Consumer Defensive
Graham Holdings Company(GHC)
Live Price
Offline$1,144.66
+1.71% today
1Y Change
+24.09%
Window
Jun 25, 2025 โ Jun 24, 2026
- Market Cap
- $4.89B
- Revenue Growth
- +2.5%
- EPS Growth
- -59.2%
- Dividend Yield
- 0.7%
Coverage: 251 bars ยท Jun 25, 2025 โ Jun 24, 2026
Research Briefing
A compact read on the setup, peer context, quarterly changes, and recent earnings reaction.
Research Snapshot
Graham Holdings Company (GHC) is a Consumer Defensive stock with a market cap of $4.89B and listed on NYSE. The stock last traded around $1144.66 and up 24.1% across the available one-year price window (Jun 25, 2025 โ Jun 24, 2026). Baseline metrics include revenue growth of +2.5%, EPS growth of -59.2%, a dividend yield of 0.7%. What stands out right now is revenue +2.5%, EPS -59.2%, free cash flow -17.4% with operating margin 6.9% and ROIC 2.4%. The dividend is present but secondary, with a yield around 0.7%. Valuation is more restrained than many high-expectation growth names at P/E 16.3 and price/sales 1.3. Overall, the current profile looks closer to a turnaround or cyclical reset than a generic broad-market placeholder. Stock Foundry combines GHC price history, valuation, growth, dividend context, earnings, analyst forecasts, news, related Consumer Defensive peers on this page.
Sector Context
How this name stacks up against nearby peers on first-pass metrics.
Revenue Growth
Near sector median
+2.5% vs +1.7% peer median
Operating Margin
Near sector median
+6.9% vs +6.6% peer median
P/E
Above sector median
16.3 vs 14.0 peer median
What Changed This Quarter
Latest report context and the signals most likely to have changed the story.
Latest report is on the board
2026 was reported on Apr 29, 2026, but the surprise data is still limited.
The operating picture looks softer than before
Revenue is at +2.5% and EPS is at -59.2%, with operating margin around 6.9%.
Shareholder return is still part of the story
The stock is still offering a dividend yield around 0.7%, which matters if the thesis depends on income as much as growth.
Earnings Reaction Memory
How the stock has tended to move after recent reports.
Across the last 3 reported quarters, the stock averaged -0.1% over the next 5 trading days and finished higher after 1 of those reports.
View quarter-by-quarter reaction table
| Quarter | EPS ฮ | 1D | 5D | 20D |
|---|---|---|---|---|
2026 Apr 29, 2026 | โ | -2.4% | -2.4% | -2.3% |
2026 Feb 25, 2026 | -18.5% | +1.3% | +2.5% | +1.8% |
2025 Oct 29, 2025 | +0.2% | +0.0% | -0.5% | +4.7% |
Benchmark Edge
GHC vs SPY, QQQ, and Sector ETFs
Normalized return, excess return, max drawdown, and calendar-year wins against the benchmarks investors actually use.
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Excess Return
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Relative to SPY
GHC Max Drawdown
-19.83%
Trailing 1Y
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Calendar-Year Returns
Uses the longest available daily history for GHC and SPY.
Company Overview
Graham Holdings Company
New York Stock Exchange
Graham Holdings Company, through its subsidiaries, operates as a diversified education and media company worldwide. It provides test preparation services and materials; data science and training services; professional training and exam preparation for professional certifications and licensures; and non-academic operations support services to the Purdue University Global. The company also offers training, test preparation, and degrees for accounting and financial services professionals; English-language training, academic preparation programs, and test preparation for English proficiency exams; and A-level examination preparation services, as well as operates three colleges, a business school, a higher education institution, and an online learning institution. In addition, it owns and operates seven television stations; and provides social media management tools to connect newsrooms with their users, as well as produces Foreign Policy magazine and ForeignPolicy.com website. Further, the company publishes Slate, an online magazine; and two French-language news magazine websites at slate.fr and slateafrique.com. Additionally, it provides social media marketing solutions; home health and hospice services; burners, igniters, dampers, and controls; screw jacks, linear actuators and related linear motion products, and lifting systems; pressure impregnated kiln-dried lumber and plywood products; cybersecurity training solutions; digital advertising services; and power charging and data systems, industrial and commercial indoor lighting solutions, and electrical components and assemblies. The company also owns and operates 11 restaurants and entertainment venues; and engages in automobile dealerships business. The company was formerly known as The Washington Post Company and changed its name to Graham Holdings Company in November 2013. Graham Holdings Company was founded in 1877 and is based in Arlington, Virginia.
- Leadership
- Timothy J. O'Shaughnessy
- IPO Date
- Aug 4, 1947
- Employees
- 15.4k
- Street Address
- 1300 North 17th Street
- Mailing
- Arlington, VA, 22209
- Region
- Arlington, VA, US
- Reporting Currency
- USD
- Investor Line
- 703 345 6300
- Last Updated
- Apr 29, 2026
Key Fundamentals
Valuation, growth, profitability, and balance sheet signals.
Valuation
- P/E
- 16.3
- EV/EBITDA
- 8.3
- Price/Sales
- 1.3
- Price/Book
- 1.0
Growth
- Revenue
- +2.5%
- EPS
- -59.2%
- Free Cash Flow
- -17.4%
Profitability
- Gross Margin
- 29.2%
- Operating Margin
- 6.9%
- Net Margin
- 7.9%
- ROE
- 6.5%
- ROIC
- 2.4%
Balance Sheet
- Debt/Equity
- 0.26
- Current Ratio
- 1.79
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