Packaging Corporation of America (PKG): Price and Financial Metrics

PKG POWR Grades

• Quality is the dimension where PKG ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 96.22% of US stocks.
• PKG's strongest trending metric is Value; it's been moving down over the last 177 days.
• PKG's current lowest rank is in the Value metric (where it is better than 14.86% of US stocks).

PKG Stock Summary

• PACKAGING CORP OF AMERICA's market capitalization of $13,948,229,342 is ahead of 87.3% of US-listed equities.
• For PKG, its debt to operating expenses ratio is greater than that reported by 80.79% of US equities we're observing.
• In terms of volatility of its share price, PKG is more volatile than merely 14.43% of stocks we're observing.
• Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to PACKAGING CORP OF AMERICA are DGX, LEA, COTY, AVTR, and SNX.
• PKG's SEC filings can be seen here. And to visit PACKAGING CORP OF AMERICA's official web site, go to www.packagingcorp.com.

PKG Valuation Summary

• In comparison to the median Consumer Cyclical stock, PKG's price/sales ratio is 128.57% higher, now standing at 1.6.
• PKG's price/sales ratio has moved up 0.4 over the prior 243 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for PKG.

PKG Growth Metrics

Its 4 year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at 56.02%.
• Its 4 year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at 200.79%.
• The year over year price growth rate now stands at 7.15%.

Over the past 70 months, PKG's revenue has gone up $2,563,500,000.

The table below shows PKG's growth in key financial areas (numbers in millions of US dollars).

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2022-12-31	8,478	1,495	1,029.8
2022-09-30	8,542.8	1,465.6	1,034.7
2022-06-30	8,417	1,318.6	1,022.9
2022-03-31	8,059.6	1,227.8	928.7
2021-12-31	7,730.3	1,094.1	841.1
2021-09-30	7,401.4	974.5	748.1

PKG's Quality Factors

The “Quality” component of the POWR Ratings focuses on 31 different factors of a companies fundamentals and operational strength. Here are some key insights as we drill into the specifics of these quality attributes.

• PKG has a Quality Grade of B, ranking ahead of 89.98% of graded US stocks.
• PKG's asset turnover comes in at 0.946 -- ranking 3rd of 11 Shipping Containers stocks.
• GEF, SON, and WRK are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with PKG.

The table below shows PKG's key quality metrics over time.