Packaging Corp of America (PKG)

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Packaging Corp of America's filings since 2017 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

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Packaging Corp of America's 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $5.8 billion in fiscal 2016 to $9.0 billion in fiscal 2025, up 5% a year; it rose in 6 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 8% from fiscal 2022 to fiscal 2023; net income was positive in 10 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Packaging Corp of America's diluted share count shrank about 1.1% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 38% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 6 sales and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-09-30 (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Packaging Corp of America earned about 17 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 18 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 57 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 0.1% over the year (the filed statements).

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Packaging Corp of America's standing among 19 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $9.0 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 19% by size; a net margin of 8.6% ranks in the top 18%; revenue growth of 2% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 39% (its annual reports).

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Packaging Corp of America's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Kowlzan, Mark W (Chairman & CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2011-02-24, 15.7 years (top 4% of its family); the 17 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 14.5 years (top 4%); 4 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 17 people in charge now (top 30%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

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Packaging Corp of America's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $529 million against debt of $4.0 billion leaves -32.1% of its assets as net cash, bottom 45% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 8.1% of revenue (top 24%); a gross margin of 21% (top 41%) (its annual report).

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Packaging Corp of America's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 2% a year over the last three filed years against 5% over all 10, slowing (top 39% of its family); the newest year grew 7.2% (top 34%); research spending grew 0.2% a year (top 50%); capital spending grew 0.2% a year (top 50%) (its annual reports). Packaging Corp of America reported 3 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Packaging at $8.3 billion (92%), Paper at $615 million (7%), Corporate and Other at $80 million (1%); 2 of 3 grew against the year before (its annual report).

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Packaging Corp of America's newest year against its own record: revenue of $9.0 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 7.8% above the $8.3 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 42% of its family); net income of $774 million against a prior three-year average of $867 million (top 47%); a net margin of 8.6% against 10.5% before (bottom 47%) (its annual reports).