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

PKG POWR Grades

• PKG scores best on the Quality dimension, with a Quality rank ahead of 90.49% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for PKG is in Growth, which has been heading down over the past 178 days.
• PKG's current lowest rank is in the Sentiment metric (where it is better than 15.15% of US stocks).

PKG Stock Summary

• With a market capitalization of $11,419,766,362, PACKAGING CORP OF AMERICA has a greater market value than 85.9% of US stocks.
• In terms of volatility of its share price, PKG is more volatile than just 15.11% of stocks we're observing.
• Shareholder yield, a measure of how much is returned to shareholders via dividends and share repurchases, for PKG comes in at 8.27% -- higher than that of 80.23% of stocks in our set.
• Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to PACKAGING CORP OF AMERICA are TKR, HAIN, ATKR, AWI, and MMS.
• 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 price/earnings ratio is 12.4% lower, now standing at 11.3.
• Over the past 243 months, PKG's EV/EBIT ratio has gone down 7.2.

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.