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Packaging Corporation of America Q2 2025 earnings summary
Complete event summary combining all related documents: earnings call transcript, report, and slide presentation.Q2 2025 earnings summary24 Jul, 2025
Executive summary
Q2 2025 net income was $242M ($2.67/share); adjusted net income was $224M ($2.48/share), up from $199M ($2.20/share) in 2024, driven by higher prices/mix and lower fiber costs, partially offset by higher costs and lower volumes.
Net sales reached $2.17B–$2.2B, up from $2.08B–$2.1B year-over-year.
Adjusted EBITDA was $451M, up from $400M–$404M in Q2 2024.
Special items included $17M–$24.6M in gains from real estate/facility sales, offset by acquisition and closure costs.
Announced agreement to acquire Greif's containerboard business for $1.8B, expected to close by end of Q3 2025, subject to regulatory approval.
Financial highlights
Adjusted EPS increased by $0.28 year-over-year, reaching $2.48, driven by higher prices/mix, lower fiber costs, and a lower tax rate.
Gross profit for Q2 2025 was $483M, up from $438M year-over-year.
Operating income was $333.7M–$346M, up from $276M–$280M in Q2 2024.
Cash from operations was $300M in Q2; H1 2025 operating cash flow was $639M, up $100M year-over-year.
Cash and equivalents at quarter end were $955.9M; total liquidity was about $1.3B.
Outlook and guidance
Q3 2025 adjusted EPS expected at $2.80, excluding any impact from the Greif acquisition.
Higher corrugated shipments and containerboard production anticipated, with continued lower export sales due to global trade environment.
No scheduled maintenance outages in Q3; maintenance expenses expected to be lower, but freight costs will rise due to rail rate increases.
Capital investments for 2025 projected at $840M–$870M, with $24M for environmental compliance.
Explain drivers for Packaging segment's higher prices.
How will global trade affect export containerboard?
Detail special items impacting reported earnings.
How will Greif acquisition impact PCA's recycled mix?
Detail drivers behind better Q2 operating performance.
When is Greif acquisition expected to be completed?
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Packaging Corporation of America (PCA) operates as a paper & packaging company in the United States. The company's Packaging segment offers various corrugated products, such as conventional shipping containers used to protect and transport manufactured goods; multi-color boxes and displays that help to merchandise the packaged product in retail locations; and honeycomb protective packaging products. It also manufactures gypsum wallboard; and containerboard, which is used as a raw material by the company's packaging plants to produce corrugated products and by other manufacturers of paperboard products, including noncorrugated boxes, liquid or food containers, cartons, sacks, and envelopes. The company's Paper segment produces communication-based papers including coated paperboard used for packaging products such as cereal boxes and four-color printing for magazines and catalogs; whitetop liner used in the production of corrugated containers; recycled linerboard for use in the production of corrugated containers; and containerboard. As of December 31, 2018, it operated eight pulp mills, five paper mills, two converted facilities, two container plants, one heavy duty box plant, fifteen corrugated product plants, twenty-seven shipping/converting facilities.
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