Packaging Corporation of America
General ticker "PKG" information:
- Sector: Materials
- Industry: Containers & Packaging
- Capitalization: $18.6B (TTM average)
Packaging Corporation of America follows the US Stock Market performance with the rate: 37.4%.
Estimated limits based on current volatility of 1.9%: low 195.37$, high 202.74$
Factors to consider:
- Company included in S&P500 list
- Company pays dividends (quarterly): last record date 2025-09-15, amount 1.25$ (Y2.54%)
- Total employees count: 15400 (+3.4%) as of 2024
- Countries other than US accounted for 5.3% of revenue in the fiscal year ended 2024-12-31
- Top business risk factors: Economic downturns and volatility, Customer concentration, Trade policy changes, Tax law changes, Fuel price fluctuations
- Price in estimated range
- Earnings for 9 months up through Q3 are below our estimates
Stock Forecast*
* forecast is subjective and experimental, should not be used for any investment decisions
Long term estimates were made for the period from 2024-12-31 to 2026-12-31
- 2024-12-31 to 2025-12-31 estimated range: [180.73$, 241.61$]
- 2025-12-31 to 2026-12-31 estimated range: [179.06$, 243.20$]
Financial Metrics affecting the PKG estimates:
- Negative: with PPE of 25.2 at the end of fiscal year the price was very high
- Positive: 7.86 < Operating profit margin, % of 13.14
- Positive: 5.52 < Industry operating cash flow per share per price (median), % of 8.62
- Positive: Industry earnings per price (median), % of 5.43 > 4.43
- Negative: Investing cash flow per share per price, % of -1.37 <= -0.66
- Positive: Return on assets ratio (scaled to [-100,100]) of 8.35 > 6.04
- Positive: 2.97 < Industry operating profit margin (median), % of 6.18
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Financial data
| YTD | 2022-12-31 | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating Revenue | $8,478.00MM | $7,802.40MM | $8,383.30MM |
| Operating Expenses | $7,057.30MM | $6,727.30MM | $7,282.00MM |
| Operating Income | $1,420.70MM | $1,075.10MM | $1,101.30MM |
| Non-Operating Income | $-55.90MM | $-61.00MM | $-36.90MM |
| Interest Expense | $70.40MM | $53.30MM | $41.40MM |
| Income(Loss) | $1,364.80MM | $1,014.10MM | $1,064.40MM |
| Taxes | $335.00MM | $248.90MM | $259.30MM |
| Profit(Loss)* | $1,029.80MM | $765.20MM | $805.10MM |
| Stockholders Equity | $3,667.10MM | $3,997.30MM | $4,404.00MM |
| Inventory | $977.30MM | $1,013.10MM | $1,124.90MM |
| Assets | $8,003.80MM | $8,681.10MM | $8,833.20MM |
| Operating Cash Flow | $1,495.00MM | $1,315.10MM | $1,191.20MM |
| Capital expenditure | $824.20MM | $469.70MM | $669.70MM |
| Investing Cash Flow | $-833.70MM | $-875.10MM | $-277.80MM |
| Financing Cash Flow | $-960.00MM | $-112.00MM | $-876.40MM |
| Earnings Per Share** | $11.16 | $8.59 | $9.04 |
* Profit(Loss) attributable to entity.
** EPS are Split Adjusted, recent splits may be reflected with a delay.