Is the price fair?
What PKG's price assumes
Packaging Corporation of America trades at 28.2× earnings against 18.0× for the median Packaging & Containers name, more expensive than its own group.
28.2
Trailing P/E · Packaging & Containers median 18.0 · 1.57× the median: the market pays up for this one
- Price / sales
- 2.04
Price / sales · as of 2026-Q1
- Free cash flow yield
- 3.4%
Free cash flow yield · Packaging & Containers median 4.4%
- Growth the price implies
- +11%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for +11% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; the business has delivered −1.1% a year over the last three.
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- Price / book2026-Q1
- 4.09
- EV / EBIT2026-Q1
- 20.7
- EV / sales2026-Q1
- 2.43
- Basic Materials median P/E159 names
- 22.3
- Packaging & Containers median P/E15 names
- 18.0
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $702M
- Market capitalisation
- $20.4B
- 3-year revenue growth
- +3.5%
- 3-year free cash flow growth
- −1.1%
| Method | Per share |
|---|---|
| Its own P/E history, lower quartile | $96.36 |
| Its own P/E history, median | $119.66 |
| Its own P/E history, upper quartile | $163.45 |
| 52-week range | $188.15 – $257.47 |
| Today | $231.96 |
Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.
Packaging & Containers
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