An earnings miss prompts a sell alert on our first pick today, and double-digit earnings growth forecasts boost the potential for a global payments company.
Sell Graphic Packaging (GPK)
Updated from Investment Digest Issue 760, August 20, 2014
Graphic Packaging (GPK) was downgraded to Sell because of disappointing September-quarter results. Per share earnings were $0.17, up 42% but below the consensus of $0.20. Revenue rose only 5%. The stock’s Quadrix® Overall score is 75, down from 96 three months ago.
Richard J. Moroney, CFA, Upside, www.upsidestocks.com, 800-233-5922, November 3 2014