Sealed Air (SEE) has quietly outperformed the broader packaging space over the past quarter, and that kind of steady move usually signals that investors are starting to reassess the company’s earnings power and cash flow profile.
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Zooming out, Sealed Air’s roughly 25% 90 day share price return stands out against a more modest 1 year total shareholder return of about 20%. This hints that positive momentum has only recently started building.
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With earnings growing modestly and the share price still sitting below analyst targets despite a strong recent run, the key question now is whether Sealed Air remains undervalued or if the market is already pricing in its next leg of growth.
Against a last close of $42, the most followed narrative points to a fair value of about $45, framing Sealed Air as modestly mispriced.
The analysts have a consensus price target of $39.286 for Sealed Air based on their expectations of its future earnings growth, profit margins and other risk factors. However, there is a degree of disagreement amongst analysts, with the most bullish reporting a price target of $50.0, and the most bearish reporting a price target of just $31.0.
Want to see what justifies that higher fair value band? The narrative leans on rising margins, steady revenue momentum, and a lower future earnings multiple. Curious how those pieces fit together into this valuation story?
Result: Fair Value of $45.13 (UNDERVALUED)
Have a read of the narrative in full and understand what's behind the forecasts.
However, a deeper and longer downturn in high margin beef packaging, or persistent pricing pressure in Protective, could quickly erode the upside in this narrative.
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