shares of packaging corp of america pkg inched 021 higher to 12923 thursday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 094 to 419805 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 034 to 3353591 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains packaging corp of america closed 3370 below its 52week high 16293 which the company achieved on june 8th the stock outperformed some of its competitors thursday as international paper co ip fell 022 to 3203 trading volume 398759 remained 347981 below its 50day average volume of 746740 editors note this story was autogenerated by automated insights an automation technology provider using data from dow jones and factset see our market data terms of use