River Road Loads Up on ATR With 917,000 Shares in New Position

According to a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing dated February 24, 2026, River Road Asset Management, LLC established a caller presumption successful AptarGroup (NYSE:ATR) by acquiring 917,670 shares. The estimated worth of this commercialized is $111.92 million. The quarter-end worth of the involvement besides totaled $111.92 million, reflecting the afloat interaction of the caller position.

This was a caller presumption for River Road, representing 1.23% of 13F reportable assets nether absorption arsenic of December 31, 2025.

Top 5 holdings aft the filing:

• NYSE:BJ: $306.44 cardinal (3.4% of AUM)

• NYSE:WTM: $251.19 cardinal (2.8% of AUM)

• NYSE:LAD: $246.81 cardinal (2.7% of AUM)

• NYSE:BRK.B: $225.15 cardinal (2.5% of AUM)

• NASDAQ:MGRC: $223.62 cardinal (2.5% of AUM)

As of February 28, 2026, AptarGroup shares were trading astatine $143.71, down 1.32% implicit the past twelvemonth and underperforming the S&P 500 by 18.68 percent points.

AptarGroup offers dispensing, sealing, and worldly subject solutions for the beauty, idiosyncratic care, location care, pharmaceutical, user wellness care, injectable, and nutrient and beverage markets.

The institution generates gross done the merchantability of proprietary pumps, closures, aerosol valves, elastomeric packaging, and progressive worldly subject solutions, with operations organized into Pharma, Beauty and Home, and Food and Beverage segments.

It serves planetary customers successful the pharmaceutical, user packaged goods, and nutrient and beverage sectors, distributing products done nonstop sales, autarkic representatives, and distributors crossed Asia, Europe, Latin America, and North America.

In the company’s fourth-quarter report, enactment noted that income accrued by 14%, with each halfway segments delivering maturation successful 2025. Last twelvemonth besides marked the 32nd consecutive twelvemonth of dividend increases, with a existent dividend output of 1.29%, arsenic of this writing.

AptarGroup focuses connected sustainability, with a committedness to sourcing 100% of its energy needs from renewable resources by 2030. The institution besides adheres to emissions simplification goals, aligning with the Science Based Targets Initiative. For investors seeking stocks focused connected reducing biology impact, this could beryllium a origin to consider.

Going forward, enactment expects the pharma conception to present beardown growth, peculiarly wrong injectables, user healthcare solutions, and systemic nasal cause delivery. Its quality and closures segments are besides expected to stay dependable successful 2026.