Packaging Corp Of America dividend and valuation
$229.31Change from previous close: +0.34%Absolute change: +$0.77
Valuation
Packaging Corp Of America paid $5.50 per share in dividends over the last 12 months (yield 2.4%). Last ex-dividend date: September 15, 2026. The P/E ratio is 29.8. The average price target of 10 analysts is $259.20.
Data as of October 5, 2026
Valuation multiples
- Market cap
- $20.43B
- Enterprise value
- $24.05B
- P/E (trailing 12 months)
- 29.8
- Forward P/E
- 17.5
- PEG
- 1.47
- Price/book
- 4.36
- Price/sales
- 2.14
- EV/EBITDA
- 12.0
- EV/revenue
- 2.52
Profitability and growth
- Gross margin
- 21.4%
- Operating margin
- 13.1%
- Net margin
- 7.3%
- ROE
- 14.9%
- ROA
- 8.3%
- ROIC
- 11.9%
- Revenue growth (year over year)
- 14.7%
- Earnings growth (year over year)
- -19.5%
Financial health
- Total cash
- $593.8M
- Total debt
- $4.4B
- Debt/equity
- 0.94
- Current ratio
- 2.94
- Quick ratio
- 1.77
- Altman Z-Score
- 3.80
- Piotroski F-Score
- 4.00
Dividends
- Annual dividend per share
- $5.50
- Dividend yield
- 2.4%
- Payout ratio
- 71.5%
- Ex-dividend date
- September 15, 2026
Analysts and estimates
- Average price target
- $259.20
- Median price target
- $265.00
- High price target
- $320.00
- Low price target
- $167.00
- Analysts with a price target
- 10
- Consensus
- Buy
- Forward EPS
- $13.14
- EPS estimate, current year
- $10.46
Shares and trading
- Beta
- 0.77
- Average volume
- 619.13K
- Shares outstanding
- 89.1M
- Float
- 86.97M
- Institutional ownership
- 100.1%
- Insider ownership
- 1.6%
- Short interest (% of float)
- 4.4%
- Short ratio (days)
- 5.91