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 91.74% of US stocks.
• PKG's strongest trending metric is Stability; it's been moving down over the last 177 days.
• PKG's current lowest rank is in the Sentiment metric (where it is better than 11.75% of US stocks).

PKG Stock Summary

• PACKAGING CORP OF AMERICA's market capitalization of $12,545,824,798 is ahead of 86.19% of US-listed equities.
• With a year-over-year growth in debt of -18.77%, PACKAGING CORP OF AMERICA's debt growth rate surpasses just 16.09% of about US stocks.
• Shareholder yield, a measure of how much is returned to shareholders via dividends and share repurchases, for PKG comes in at 11.94% -- higher than that of 86.32% of stocks in our set.
• Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to PACKAGING CORP OF AMERICA are CTLT, DAR, LEG, RE, and TWNK.
• Visit PKG's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to www.packagingcorp.com.

PKG Valuation Summary

• In comparison to the median Consumer Cyclical stock, PKG's EV/EBIT ratio is 23.81% lower, now standing at 9.6.
• Over the past 243 months, PKG's EV/EBIT ratio has gone up 1.3.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for PKG.

PKG Growth Metrics

The 5 year cash and equivalents growth rate now stands at 219.26%.
• Its 3 year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at 42.09%.
• The 4 year cash and equivalents growth rate now stands at 219.26%.

Over the past 15 months, PKG's revenue has gone up $1,447,800,000.

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
2022-09-30	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
2021-06-30	7,095	989.1	636.5

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.