Consumer Discretionary / Packaging & ContainersUpdated 2026-05-10 22:07 UTC

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Market cap

19.9B

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Market data

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Sector context

Where the current metrics sit

Percentiles come from the backend screener cohort cache for the ticker's country and sector.

Forward P/E21.2

P25 11.5P50 15.8P75 23.1

Trailing P/E27.3

P25 13.1P50 20.6P75 33.1

ROE16.3

P25 -21.1P50 4.5P75 16.1

ROIC11.5

P25 -4.5P50 5.2P75 12.8

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Indicator catalog

All PKG market and fundamental indicators

A searchable catalog of the available market, valuation, profitability, growth, balance-sheet, ownership, and analyst metrics for this ticker.

Available fields

253

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Currency

USD

Showing 253 of 253 available metrics for this ticker.

Profile and market data

Ticker identity, listing, currency, market cap, and source dates.

Metric	Value
Cik	0000075677
Company name	Packaging Corporation of America
Country	United States
Country code	US
Cusip	695156109
Employees	16,800
Employees Change	1,400%
Employees Change Percent	9.09
Enterprise value	$23.6B
Exchange	NYSE
Financial currency	USD
First seen	2026-05-09
In Index	SP500
Industry	Packaging & Containers
IPO Date	2000-01-27
Isin	US6951561090
Last refreshed	2026-05-10
Market cap	$19.9B
Market cap category	Large-Cap
Price	$225
Price currency	USD
Rev Per Employee	548,577.38x
Sector	Consumer Discretionary
Sic	2650
Symbol	PKG
Website	https://www.packagingcorp.com

Valuation

Multiples, yields, enterprise-value ratios, and valuation checks.

Metric	Value
Earnings Yield	3.7%
EV Earnings	32.1x
EV Sales Forward	2.33x
EV/EBIT	17.88x
EV/EBITDA	12.04x
EV/Sales	2.56x
Forward P/E	21.2x
P/B ratio	4.33x
P/E ratio	27.29x
P/S ratio	2.16x
PE Ratio10 Y	17.83x
PE Ratio3 Y	21.43x
PE Ratio5 Y	18.66x
PEG ratio	2.07x
PS Forward	1.96x

Profitability

Margins, returns on capital, cash conversion, and quality metrics.

Metric	Value
EBIT Margin	14.35%
EBITDA Margin	21.3%
Gross margin	21.75%
Gross Profit	$2B
Gross Profit Growth	4.56%
Gross Profit Growth Q	-1.26%
Gross Profit Growth3 Y	-0.72%
Gross Profit Growth5 Y	6.5%
Net Income	$736.3M
Net Income Growth	-14.01%
Net Income Growth Q	-16.14%
Net Income Growth Years	0%
Net Income Growth3 Y	-8.41%
Net Income Growth5 Y	8.84%
Pretax Margin	10.64%
Profit Margin	8.04%
Profit Per Employee	$43,827
Profitable Years	22
ROA	8.37
Roa5y	9.45
ROCE	13.61
ROE	16.31
Roe5y	21.84
ROIC	11.55
Roic5y	15.83

Growth

Revenue, earnings, cash-flow, and forward growth indicators.

Metric	Value
Cagr10y	16.51%
Cagr15y	18.21%
Cagr1y	27.86%
Cagr20y	15.79%
Cagr3y	21.63%
Cagr5y	11.2%
Div CAGR10	8.56%
Div CAGR3	0%
Div CAGR5	6.91%
EPS Growth	-13.9
EPS Growth Q	-15.49
EPS Growth Years	0
EPS Growth3 Y	-7.67
EPS Growth5 Y	10.04
Revenue Growth	7.86x
Revenue Growth Q	10.59x
Revenue Growth Quarters	8x
Revenue Growth Years	2x
Revenue Growth3 Y	3.48x
Revenue Growth5 Y	6.41x

Financial strength

Debt, cash, solvency, accounting-quality, and balance-sheet signals.

Metric	Value
Asset Turnover	$0.93
Assets	$10.8B
Cash	$543.7M
Debt	$4.4B
Debt EBITDA	$2.05
Debt Equity	$0.95
Equity	$4.6B
Interest Coverage	13.38
Liabilities	$6.2B
Net Cash	$-3.8B
Net Cash By Market Cap	$-18.86
Net Debt EBITDA	$1.91
Net Debt Equity	$0.82
Tangible Book Value	$2.6B
Tangible Book Value Per Share	$29.61
WACC	7.54

Liquidity

Current-asset coverage and working-capital efficiency metrics.

Metric	Value
Current ratio	3.07
Inventory Turnover	6.01
Net Working Capital	$1.8B
Quick ratio	1.79
Working Capital	$2.2B

Dividends and buybacks

Dividend yield, payout, buybacks, and shareholder-yield indicators.

Metric	Value
Buyback Yield	0.08%
Dividend Growth	0%
Dividend Growth Years	0%
Dividend per share	$5
Dividend Years	24
Dividend Yield	2.23%
Ex Div Date	2026-03-13
Last Dividend	$1.25
Payout Frequency	Quarterly
Payout Ratio	60.75%

Performance and technicals

Returns, volatility, beta, momentum, RSI, and moving-average context.

Metric	Value
10Y total return	360.69%
1Y total return	27.84%
200-day SMA	211.6
3Y total return	79.95%
50-day SMA	215.1
50-day SMA vs 200-day SMA	50over200
5Y total return	70%
All Time High	250.8
All Time High Change	-10.46%
All Time High Date	2024-11-25
All Time Low	9.25
All Time Low Change	2,328%
All Time Low Date	2000-03-15
ATR	6.58
Beta	0.83
Beta1y	0.66
Beta2y	0.66
Ch YTD	8.9
High	227.2
High52	249.5
High52 Date	2026-02-12
High52ch	-9.99%
Low	223.2
Low52	178.3
Low52 Date	2025-05-09
Low52ch	25.95%
Ma50ch	4.41%
Premarket Change Percent	-0.01
Premarket Price	$223
Premarket Volume	329
Price vs 200-day SMA	6.14%
RSI	59.16
RSI Monthly	58.37
RSI Weekly	55.53
Sharpe ratio	0.91x
Sortino ratio	1.66
Total Return	2.31%
Tr YTD	9.54
Tr15y	1,129.78%
Tr1m	10.36%
Tr1w	3%
Tr3m	-5.42%

Analyst estimates

Ratings, targets, revisions, and forward estimate fields.

Metric	Value
Analyst Count	8
Analyst Count Top	2
Analyst Price Target Top	$222
Analyst Ratings	Buy
Analyst Ratings Top	Buy
Earnings EPS Estimate	$2.15
Earnings EPS Estimate Growth	-6.93
Earnings Revenue Estimate	2,414,180,392x
Earnings Revenue Estimate Growth	12.76x
Operating Income	$1.3B
Operating Income Growth	3.22
Operating Income Growth Q	-12.25
Operating Income Growth3 Y	-3.12
Operating Income Growth5 Y	7.54
Operating margin	14.35
Price target	$236
Price Target Change	$5.19
Price Target Change Top	$-1.38

Ownership and float

Institutional, insider, float, short-interest, and share-count fields.

Metric	Value
Float	86,803,172%
Float Percent	98.03%
Shares Insiders	1.69%
Shares Institutions	100.14%
Shares Out	88,544,951
Shares Qo Q	-0.56%
Shares Yo Y	-0.08%
Short Float	3.92%
Short Ratio	3.25
Short Shares	3.84

Other indicators

Additional ticker metrics that do not fit the primary research groupings yet.

Metric	Value
Average Volume	902,978.75x
Bv Per Share	51.81
CAPEX	$-845.5M
Ch10y	244
Ch15y	691.1
Ch1m	10.36
Ch1w	3
Ch1y	24.77
Ch20y	884.6
Ch3m	-5.97
Ch3y	65.91
Ch5y	46.64
Ch6m	11.99
Change	0.52%
Change From Open	-0.22
Close	223.4
Days Gap	0.74
Depreciation Amortization	616,850,000
Dollar Volume	102,465,594.1
Earnings Date	2026-04-22
Earnings Time	amc
EBIT	$1.3B
EBITDA	$2B
EPS	$8.23
F Score	4
Financing CF	787,300,000
Fiscal Year End	December
Founded	1,867
Graham Number	97.95575
Graham Upside	-56.38
Income Tax	$239M
Investing CF	-2,689,600,000
Is Primary Listing	1
Is Spac	No
Last Earnings Date	2026-04-22
Last Report Date	2026-03-31
Last Split Type	Never
Last10k Filing Date	2026-02-26
Lynch Fair Value	$72.75
Lynch Upside	-67.61
Ma150	212.9
Ma150ch	5.47%
Ma20	215.2
Ma20ch	4.37%
Net CF	-354,600,000
Next Earnings Date	2026-07-22
Open	225.1
Optionable	Yes
P OCF Ratio	12.85
Payment Date	2026-04-15
Position In Range	34.61
Pre Close	223.4
Price Date	2026-05-08
Price EBITDA	$10.13
Ptbv Ratio	7.58
Relative Volume	0.51x
Revenue	9,216,100,000x
SBC By Revenue	0.46x
Share Based Comp	42,700,000
Tax By Revenue	2.59x
Tax Rate	24.38%
Tr20y	1,778.09%
Tr6m	13.34%
Us State	Illinois
Volume	456,234
Z Score	3.79

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Income

PKG dividend yield, growth & safety

Yield, payout sustainability, and the multi-year growth streak.

Dividend yield

+2.2%

$5.00 annual per share

Payout ratio

+60.7%

Share of earnings returned as dividends. Below 60% is generally sustainable.

5Y dividend CAGR

+6.9%

0 consecutive years of growth

Total shareholder yield

+2.3%

Next ex-dividend date: 2026-03-13

Performance

PKG stock returns vs the market

Total return (incl. dividends) compared to S&P 500.

Ownership

Who owns PKG?

Insider, institutional, and short-interest positioning.

Institutional ownership

+100.1%

Float: +98.0% of shares outstanding

Insider ownership

+1.7%

Stake held by company insiders. Higher generally signals alignment.

Negative means the company is buying back shares.

Technical

PKG momentum and risk profile

RSI, moving-average stack, beta, and risk-adjusted return.

RSI (14)

59.2

Neutral momentum band

Price vs 200-day MA

+6.1%

50/200-day relationship not available

Beta (5Y)

0.83

Moves roughly with the market

Sharpe ratio

0.91

Risk-adjusted return — higher is better; >1.0 is solid.

Peers

PKG vs. sector cohort

Currency-neutral comparison: P/E, P/S, ROIC, 5Y revenue CAGR, and 1Y total return. Market-cap column appears only when every peer reports in the same currency.

Ticker	Name	Market cap	P/E	P/S	ROIC	5Y rev CAGR	1Y total return	Rating
ABNB	Airbnb Inc.	84B	34.7x	6.6x	15.9%	+29.9%	+14.9%	Mantenere
AMZN	Amazon.com Inc.	2.9T	32.6x	3.9x	13.5%	+12.1%	+44.5%	Ridurre
BKNG	Booking Holdings Inc.	128.6B	21.8x	4.6x	57.9%	+37.4%	-19.6%	Comprare

Questions

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