How is Packaging Corporation of America (PKG) doing?

Packaging Corporation of America is a company in the packaging & containers industry, based in Lake Forest, IL, worth $20.5B. Here is how its shares and business compare with the rest of the market, and where it shows up on our dashboards.

Updated Oct 9, 2026

P3 score

Middling

Packaging Corporation of America shares are up 8% over the past year, 7 points behind the S&P 500. Its type is Churning Winner. Among large US stocks and funds it ranks in the 58th percentile on market beat, the 26th on staying power and the 59th on business growth. It appears on 3 of our dashboards.

$230.51+8% in a yearWorth $20.5B

Compare with IP · SW · GPK · AMCR · AVY

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Past year

The past year

Price against the S&P 500, each set to $100 a year ago. Score is its weekly rank against the market. Select a tile for that score month by month.

PKG against the S&P 500, past year

$100 a year ago. Packaging Corporation of America +8%, the S&P 500 +16%.

PKGS&P 500

What kind of stock is it?

Its type on Stox Atlas, from its four scores: beating or lagging the market, a steady or erratic rank, a growing or slowing business, and whether buyers or sellers lead.

Churning Winner

BeatingErraticGrowingSold

Beating the market on a growing business, but erratically, and with sellers in charge lately.

NovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepNow

Churning Winner this month; Show-Me Grower before that.

Also Churning Winner (52 in all): BWA · BALL · SNDR · LEA · XPO · CR

EmbracedToppingAccumulatingRejectedStable rankBellwetherDistribution TopCoiled SpringWallflowerHolding rankFaith TradeRolling OverBottom FishedSleepy StapleUnsteady rankHot HandChurning WinnerTurning UpShow-Me GrowerBouncy rankSpeculative PopExhausted RallyFalling KnifeBroken Year

How is it doing against its group?

Its group is Industrials / SMID, 133 large US stocks and funds whose prices tend to move together. Broad industrial and small/mid-cap cyclicals — the economy beta.

PKG, past year+8%62 of 133 in the group

Rest of the group+11%equal-weighted

S&P 500+16%past year

Packaging Corporation of America is +8% over the past year, against +11% for the rest of the group and +16% for the S&P 500. It ranks 62nd of 133 in Industrials / SMID.

PKGRest of the group

Best in the groupAVT Avnet+92%ARW Arrow Electronics+89%LFUS Littelfuse+65%

Worst in the groupGPK Graphic Packaging−56%APTV Aptiv−48%THO Thor Industries−39%

Its closest rivalsIP International Paper−31%SW Smurfit Westrock−5%GPK Graphic Packaging−56%AMCR Amcor+5%

All cyclical stocks ›Industrials / SMID on Stox ›

How much does it move?

Its typical daily move, against its own past year, the market and other large stocks. Swings describe risk, not direction.

About usual Packaging Corporation of America typically moves 2.1% in a day, about usual for it, and it swings less than 70% of large US stocks.

Typical day2.1%about $4.88 a share

Its usual2.6%about usual, 0.8× its year’s average

Against the S&P 5002.3×the index’s typical day is 1.1%

Unusual day±4.2%twice its typical day

Deepest fall, past year−18%now 10% below its high

In the S&P’s down weeks27%of the index’s fall, three years; beta 0.6

Typical daily move (ATR)Its year’s average 2.59%

PKG on our dashboards

Every question where Packaging Corporation of America appears, in the order of the home page, with its reading and place in that table. Select a question to open it with PKG highlighted. Select a column to sort.

Question	Reading	Place	Details
Who reports next, and what is expected? Earnings	18Cut	70 of 106	Estimate change, 1M −0.2% · Expected EPS growth +25% · Stock vs S&P, 1M −3.6 pts
Which companies do analysts expect to grow fastest? Earnings	91Fast	44 of 60	EPS growth +30% · This year 10.48 · Next year 13.61
Which stocks are cheap for their growth? Value	94Cheap	45 of 60	PEG 0.76 · Forward P/E 22.6× · Expected EPS growth +30%

Go deeper on Stox

PKG’s full profile: financial statements, earnings and analysts’ estimates, valuation against its sector, recent news with a summary, and its scores in detail.

Open PKG on Stox ›All 16 types on Atlas ›Its group on Stox ›

How to read this page

How it’s measured. Scores from Stox rank the stock against about 1,200 S&P 500, Nasdaq-100 and Russell 1000 stocks and popular funds, where 100 is best; market beat and staying power use prices, business growth uses revenue, margins and cash flow. Readings on other dashboards come from this site’s pages.

Sources. Daily prices and company financial statements from Financial Modeling Prep; scores and co-movement groups from Stox.

Scores are percentiles: 80 means the stock ranks above 80% of the others on that measure. They describe the recent past and are not advice or a forecast.

Its type follows Stox Atlas: each of the four scores is split at 50. “Steady” means its rank has held, high or low, so it says nothing on its own about direction.

Its group is the cluster of large US stocks whose prices have moved together over five years, with the market’s own moves taken out. The typical daily move is the average true range over 14 days, a measure of how far the price travels in a day including overnight gaps.

For financial statements, earnings and news, see PKG’s full profile on Stox.

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