PKGPackaging Corporation of America
Valuation
What PKG's price assumes
Packaging Corporation of America trades at 30.8× earnings against 17.9× for the median Packaging & Containers name.
Trailing P/E · Packaging & Containers median 17.9 · 1.72× the Packaging & Containers median
- Price / sales
- 2.26
Price / sales · today's price, trailing year to Sep 30, 2026
- Free cash flow yield
- 3.1%
Free cash flow yield · Packaging & Containers median 5.5%
- Growth the price implies
- +12%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for +12% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; the business has delivered −5.9% a year over the last three.
Details›
- Price / booktoday's price, trailing year to Sep 30, 2026
- 4.63
- EV / EBITtoday's price, trailing year to Sep 30, 2026
- 23.3
- EV / salestoday's price, trailing year to Sep 30, 2026
- 2.60
- Basic Materials median P/E201 names
- 20.6
- Packaging & Containers median P/E18 names
- 17.9
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $687M
- Market capitalisation89.1 million shares, counted Oct 30, 2026
- $22.2B
- 3-year revenue growth
- +7.8%
- 3-year free cash flow growth
- −5.9%
Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.
Against its own past
Its multiples now against their own history, and how much of the price move came from earnings rather than the multiple.
Packaging & Containers
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