BUY PKG · April McClain Delaney
Packaging Corporation of America Common Stock (PKG)
Routine managed-account rebalancing
| Inside their committee's jurisdiction |
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0/32 |
| Isolated decision, not a bulk rebalance |
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19/22 |
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Small, thinly-followed company
Nobody needs inside information to buy a mega-cap.
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5/10 |
| Member's own account |
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0/8 |
| Committee chair or ranking member |
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0/8 |
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A name they had never held before
A first purchase is a decision; the ninth purchase of the same holding is a standing order.
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0/8 |
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Unusually large for this member
Against their own median trade, not an absolute threshold - and capped, because trades beyond 3x did worse, not better.
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0/6 |
| Position size |
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0/3 |
| Leveraged instrument (option) |
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0/3 |
A high grade is not an allegation. Every input is public, and buying into an industry you work on daily is ordinary expertise. What the trade actually returned is deliberately excluded from this score and shown separately below.
It is also not a forecast. Measured across every settled trade, A-graded ones did not beat E-graded ones to any significant degree — the method page prints the table. This score says a trade looks like a decision rather than administration, and nothing more.
The filing it came from
filed in 12 days Inside two weeks - most of the following year was still available to anyone reading the filing.
Still held, as far as the filings show. No disclosed sale of this name from this account since the purchase. A sale inside its 45-day disclosure window would look exactly the same, so this is the absence of a filing rather than evidence of a position.
Not in the strategy. Either this purchase falls outside the member's committee jurisdiction, or the security has no usable price history to trade against.
This filing disclosed 24 transactions in total, of which 4 share this trade date (24 Apr 2026).
Filed 06 May 2026 · source PDF
Price
52-week range $188.15 – $257.43. The marker is the entry: the first market open after this filing became public.
Packaging Corporation of America
Packaging Corporation of America manufactures and sells containerboard and uncoated freesheet (UFS) paper products in North America. The company operates through Packaging and Paper segments. The Packaging segment offers various linerboard and corrugated packaging products, such as conventional shipping containers used to protect and transport manufactured goods; multi-color boxes and displays that help to merchandis…
| Sector | Consumer Cyclical |
| Industry | Packaging & Containers |
| Analyst range | $167 – $312 |
| Employees | 16,800 |
| Instrument | ST |
| Jurisdiction tags | unclassified |
Outside this member's committee jurisdiction (aerospace, agriculture, commodities, technology).
Expressing this with options
An illustration, not a recommendation: the nearest listed expiry to a twelve-month horizon, struck near the money. Chains are live — Yahoo publishes no historical chains, so this is priced today, not when the filing was made, and the move it describes may already have happened.
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Outcome
| Held | This trade | S&P 500 | Alpha |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1m | -1.9% | +0.3% | -2.2% |
| 3m | +12.1% | +4.8% | +7.2% |
| now 3.2 mo | +13.3% | +6.0% | +7.3% |
| 6m | — | — | — |
| 12m 1yr | — | — | — |
| 18m | — | — | — |
| 24m | — | — | — |
| 36m | — | — | — |
| 48m | — | — | — |
| 60m 5yr | — | — | — |
Measured from the first open after disclosure — the earliest anyone reading this could have acted. The highlighted now row sits at its true place in the sequence, so where it falls tells you how long the position has run. The last 7 rows are blank because those windows have not closed yet: this trade was entered 07 May 2026, so anything longer than that is still running.
Other congressional trades in PKG
| Grade | Date | Member | Side | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| E | 06 May 2026 | April McClain Delaney | purchase | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| E | 29 Apr 2026 | April McClain Delaney | purchase | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| E | 20 Mar 2026 | April McClain Delaney | purchase | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| D | 17 Mar 2026 | April McClain Delaney | purchase | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| E | 18 Dec 2025 | Julie Johnson | sale | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| E | 13 Nov 2025 | Julie Johnson | sale partial | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| E | 14 Aug 2025 | Julie Johnson | sale partial | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| E | 04 Aug 2025 | Julie Johnson | purchase | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| E | 25 Jul 2025 | Julie Johnson | purchase | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| D | 22 Jul 2025 | Julie Johnson | purchase | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| E | 04 Sep 2024 | John James | sale | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| E | 02 Jul 2024 | Kathy Manning | purchase | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| E | 23 Jan 2024 | Kathy Manning | sale partial | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| E | 28 Apr 2023 | Kathy Manning | purchase | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| E | 28 Apr 2023 | Kathy Manning | purchase | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| E | 27 Jul 2022 | Kathy Manning | purchase | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| E | 27 Jul 2022 | Kathy Manning | purchase | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| E | 15 Jan 2021 | Kathy Manning | purchase | $15,001 - $50,000 |
| E | 15 Jan 2021 | Kathy Manning | purchase | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| E | 02 Apr 2020 | Thomas R Carper | sale | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| E | 02 Apr 2020 | Thomas R Carper | sale | $1,001 - $15,000 |
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