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 August 28, 2026, PKG stock price declined to $240.39 with 391,352 million shares trading.

PKG has a beta of 0.03, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. PKG has a correlation of 0.00 to the broad based SPY ETF.

PKG has a market cap of $21.40 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.

Last quarter Packaging Of America reported $2 billion in Revenue and $2.35 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $23 million and met earnings estimates .

In the last 3 years, PKG traded as high as $259.98 and as low as $143.82.

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 price return of +13.4% while the SPY ETF gained +19.7%. However, in the short term, PKG had mixed performance relative to the market. It has outperformed in the last 3 months, returning +10.9% vs +2.2% return in SPY. But in the last 2 weeks, PKG shares have been beat by the market, returning -5.9% compared to an SPY return of -0.9%.

PKG support price is $240.18 and resistance is $247.20 (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.