Growth Metrics

Packaging Corp Of America (PKG) EBIT Margin (2016 - 2025)

Packaging Corp Of America (PKG) has disclosed EBIT Margin for 17 consecutive years, with 30.58% as the latest value for Q4 2025.

  • On a quarterly basis, EBIT Margin fell 376.0% to 30.58% in Q4 2025 year-over-year; TTM through Dec 2025 was 2.4%, a 27.0% decrease, with the full-year FY2025 number at 2.4%, down 27.0% from a year prior.
  • EBIT Margin was 30.58% for Q4 2025 at Packaging Corp Of America, down from 14.03% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, EBIT Margin ranged from a high of 18.58% in Q2 2022 to a low of 42.77% in Q4 2022.
  • A 5-year average of 7.59% and a median of 13.86% in 2023 define the central range for EBIT Margin.
  • Peak YoY movement for EBIT Margin: crashed -6018bps in 2022, then soared 5626bps in 2023.
  • Packaging Corp Of America's EBIT Margin stood at 17.41% in 2021, then plummeted by -346bps to 42.77% in 2022, then soared by 132bps to 13.49% in 2023, then plummeted by -299bps to 26.82% in 2024, then decreased by -14bps to 30.58% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for PKG's EBIT Margin are 30.58% (Q4 2025), 14.03% (Q3 2025), and 15.37% (Q2 2025).