shares of packaging corp of america pkg inched 056 higher to 13596 thursday on what proved to be an allaround great trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 075 to 396351 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 055 to 3378148 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains packaging corp of america closed 3254 below its 52week high 16850 which the company achieved on april 21st the stock outperformed some of its competitors thursday as international paper co ip rose 006 to 3617 trading volume 556782 remained 187316 below its 50day average volume of 744098 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