Packaging Corp Of America (NYSE:PKG) currently has a daily average trading volume of 930.67K but it saw 743143 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 17.30B USD, the company’s current market price of $192.22 came falling about -0.83 while comparing to the previous closing price of $193.82. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $250.82 and as low as $172.71. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $191.63 while lowest mark touched by it was $194.65.
The company’s shares got several price updates from the analyst firms in past one month and most recent of them is from the Wells Fargo which downgraded the stock as “Equal Weight” in its note to investors issued on May 09, 2025, recommending a price target of $180 for it. Jefferies upgraded its recommendation for the stock as a “Buy” from “Hold” on December 18, 2024 while assigning a price target range of $215-$280. Wells Fargo issued its recommendations for the stock as it upgraded the price target for the stock in the range of between $187 and $191.
Over the week, PKG’s stock price is moving -0.70% down while it is 3.13% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is -14.62% down and over the past year, the stock is showing an upside performance of 6.65%.
The company is expected to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2025-Apr-21, for which analysts forecasted an EPS of 2.42 while estimate for next year EPS is 10.24. In next quarter, company is expected to be making quarterly sales of $2.28B as analysts are expecting the sales for current fiscal year at $8.85B and seeing the company making $9.15B in sales next year. Moreover, analysts are in estimates of $2.18B for current-quarter revenue.
Currently, Packaging Corp Of America’s total number of outstanding shares is 89.93M with 1.46% of that held by the insiders while 92.57% of its common stock has been owned by the institutions. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 11.86% and return on equity (ROE) at 20.07%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 20.12 while having a 17.48 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 0.86. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 3.84 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 2.02. Its return on asset (ROA) is 9.60% on average.
