shares of packaging corp of america pkg inched 065 higher to 12483 thursday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 099 to 422102 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 047 to 3306157 packaging corp of america closed 3810 below its 52week high 16293 which the company reached on june 8th the stock outperformed some of its competitors thursday as international paper co ip fell 092 to 2917 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