PKG Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Packaging Of America | NYSE:PKG)

Packaging Corp. of America is the third-largest containerboard and corrugated packaging manufacturer in the United States. It produces over 5 million tons of containerboard annually. The company's share of the domestic containerboard market is roughly 10%. PCA differentiates itself from larger competitors by focusing on smaller customers and operating with a high degree of flexibility.

Packaging Of America trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol PKG.

As of July 6, 2026, PKG stock price declined to $236.39 with 508,665 million shares trading.

PKG has a beta of 0.37, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. PKG has a correlation of 0.03 to the broad based SPY ETF.

PKG has a market cap of $21.05 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.

Last quarter Packaging Of America reported $2 billion in Revenue and $2.40 earnings per share. This fell short of revenue expectation by $-46 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.25.

In the last 3 years, PKG traded as high as $250.82 and as low as $127.70.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that PKG belongs to (by Net Assets): VTI, VOO, VO, IVV, SPY.

PKG has underperformed the market in the last year with a return of +19.7%, while SPY returned +22.3%. This shows that you would have done better investing in the overall market (through SPY) over the last year than in PKG shares. However, PKG has outperformed the market in the last 3 month and 2 week periods, returning +16.4% and +3.2%, while SPY returned +14.8% and +0.6%, respectively. This indicates PKG has been having a stronger performance recently.

PKG support price is $233.48 and resistance is $242.92 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that PKG shares will trade within this expected range on the day.