Consumer Discretionary / Packaging & ContainersUpdated 2026-05-10 22:07 UTC

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Fair value pending

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Market cap

560.4M

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Market data

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Current market quote for this ticker.

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Sector context

Where the current metrics sit

Percentiles come from the backend screener cohort cache for the ticker's country and sector.

Forward P/E15.4

P25 11.5P50 15.8P75 23.1

Trailing P/E17.8

P25 13.1P50 20.6P75 33.1

ROE20.9

P25 -21.1P50 4.5P75 16.1

ROIC15.9

P25 -4.5P50 5.2P75 12.8

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Indicator catalog

All KRT market and fundamental indicators

A searchable catalog of the available market, valuation, profitability, growth, balance-sheet, ownership, and analyst metrics for this ticker.

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Showing 263 of 263 available metrics for this ticker.

Profile and market data

Ticker identity, listing, currency, market cap, and source dates.

Metric	Value
Cik	0001758021
Company name	Karat Packaging Inc.
Country	United States
Country code	US
Cusip	48563L101
Employees	696
Employees Change	-25%
Employees Change Percent	-3.47
Enterprise value	$602.5M
Exchange	NASDAQ
Financial currency	USD
First seen	2026-05-09
Industry	Packaging & Containers
IPO Date	2021-04-15
Isin	US48563L1017
Last refreshed	2026-05-10
Market cap	$560.4M
Market cap category	Small-Cap
Price	$28.07
Price currency	USD
Rev Per Employee	691,186.78x
Sector	Consumer Discretionary
Sic	3089
Symbol	KRT
Website	https://www.karatpackaging.com

Valuation

Multiples, yields, enterprise-value ratios, and valuation checks.

Metric	Value
Earnings Yield	5.68%
EV Earnings	18.94x
EV Sales Forward	1.14x
EV/EBIT	14.49x
EV/EBITDA	11.47x
EV/FCF	20.8x
EV/Sales	1.25x
FCF yield	5.17%
Forward P/E	15.37x
P/B ratio	3.75x
P/E ratio	17.76x
P/S ratio	1.16x
PE Ratio3 Y	16.99x
PE Ratio5 Y	16.95x
PEG ratio	1.18x
PS Forward	1.06x

Profitability

Margins, returns on capital, cash conversion, and quality metrics.

Metric	Value
EBIT Margin	8.64%
EBITDA Margin	10.92%
FCF margin	6.02%
Gross margin	35.94%
Gross Profit	$172.9M
Gross Profit Growth	3.23%
Gross Profit Growth Q	1.87%
Gross Profit Growth3 Y	8.35%
Gross Profit Growth5 Y	13.24%
Net Income	$31.8M
Net Income Growth	5.27%
Net Income Growth Q	5.18%
Net Income Growth Quarters	2%
Net Income Growth Years	1%
Net Income Growth3 Y	6.97%
Net Income Growth5 Y	13.56%
Pretax Margin	9.04%
Profit Margin	6.61%
Profit Per Employee	$45,704
Profitable Years	7
ROA	8.74
Roa5y	8.76
ROCE	19.58
ROE	20.92
Roe5y	20.97
ROIC	15.93
Roic5y	15.17

Growth

Revenue, earnings, cash-flow, and forward growth indicators.

Metric	Value
Cagr1y	12.27%
Cagr3y	33.73%
Cagr5y	13.81%
EPS Growth	5.38
EPS Growth Q	5.57
EPS Growth Quarters	2
EPS Growth Years	1
EPS Growth3 Y	6.72
EPS Growth5 Y	7.7
FCF Growth	-35.49%
FCF Growth Q	-5.08%
FCF Growth3 Y	-11.9%
OCF Growth	-32.29%
OCF Growth Q	-6.93%
OCF Growth3 Y	-15.46%
OCF Growth5 Y	13.65%
Revenue Growth	11.71x
Revenue Growth Q	12.86x
Revenue Growth Quarters	8x
Revenue Growth Years	2x
Revenue Growth3 Y	5.19x
Revenue Growth5 Y	9.39x

Financial strength

Debt, cash, solvency, accounting-quality, and balance-sheet signals.

Metric	Value
Asset Turnover	$1.62
Assets	$282.7M
Cash	$34.4M
Current Assets	$161M
Current Liabilities	$70.4M
Debt	$76.6M
Debt EBITDA	$1.09
Debt Equity	$0.49
Debt FCF	$2.64
Equity	$155.2M
Interest Coverage	21.27
Liabilities	$127.5M
Long Term Assets	$121.6M
Long Term Liabilities	$57.2M
Net Cash	$-42.1M
Net Cash By Market Cap	$-7.52
Net Debt EBITDA	$0.8
Net Debt Equity	$0.27
Net Debt FCF	$1.45
Tangible Book Value	$143.7M
Tangible Book Value Per Share	$7.2
WACC	8.32

Liquidity

Current-asset coverage and working-capital efficiency metrics.

Metric	Value
Current ratio	2.29
Inventory Turnover	3.85
Net Working Capital	$81.3M
Quick ratio	1.09
Working Capital	$90.7M
Working Capital Turnover	$4.75

Dividends and buybacks

Dividend yield, payout, buybacks, and shareholder-yield indicators.

Metric	Value
Buyback Yield	0.03%
Dividend Growth	0%
Dividend Growth Years	4%
Dividend per share	$1.8
Dividend Years	5
Dividend Yield	6.41%
Ex Div Date	2026-05-21
Last Dividend	$0.45
Payout Frequency	Quarterly
Payout Ratio	113.9%

Performance and technicals

Returns, volatility, beta, momentum, RSI, and moving-average context.

Metric	Value
1Y total return	12.26%
200-day SMA	25.13
3Y total return	139.19%
50-day SMA	27.52
50-day SMA vs 200-day SMA	50over200
5Y total return	90.96%
All Time High	33.89
All Time High Change	-17.17%
All Time High Date	2025-02-18
All Time Low	12.5
All Time Low Change	124.56%
All Time Low Date	2022-12-16
ATR	1.11
Beta	0.9
Beta1y	0.61
Beta2y	1
Ch YTD	24.37
High	30.93
High52	32.68
High52 Date	2025-05-28
High52ch	-14.11%
Low	27.5
Low52	20.61
Low52 Date	2025-11-21
Low52ch	36.2%
Ma50ch	1.98%
Price vs 200-day SMA	11.69%
RSI	45.77
RSI Monthly	55.27
RSI Weekly	57.27
Sharpe ratio	0.39x
Sortino ratio	0.75
Total Return	6.44%
Tr YTD	26.59
Tr1m	-0.85%
Tr1w	-3.11%
Tr3m	10.52%

Analyst estimates

Ratings, targets, revisions, and forward estimate fields.

Metric	Value
Analyst Count	2
Analyst Ratings	Sell
Earnings EPS Estimate	$0.32
Earnings EPS Estimate Growth	-3.03
Earnings Revenue Estimate	112,986,712x
Earnings Revenue Estimate Growth	9.04x
Operating Income	$41.6M
Operating Income Growth	8.72
Operating Income Growth Q	8.47
Operating Income Growth3 Y	7.68
Operating Income Growth5 Y	8.72
Operating margin	8.64
Price target	$26.5
Price Target Change	$-5.59

Ownership and float

Institutional, insider, float, short-interest, and share-count fields.

Metric	Value
Float	8,408,346%
Float Percent	42.12%
Net Borrowing	-12,838,000
Shares Insiders	57.88%
Shares Institutions	32.98%
Shares Out	19,963,731
Shares Qo Q	-0.25%
Shares Yo Y	-0.03%
Short Float	1.9%
Short Ratio	1.85
Short Shares	0.8

Other indicators

Additional ticker metrics that do not fit the primary research groupings yet.

Metric	Value
Adjusted FCF	$27.9M
Average Volume	86,701.55x
Bv Per Share	7.39
CAPEX	$-4.3M
Ch1m	-0.85
Ch1w	-3.11
Ch1y	4.51
Ch3m	8.59
Ch3y	96.84
Ch5y	53.22
Ch6m	24.78
Change	-7.69%
Change From Open	-9.25
Close	30.41
Days Gap	1.71
Depreciation Amortization	10,944,000
Dollar Volume	4,277,082
Earnings Date	2026-05-07
Earnings Time	amc
EBIT	$41.6M
EBITDA	$52.5M
EPS	$1.58
F Score	6
FCF	$29M
FCF EV Yield	4.81x
FCF Per Share	$1.45
Financing CF	-52,055,000
Fiscal Year End	December
Founded	2,000
Goodwill	3,510,000
Graham Number	16.20565
Graham Upside	-42.27
Income Tax	$10.5M
Investing CF	14,982,000
Ipr	75.44
Iprfo	50.91
Is Primary Listing	1
Is Spac	No
Last Earnings Date	2026-05-07
Last Report Date	2026-03-31
Last Split Type	Never
Last10k Filing Date	2026-03-13
Lynch Fair Value	$21.42
Lynch Upside	-23.67
Ma150	25.02
Ma150ch	12.19%
Ma20	29.07
Ma20ch	-3.43%
Net CF	-3,793,000
Next Earnings Date	2026-08-06
Open	30.93
Optionable	No
P FCF Ratio	19.34
P OCF Ratio	16.84
Payment Date	2026-05-28
Position In Range	16.62
Post Close	28.07
Postmarket Change Percent	1.96
Postmarket Price	$28.62
Ppne	116,405,000
Price Date	2026-05-08
Price EBITDA	$10.67
Ptbv Ratio	3.9
Relative Volume	1.76x
Revenue	481,066,000x
SBC By Revenue	0.22x
Share Based Comp	1,078,000
Tax By Revenue	2.18x
Tax Rate	24.11%
Tr6m	29.78%
Us State	California
Volume	152,372
Z Score	5.29

Fast facts

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Risk gate

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Moat score

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Business quality stays separate from stock attractiveness.

Forward P/E

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Valuation uses the full report model stack, not a single multiple.

Next action

Research pending

Final action steps are kept in the recommendation tab.

Income

KRT dividend yield, growth & safety

Yield, payout sustainability, and the multi-year growth streak.

Dividend yield

+6.4%

$1.80 annual per share

Payout ratio

+113.9%

Share of earnings returned as dividends. Below 60% is generally sustainable.

5Y dividend CAGR

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4 consecutive years of growth

Total shareholder yield

+6.4%

Next ex-dividend date: 2026-05-21

Performance

KRT stock returns vs the market

Total return (incl. dividends) compared to S&P 500.

Ownership

Who owns KRT?

Insider, institutional, and short-interest positioning.

Institutional ownership

+33.0%

Float: +42.1% of shares outstanding

Insider ownership

+57.9%

Stake held by company insiders. Higher generally signals alignment.

Negative means the company is buying back shares.

Technical

KRT momentum and risk profile

RSI, moving-average stack, beta, and risk-adjusted return.

RSI (14)

45.8

Neutral momentum band

Price vs 200-day MA

+11.7%

50/200-day relationship not available

Beta (5Y)

0.90

Moves roughly with the market

Sharpe ratio

0.39

Risk-adjusted return — higher is better; >1.0 is solid.

Peers

KRT vs. sector cohort

Currency-neutral comparison: P/E, P/S, ROIC, 5Y revenue CAGR, and 1Y total return. Market-cap column appears only when every peer reports in the same currency.

Ticker	Name	Market cap	P/E	P/S	ROIC	5Y rev CAGR	1Y total return	Rating
ABNB	Airbnb Inc.	84B	34.7x	6.6x	15.9%	+29.9%	+14.9%	持有
AMZN	Amazon.com Inc.	2.9T	32.6x	3.9x	13.5%	+12.1%	+44.5%	减持
BKNG	Booking Holdings Inc.	128.6B	21.8x	4.6x	57.9%	+37.4%	-19.6%	买入

Questions

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