Karat Packaging Inc. (KRT)
NASDAQ · Rubber, Plastics & Stone · Plastics Products, NEC
- Price
- $53.05
- Day
- +1.63%
- Market cap
- $1.06B
- P/E
- 20.5
Close 2026-09-23.
The company
Our Company We are a rapidly-growing and nimble distributor and manufacturer of disposable foodservice products and related items, including food and take-out containers, bags, boxes, tableware, cups, lids, cutlery, straws, specialty beverage ingredients, gloves, janitorial supplies, and other products. Our products are available in plastic, paper, biopolymer-based, and other compostable forms. We are a leader in product innovation, offering a growing line of environmentally-friendly products to our customers, who are increasingly focused on sustainability. We also offer customized solutions to our customers, including new product development, design, printing and logistics services. We operate our business strategically and with broad flexibility to provide both our large and small customers with the wide spectrum of products they need to successfully run and grow their businesses. We believe we have established ourselves as a differentiated provider of high-quality products relative to our competitors. Our operating model entails generating the majority of our revenue from the distribution of products sourced from a diversified global network of nearly 150 vendors, complemented by select manufacturing capabilities in the U.S., which allows us to provide customers with broad product choices and customized offerings with short lead times.
From Item 1: Our Company.
By product & service
- National Distribution — 79%
- Online — 16%
- Retail — 5%
- Logistics Services — 1%
Institutional holders
Largest positions reported on Form 13F for the quarter ended 2026-06-30, by value.
- VANGUARD CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC — $13.05M
- BlackRock, Inc. — $11.43M
- Ranger Investment Management, L.P. — $11.13M
- AMERICAN CENTURY COMPANIES INC — $8.82M
- GEODE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC — $8.68M
- BANK OF MONTREAL /CAN/ — $7.72M
- TWO SIGMA INVESTMENTS, LP — $7.64M
- AQR CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC — $7.46M
Insider trades
Open-market buys and sales filed on Form 4, newest first. Grants, option exercises and tax withholding are left out.
- Cheng Marvin (VP-Manufacturing, Secy) sold 2,000 shares at $48.50 on 2026-09-08
- Cheng Marvin (VP-Manufacturing, Secy) sold 4,000 shares at $48.38 on 2026-09-04
- Cheng Marvin (VP-Manufacturing, Secy) sold 2,000 shares at $47.75 on 2026-09-01
- Cheng Marvin (VP-Manufacturing, Secy) sold 4,500 shares at $47.33 on 2026-08-20
- Guo Jian (Chief Financial Officer) bought 1,361 shares at $22.11 on 2025-11-12
- Yu Alan (Chief Executive Officer) sold 112,500 shares at $27.00 on 2025-06-27
Recent filings
- 4 — 2026-09-08
- 144 — 2026-09-02
- 4 — 2026-09-02
- 4 — 2026-08-21
- 4 — 2026-08-14
- 10-Q — 2026-08-07
- 8-K — 2026-08-06
- 8-K — 2026-08-05
- 8-K — 2026-06-17
- 4 — 2026-05-15