Short interest in Packaging Corp of America (NYSE:PKG) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 3.87M to 5.23M. This put 7.65% of the company's publicly available shares short.

Based on the recent average volume of 943.04K shares traded per day, it would take 5.54 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.