CoverageForm 410-K10-Q8-K13D13G13F

PKG · Packaging Corp of America - Financials

Annual line items from SEC XBRL filings, sourced from EDGAR's Company Facts API with fallback to the quarterly Financial Statement Data Sets. See issuer overview for Form 4 activity and 10-K signals.

Price · PKG

Income Statement

Line itemFY 2025FY 2024FY 2023FY 2022FY 2021FY 2020
Revenue$8.99B$8.38B$7.80B$8.48B$7.73B$6.66B
Cost of Revenue$7.10B$6.60B$6.10B$6.39B$5.86B$5.29B
Gross Profit$1.89B$1.78B$1.70B$2.09B$1.87B$1.37B
R&D----$14.50M$15.50M
SG&A$634.20M$610.30M$580.90M$608.60M$576.80M$539.60M
Total Operating Expenses-$71.50M$42.90M$61.30M$54.80M$50.70M
D&A$652.80M$525.60M$517.70M$456.80M$417.50M$410.00M
Operating Income$1.11B$1.10B$1.08B$1.42B$1.24B$723.90M
Interest Expense------
Income Tax$253.70M$259.30M$248.90M$335.00M$267.60M$171.70M
Net Income$774.10M$805.10M$765.20M$1.03B$841.10M$461.00M
EPS - Basic$8.61$8.97$8.52$11.08$8.87$4.86
EPS - Diluted$8.58$8.93$8.48$11.03$8.83$4.84

Balance Sheet

Line itemFY 2025FY 2024FY 2023FY 2022FY 2021FY 2020
Cash & Equivalents$529.00M$685.00M$648.00M$320.00M$618.70M$974.60M
Accounts Receivable$1.26B$1.14B$1.03B$1.03B$1.07B$832.40M
Inventory$1.24B$1.12B$1.01B$977.30M$902.50M$787.90M
Accounts Payable$471.40M$430.30M$402.40M$410.40M$452.40M$387.00M
Current Assets$3.21B$3.23B$3.25B$2.51B$2.73B$2.75B
Total Assets$10.73B$8.83B$8.68B$8.00B$7.84B$7.43B
Current Liabilities$1.02B$1.00B$1.27B$875.50M$884.80M$782.60M
Long-term Debt$3.97B$2.47B$2.47B$2.47B$2.47B$2.48B
Total Liabilities------
Stockholders' Equity$4.60B$4.40B$4.00B$3.67B$3.61B$3.25B
Retained Earnings$3.93B$3.78B$3.45B$3.19B$3.10B$2.84B

Cash Flow

Line itemFY 2025FY 2024FY 2023FY 2022FY 2021FY 2020
Operating Cash Flow$1.56B$1.19B$1.32B$1.50B$1.09B$1.03B
Investing Cash Flow($2.57B)($277.80M)($875.10M)($833.70M)($794.40M)($426.10M)
Financing Cash Flow$859.40M($876.40M)($112.00M)($960.00M)($655.60M)($311.60M)
CapEx$828.90M$669.70M$469.70M$824.20M$605.10M$421.20M
Free Cash Flow$728.60M$521.50M$845.40M$670.80M$489.00M$611.60M

Ratios

MetricFY 2025FY 2024FY 2023FY 2022FY 2021FY 2020
Profitability
Gross margin21.0%21.3%21.8%24.7%24.2%20.6%
Operating margin12.3%13.1%13.8%16.8%16.1%10.9%
EBITDA margin19.6%19.4%20.4%22.1%21.5%17.0%
Net margin8.6%9.6%9.8%12.1%10.9%6.9%
Free cash flow margin8.1%6.2%10.8%7.9%6.3%9.2%
FCF / Net income0.940.651.100.650.581.33
R&D / Revenue----0.2%0.2%
SG&A / Revenue7.1%7.3%7.4%7.2%7.5%8.1%
Effective tax rate24.7%24.4%24.5%24.5%24.1%27.1%
Return on assets7.2%9.1%8.8%12.9%10.7%6.2%
Return on equity16.8%18.3%19.1%28.1%23.3%14.2%
Return on invested capital9.7%12.1%12.5%17.5%15.5%9.2%
Liquidity
Current ratio3.173.232.572.863.093.51
Quick ratio1.942.101.771.752.072.51
Cash ratio0.520.680.510.370.701.25
Leverage
Debt / Equity0.860.560.620.670.690.76
Debt / Assets0.370.280.280.310.320.33
Debt / EBITDA2.251.521.551.321.492.19
Interest coverage------
Equity multiplier2.332.012.172.182.172.29
Liabilities / Assets------
Efficiency
Asset turnover0.840.950.901.060.990.90
Inventory turnover5.715.876.026.546.496.71
Days sales outstanding51d50d48d44d51d46d
Days inventory outstanding64d62d61d56d56d54d
Days payable outstanding24d24d24d23d28d27d
Cash conversion cycle91d88d85d77d79d73d
Valuation
P / E24.0x25.2x19.2x11.6x15.4x28.5x
P / B4.0x4.6x3.6x3.2x3.6x4.0x
P / S2.1x2.4x1.9x1.4x1.7x2.0x
EV / EBITDA12.5x13.5x10.3x7.5x8.9x12.8x
Growth
Revenue growth (YoY)7.2%7.4%-8.0%9.7%16.1%-4.4%
Revenue CAGR (3y)2.0%2.7%5.4%6.8%10.2%1.1%
Revenue CAGR (5y)6.2%3.8%6.2%5.6%6.0%3.0%
Gross profit growth (YoY)6.0%5.0%-18.7%11.6%36.8%-16.7%
Operating income growth (YoY)0.5%2.4%-24.3%14.4%71.5%-31.3%
Net income growth (YoY)-3.9%5.2%-25.7%22.4%82.5%-33.8%
EPS growth (YoY)-3.9%5.3%-23.1%24.9%82.4%-34.1%
EPS CAGR (3y)-8.0%0.4%20.6%14.5%4.2%-11.9%
EPS CAGR (5y)12.1%4.0%1.7%9.3%13.2%1.6%
FCF growth (YoY)39.7%-38.3%26.0%37.2%-20.0%-24.3%
FCF CAGR (5y)3.6%-8.4%6.1%5.5%-1.5%6.4%
Book value growth (YoY)4.4%10.2%9.0%1.7%11.1%5.7%

Sales by segment

From XBRL dimensional facts in the 10-K period ending 2025-12-31.

Business segments

$8.99B total
Packaging$8.29B · 92.3%
Paper$615.40M · 6.8%
Corporate And Other$80.00M · 0.9%

Product / service

$8.52B total
Trade$8.29B · 97.4%
Intersegment$154.10M · 1.8%
Fiber$71.40M · 0.8%

Geographic

$377.90M total
Foreign Operations$377.90M · 100.0%

Stability scores

Piotroski F-score

FY 2025 · 9-point quality

4/9
Neutral
  • Net income positive
  • Operating cash flow positive
  • ROA improved YoY
  • Cash flow > net income
  • Long-term debt decreased
  • Current ratio improved
  • No share dilution
  • Gross margin improved
  • Asset turnover improved

Peer comparison

Same SIC group: Paperboard Containers & Boxes

CompanyRevenue (last FY)Net marginROE
SON$7.52B13.3%27.8%
SW$31.18B2.2%3.8%
GPK$8.62B5.2%13.3%
WRK---
DSS$20.76M-115.3%2876.1%

Comparing PACKAGING CORP OF AMERICA against the 5 most active filers in the same SIC group.

Dividends

$5.00/share trailing 12 months · 0.0% YoY

Ex-datePer share
Mar 13, 2026$1.2500
Dec 15, 2025$1.2500
Sep 15, 2025$1.2500
Jun 13, 2025$1.2500
Mar 14, 2025$1.2500
Dec 20, 2024$1.2500
Sep 16, 2024$1.2500
Jun 14, 2024$1.2500
Mar 14, 2024$1.2500
Dec 15, 2023$1.2500
Sep 22, 2023$1.2500
Jun 14, 2023$1.2500
Mar 14, 2023$1.2500
Dec 16, 2022$1.2500
Sep 30, 2022$1.2500
Jun 14, 2022$1.2500
Mar 14, 2022$1.0000
Dec 17, 2021$1.0000
Sep 14, 2021$1.0000
Jun 14, 2021$1.0000
Mar 12, 2021$1.0000
Dec 18, 2020$1.0000
Sep 14, 2020$0.7900
Jun 12, 2020$0.7900