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Packaging Corp Of America

  • PKG
  • NYSE
  • Industrial Products
  • Latest 50.39
  • Currency US$
  • Change 0.16
  • Percent Change 0.319 %
  • Volume 857,730
  • Tue May 21, 2013 4:02 PM EDT NYSE data delayed 15 minutes.
Average recommendation
12 Analysts Reporting (Nov 07, 2012)
Strong Buy
Buy
Hold
Underperform
Sell
Change over time
Analyst rating breakdown
  Latest 4 weeks ago 2 months ago 3 months ago Last Year
Strong Buy 2 1 2 3 7
Buy 0 0 0 1 0
Hold 9 10 8 7 3
Underperform 1 1 1 0 1
Sell 0 0 0 0 0

As of Wed May 22, 2013 1:37 AM EDT
The consensus recommendation is the average buy, sell or hold rating for a company, based on a survey of brokerage equity analysts by Zacks Investment Research. We update the ratings daily.

Earnings & Estimates

Short Term
    Q2/11 Q3/11 Q4/11 Q1/12 Q2/12 Q3/12 Q4/12 Q1/13 Q2/13 Q3/13  

Actual quarterly earnings for the past eight quarters and estimated for the next two quarters
Estimated EPS ($)   0.34 0.42 0.37 0.40 0.46 0.56 0.62 0.56 0.63 0.87  
Actual EPS   0.39 0.43 0.40 0.42 0.49 0.55 0.61 0.62 -- --  
Surprise (%)   14.7 2.4 8.1 5.0 6.5 -1.8 -1.6 10.7 -- --  
Est. % Chg from Prior Year   0.0 -0.3 -0.2 0.1 0.3 0.3 0.5 0.5 28.1 59.0  
{#} Analysts   6 7 8 10 11 11 11 9 8 7  
Date of Earnings   Jul 18 Oct 17 Jan 23 Apr 17 Jul 16 Oct 15 Jan 22 Apr 22 Jul 15 Oct 21  

Data provided by Zacks Investment Research.

Long Term
    2013 2014  

Estimated annual earnings for the next
two years
Estimated EPS ($)   2.94 3.44  
Actual EPS   2.06 2.94  
Surprise (%)   -- --  
Est. % Chg from Prior Year   42.9 16.8  
{#} Analysts   10 10  
Date of Earnings   -- --  

Trends & Revisions

Earnings Per Share Trend
  Current 7-Days Ago 30-Days Ago 60-Days Ago 90-Days Ago
  Mean Mean Mean Mean Mean
Current Quarter (ends Jun 2013) 0.63 0.63 0.70 0.71 0.68
Next Quarter (ends Sep 2013) 0.87 0.87 0.89 0.81 0.75
Current Fiscal Year (ends Dec 2013) 2.94 2.94 2.96 2.82 2.69
Next Fiscal Year (ends Dec 2014) 3.44 3.44 3.39 3.22 3.06

Data provided by Zacks Investment Research.

Earnings Revisions
Last 7 Days Last 30 Days
Up Revs Down Revs Up Revs Down Revs
0 0 0 6
0 0 0 5
0 0 2 5
0 0 2 3