Packaging Corporation of America has grown revenue 5.9% a year over three years and 6.1% a year over five, with earnings per share compounding at −6.7%. Revenue growth, 3-year annual rate: +5.9% (Packaging & Containers median +6.0%). Revenue growth, 5-year rate: +6.1%, growth has slowed since the five-year average. Earnings per share, 3-year rate: −6.7%, earnings lagged revenue: the growth is costing something. Years of annual history on file: 18, FY2008 to FY2025, as filed.

PKGPackaging Corporation of America

Basic Materials

$230.65+9.8% 1Y

$230.65

$188.1552 weeks$257.47

Is it growing?

Mixed

Neither accelerating nor breaking down: revenue growing +10% year on year, but earnings down −23% year on year and operating margin narrowing (−3.5 points).

1 good, 2 to watch

Revenue trend+10% in a year

Trailing-twelve-month revenue vs a year earlier, from the company's own filings. Five-year pace: +6% a year.

Earnings trend−23% in a year

Trailing-twelve-month earnings per share against a year earlier. Growing slower than revenue, so the growth is costing something.

Margin direction−3.5 points operating

Trailing-twelve-month operating margin, 10.9% now against 14.4% a year earlier.

All from SEC EDGAR, as of Jun 30, 2026.

Against the whole market›

Percentile against every name Ryufin tracks. Higher is better; the tick marks the middle of the market. Context, not one of the checks above.

Revenue growth, 3 yearsmiddle of the market

Where this answer is blind. These are trailing numbers from the filings, not forecasts: an acquisition or a one-off year can flatter them, so check the quarters.

Is PKG growing?

Packaging Corporation of America has grown revenue 5.9% a year over three years and 6.1% a year over five, with earnings per share compounding at −6.7%.

+5.9%

Revenue growth, 3-year annual rate · Packaging & Containers median +6.0% · steady growth, ahead of inflation · compounded from trailing twelve-month revenue

Revenue growth, 5-year rate: +6.1%
Revenue growth, 5-year rate · +5.9% over three · growth has slowed since the five-year average
Earnings per share, 3-year rate: −6.7%
Earnings per share, 3-year rate · revenue +5.9% · earnings lagged revenue: the growth is costing something
Years of annual history on file: 18
Years of annual history on file · FY2008 to FY2025, as filed