Barclays PLC Grows Holdings in Quad/Graphics, Inc. (NYSE:QUAD)

Barclays PLC grew its holdings in shares of Quad/Graphics, Inc. (NYSE:QUAD) by 323.3% in the 3rd quarter, according to the company in its most recent 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The fund owned 42,763 shares of the business services provider’s stock after buying an additional 32,661 shares during the quarter. Barclays PLC owned 0.08% of Quad/Graphics worth $195,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

Several other institutional investors and hedge funds also recently made changes to their positions in the business. Cubist Systematic Strategies LLC boosted its stake in shares of Quad/Graphics by 20.7% during the 2nd quarter. Cubist Systematic Strategies LLC now owns 23,486 shares of the business services provider’s stock valued at $128,000 after buying an additional 4,023 shares during the last quarter. Martingale Asset Management L P lifted its stake in Quad/Graphics by 5.4% during the third quarter. Martingale Asset Management L P now owns 93,712 shares of the business services provider’s stock worth $425,000 after purchasing an additional 4,808 shares during the last quarter. Exchange Traded Concepts LLC lifted its stake in Quad/Graphics by 3.5% during the third quarter. Exchange Traded Concepts LLC now owns 232,999 shares of the business services provider’s stock worth $1,058,000 after purchasing an additional 7,914 shares during the last quarter. PFG Investments LLC lifted its stake in Quad/Graphics by 17.3% during the third quarter. PFG Investments LLC now owns 61,253 shares of the business services provider’s stock worth $278,000 after purchasing an additional 9,025 shares during the last quarter. Finally, State Street Corp lifted its stake in Quad/Graphics by 2.0% during the third quarter. State Street Corp now owns 539,071 shares of the business services provider’s stock worth $2,447,000 after purchasing an additional 10,431 shares during the last quarter. 39.52% of the stock is currently owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

Several brokerages recently issued reports on QUAD. Rosenblatt Securities raised their price objective on Quad/Graphics from $7.70 to $10.30 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research note on Monday, November 25th. Barrington Research restated an “outperform” rating and set a $10.00 price objective on shares of Quad/Graphics in a research note on Tuesday, November 26th. Finally, StockNews.com upgraded Quad/Graphics from a “buy” rating to a “strong-buy” rating in a research note on Saturday, January 4th.

Quad/Graphics Stock Performance

QUAD stock opened at $6.84 on Wednesday. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 8.35, a quick ratio of 0.56 and a current ratio of 0.85. The stock has a market capitalization of $356.61 million, a price-to-earnings ratio of -4.15 and a beta of 1.59. Quad/Graphics, Inc. has a 1 year low of $4.06 and a 1 year high of $9.13. The stock’s fifty day moving average is $7.30 and its two-hundred day moving average is $5.95.

Quad/Graphics (NYSE:QUAD) last posted its earnings results on Monday, October 28th. The business services provider reported $0.26 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.20 by $0.06. The company had revenue of $674.80 million for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $654.90 million. Quad/Graphics had a positive return on equity of 42.63% and a negative net margin of 2.82%. During the same period last year, the business posted $0.11 earnings per share. On average, research analysts predict that Quad/Graphics, Inc. will post 0.84 EPS for the current year.

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.