---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000043920-25-000051"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "GEF"
cik: "0000043920"
company_name: "GREIF, INC"
filed_at: "2025-08-29T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T09:20:28.274570+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Greif Q3 adjusted EPS beats; $1.8B containerboard divestiture, GC retirement

## Summary
- Net income from continuing ops $39.3M (-49.6% YoY); adjusted net income $60.4M (+11.6%), adjusted diluted EPS $1.03 vs $0.92.
- Combined Adjusted EBITDA $220.9M (+11%); adjusted free cash flow $170.7M, up $136.4M.
- Definitive agreement to sell containerboard business for $1.8B to Packaging Corp of America; closing effective Aug 31, 2025.
- Definitive agreement to sell timberlands for $462M to Molpus Woodlands Group; closing anticipated Oct 1, 2025.
- Board raised quarterly dividend: Class A +$0.02, Class B +$0.03; GC Gary Martz retiring, Dennis Hoffman to succeed Oct 1.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000043920-25-000051
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: GEF
- cik: 0000043920
- company_name: GREIF, INC
- filed_at: 2025-08-29T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/43920/000004392025000051/0000043920-25-000051-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/43920/000004392025000051/gef-20250829.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000043920-25-000051.txt

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.