) last announced its earnings results on Tuesday, February 18th. The business services provider reported $0.36 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $0.38 by ($0.02). Quad/Graphics had a negative net margin of 1.90% and a positive return on equity of 58.44%. The business had revenue of $708.40 million for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $726.70 million.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

Several institutional investors and hedge funds have recently made changes to their positions in QUAD. SG Americas Securities LLC bought a new position in shares of Quad/Graphics during the 3rd quarter worth $54,000. PFG Investments LLC grew its stake in shares of Quad/Graphics by 17.3% during the 3rd quarter. PFG Investments LLC now owns 61,253 shares of the business services provider’s stock worth $278,000 after acquiring an additional 9,025 shares during the period. Harbor Capital Advisors Inc. grew its stake in shares of Quad/Graphics by 125.4% during the 3rd quarter. Harbor Capital Advisors Inc. now owns 72,538 shares of the business services provider’s stock worth $329,000 after acquiring an additional 40,363 shares during the period. Empowered Funds LLC boosted its stake in Quad/Graphics by 5.4% in the 3rd quarter. Empowered Funds LLC now owns 279,486 shares of the business services provider’s stock worth $1,269,000 after purchasing an additional 14,204 shares during the period. Finally, FMR LLC boosted its stake in Quad/Graphics by 1,103.6% in the 3rd quarter. FMR LLC now owns 22,050 shares of the business services provider’s stock worth $100,000 after purchasing an additional 20,218 shares during the period. Institutional investors own 39.52% of the company’s stock.

Quad/Graphics Increases Dividend

The company also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Friday, March 14th. Stockholders of record on Friday, February 28th will be paid a dividend of $0.075 per share. This is an increase from Quad/Graphics’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.05. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, February 28th. This represents a $0.30 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 5.00%. Quad/Graphics’s dividend payout ratio is presently -27.52%.

Quad/Graphics Company Profile

Quad/Graphics, Inc provides marketing solutions worldwide. The company operates through United States Print and Related Services, and International segments. It offers printing services, such as retail inserts, publications, catalogs, special interest publications, journals, direct mail, directories, in-store marketing and promotion, packaging, newspapers, custom print products, and other commercial and specialty printed products; and paper procurement services.