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NYSE:PKG

Packaging Co. of America - PKG Competitors

$133.50
+6.18 (+4.85%)
(As of 03/20/2023 12:00 AM ET)
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Today's Range
$129.42
$134.24
50-Day Range
$127.32
$145.09
52-Week Range
$110.56
$168.50
Volume
961,150 shs
Average Volume
780,495 shs
Market Capitalization
$11.97 billion
P/E Ratio
12.13
Dividend Yield
3.75%
Price Target
$131.88

PKG vs. GPK, SON, GGG, NDSN, SWK, HUBB, AOS, LECO, CCK, and RRX

Should you be buying Packaging Co. of America stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Packaging Co. of America include Graphic Packaging (GPK), Sonoco Products (SON), Graco (GGG), Nordson (NDSN), Stanley Black & Decker (SWK), Hubbell (HUBB), A. O. Smith (AOS), Lincoln Electric (LECO), Crown (CCK), and Regal Rexnord (RRX). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.

Packaging Co. of America vs.

Graphic Packaging (NYSE:GPK) and Packaging Co. of America (NYSE:PKG) are both industrial products companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking and valuation.

Graphic Packaging has a beta of 0.96, meaning that its stock price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Packaging Co. of America has a beta of 0.88, meaning that its stock price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Packaging Co. of America has a net margin of 12.12% compared to Graphic Packaging's net margin of 5.53%. Graphic Packaging's return on equity of 36.32% beat Packaging Co. of America's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Graphic Packaging 5.53% 36.32% 6.97%
Packaging Co. of America 12.12% 27.00% 12.65%

Packaging Co. of America received 13 more outperform votes than Graphic Packaging when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.89% of users gave Graphic Packaging an outperform vote while only 60.63% of users gave Packaging Co. of America an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Graphic PackagingOutperform Votes
486
64.89%
Underperform Votes
263
35.11%
Packaging Co. of AmericaOutperform Votes
499
60.63%
Underperform Votes
324
39.37%

94.5% of Graphic Packaging shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.4% of Packaging Co. of America shares are held by institutional investors. 0.9% of Graphic Packaging shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.6% of Packaging Co. of America shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Graphic Packaging currently has a consensus target price of $27.83, suggesting a potential upside of 17.89%. Packaging Co. of America has a consensus target price of $131.88, suggesting a potential downside of 1.22%. Given Graphic Packaging's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Graphic Packaging is more favorable than Packaging Co. of America.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Graphic Packaging
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
9 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.10
Packaging Co. of America
2 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
1.83

Graphic Packaging pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Packaging Co. of America pays an annual dividend of $5.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. Graphic Packaging pays out 23.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Packaging Co. of America pays out 45.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Packaging Co. of America has increased its dividend for 12 consecutive years. Packaging Co. of America is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

Packaging Co. of America has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Graphic Packaging. Packaging Co. of America is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Graphic Packaging, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Graphic Packaging$9.44 billion0.77$522 million$1.6814.05
Packaging Co. of America$8.48 billion1.41$1.03 billion$11.0112.13

In the previous week, Graphic Packaging had 1 more articles in the media than Packaging Co. of America. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Graphic Packaging and 5 mentions for Packaging Co. of America. Graphic Packaging's average media sentiment score of 1.24 beat Packaging Co. of America's score of 0.52 indicating that Graphic Packaging is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Graphic Packaging
5 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Packaging Co. of America
2 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Summary

Graphic Packaging beats Packaging Co. of America on 13 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.

New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding PKG and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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PKG vs. The Competition

MetricPackaging Co. of AmericaPaperboard containers & boxes IndustryIndustrial SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$11.97B$5.34B$6.83B$14.04B
Dividend Yield3.93%3.33%2.11%3.94%
P/E Ratio12.137.8115.6018.75
Price / Sales1.410.914.069.96
Price / Cash7.865.3869.7924.71
Price / Book3.372.033.556.74
Net Income$1.03B$585.94M$368.87M$876.95M
7 Day Performance2.15%1.06%-2.11%-0.57%
1 Month Performance-5.33%-6.05%-9.18%-9.01%
1 Year Performance-14.68%-10.09%-8.67%-14.92%

Packaging Co. of America Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
GPK
Graphic Packaging
2.7797 of 5 stars
$23.42
-2.3%
$27.83
+18.8%
+16.3%$7.19B$9.44B13.9424,000Positive News
SON
Sonoco Products
2.6736 of 5 stars
$55.14
-4.3%
$65.83
+19.4%
-8.2%$5.39B$7.25B11.6822,000News Coverage
Gap Up
GGG
Graco
2.1947 of 5 stars
$67.17
-2.5%
$73.00
+8.7%
-5.4%$11.27B$2.14B25.164,000
NDSN
Nordson
2.3897 of 5 stars
$206.39
-2.7%
$255.20
+23.6%
-11.7%$11.82B$2.59B24.057,331
SWK
Stanley Black & Decker
2.8181 of 5 stars
$79.80
-0.7%
$99.09
+24.2%
-48.6%$12.21B$16.95B11.7554,200News Coverage
HUBB
Hubbell
1.8682 of 5 stars
$234.36
-4.7%
$230.00
-1.9%
+23.9%$12.56B$4.95B22.5116,300Gap Down
AOS
A. O. Smith
2.3037 of 5 stars
$66.67
-1.2%
$64.00
-4.0%
-3.8%$10.06B$3.75B44.4512,000
LECO
Lincoln Electric
2.0466 of 5 stars
$163.02
-3.8%
$164.25
+0.8%
+19.7%$9.39B$3.76B20.2512,000Positive News
CCK
Crown
2.6504 of 5 stars
$78.00
-4.1%
$97.73
+25.3%
-40.2%$9.37B$12.94B13.0726,000
RRX
Regal Rexnord
2.8626 of 5 stars
$139.48
-7.2%
$186.80
+33.9%
-15.9%$9.24B$5.22B19.1126,000Positive News
This page (NYSE:PKG) was last updated on 3/20/2023 by MarketBeat.com Staff